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Sue Bird: Running it back, We Are BG, and what's next for the WNBA

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4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Sue Bird joins The Players’ Pod to talk all things WNBA: where the league should expand, how players are handling Brittney Griner’s detainment, whether this is actually Bird’s last season, how the league has changed and how it needs to evolve, and what it takes to win a Championship in three different decades. To learn more & get involved in the campaign to bring Brittney Griner home, visit WeAreBG.org

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0:00.0

What took me by surprise was that in our last game, which was a playoff game that we lost at home

0:06.0

The fans started chanting one more year

0:09.1

And so it was just yeah, it was like it was crazy. Never like I never thought I just didn't think anyone really knew that I was thinking about

0:17.5

You know like why would they know that this was like wait a minute is my play saying that like what's going on?

0:22.6

No, that's always the first question or mine. You're like, of course. Are you guys saying I should? Yeah, like is this a hint or?

0:30.0

Super is super and that's really all the introduction she needs in her legendary basketball career

0:41.6

Sue has won everything you could possibly win. She's a two-time NCAA champion

0:47.9

four-time WMDA champion five-time Olympic gold medalist five-time Euro League champion

0:55.2

twelve-time WMBA all-star and five-time all WMBA first team

1:01.3

Sue is also the WMBA's all-time assist leader and is the only player in WMBA history to have a one-a-chamming chip

1:09.8

in three decades different decades like that's incredible to me. So Sue welcome to the show

1:15.4

Thank you. I'm excited. You threw in the Euro League

1:19.3

We like to talk about our WMBA stars going overseas and playing what that means because I feel like we get a lot of mixed reactions and it's actually something we'll talk about later but

1:35.2

What a freaking resume

1:39.0

Like did you ever when you started out where you're like, I'm gonna do a lot of cool shit

1:44.1

No

1:46.8

Not at all. I think the interesting thing I was just talking about this the other day

1:51.2

um

1:52.4

Like me and D were similar ages we get grouped a lot a lot of things. We've had a very similar

1:58.0

career path and in a lot of ways we're kind of the first two to live

2:03.4

This what we know now as like a woman's basketball life, right?

2:07.9

Get drafted right out of college go pro play overseas play in the national team

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