Sue Bird on Life After Basketball, What It’s Like Playing Overseas, and Where the WNBA Is Headed | Real Ones

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🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Logan and Raja are joined by four-time WNBA champion Sue Bird to discuss what it’s like to be done playing basketball after such a storied career and how she’s been spending her time now that she’s retired (2:43). Next, she explains to the guys what it was like playing women’s basketball overseas and how it compared to playing in the States (15:00). Later, she talks about how important the WNBA is for aspiring young players and where the league is going (35:30). Finally, they close out with their Real Ones of the Week (59:19). Hosts: Logan Murdock and Raja Bell Guest: Sue Bird Associate Producer: Jonathan Kermah Production Assistant: Kai Grady Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's popping everybody? This is Logan Murdoch from Real Winds and I have some big news to share on Saturday, February 18th
0:05.7	The ringer NBA show will be hitting the road for all star weekend for a live show in Salt Lake City
0:10.8	You heard that right. We are taping the pod in front of a live audience in Salt Lake next month and we want you to join us
0:17.6	Pull up on us at the state room in the heart of downtown Salt Lake
0:20.6	You can grab your tickets now at the stateroom.com. That's the state room.com
0:25.0	Door is open at nine o'clock show was at 10. It's gonna be a 21 and up event
0:30.0	Come hang with the gang and chat mid season updates drive preview and even have a Q&A with us
0:35.3	Space is limited so grab your tickets while they last at the stateroom.com or click the link in the description of this show. Hope to see y'all in there
0:42.2	What's popping Logan Murdoch here at Roger Bell there at Roger back to back weeks bro. We're not fucking around
0:59.2	We got we got another big big guests in the building years in the making
1:05.4	We get to the name of the second. Let's get to the bio. We got a four-time champ. All right
1:09.7	We got a five-time Olympic gold medalist. There's like five more gold medals in there
1:15.2	But we're talking about the Olympics only all right. We got someone who was thriving in retirement now here popping all right
1:21.6	I'll hear living her best life. You know who we got Roger. We got Sue burn in the mother fucking building
1:27.1	Hmm so Sue how you doing?
1:29.1	I'm good. How are you guys?
1:31.8	We're good. I forgot Logan the most important part bro like one of the Walt Whitman most finest
1:37.1	I
1:39.1	Burlington coat factory and like
1:44.1	I don't even know if it had a cheesecake. It didn't have a cheesecake back then
1:48.8	I definitely didn't have a cheesecake. It had a little like Wilson's leather goods
1:52.7	Which one are you talking about for the viewers that are the listeners that don't know yet you guys have had a prepod conversation about
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