Sue Bird

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Sue Bird's one of the greatest basketball players of this generation. A 4x WNBA Champion and 4x Olympic Gold Medal winner, she continues to get buckets and drop dimes at the young age of 40. Sue Bird and Tom Brady. Elite at any age. How does she do it? She shares her secrets on the show. And congrats to Sue on her latest WNBA contract, her recent engagement to Megan Rapinoe, and her ongoing work as VP of the WNBAPA, fighting to close the gap on gender inequality, social injustice, and creating a better career environment for women in sports. Thanks to our Presented By partners, Public.com and Outsystems for their support of the pod. You can start with $10 of free stock by registering today at Public.com/suitingup. And for more info on ways you can tie your business to Outsystems like the PLL did during our Championship Series, visit Outsystems.com.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? Welcome back. This is an all-new episode of
0:05.7	Sooting Up, presented by public.com and OutSystems. And it's episode two of season three.
0:11.1	I'm your host, Paul Ravel. Today we've got one of the goats. 18 championships. We
0:17.4	tallied from our time at Yukon to play in overseas in Russia. Four WMBA titles,
0:22.2	most recently in the Wubble, a world and Olympics. Today I host Sue Bird. I've
0:29.0	known Sue for a number of years now. And I remember when I launched the show in
0:32.4	2017, I was like, this is the prototype guest. Her range is incredible. Hopefully
0:38.1	you'll hear that and walk away from the show as we discuss topics like playing
0:42.7	your best ball at 40 and winning, which she did and is doing. She just signed a
0:48.0	huge new contract. We talk about leadership and behind-the-scenes conversations
0:51.8	where their peers during the WMBA led social justice activism, where their
0:56.4	ratings on television went up. We talk about the great debate, MJ versus LeBron. Her
1:03.1	time in these rigorous practices with all-time coach Gina Ariama at Yukon. We
1:09.3	discuss gender equality in sports. We talk about her Instagram engagement, but
1:14.0	not that type of engagement in actual wedding engagement with her partner Megan
1:18.2	Rapinoe and the hoop dreams overseas of taking million dollar contracts to
1:23.1	how the business of the WMBA will succeed. And final note, we recorded this
1:27.6	pot at the end of 2020 and we referenced Atlanta Dream owner Kelly Lefler, who
1:31.8	spoke out against Sue in the WMBA's player activism on behalf of Brianna Taylor
1:36.8	during those games. She held a Senate seat in 2020. They went to a runoff in
1:41.6	January and ended up losing that seat in Georgia. As it relates to the dream,
1:45.5	the league said in a recent statement that quote, we understand a sale of the
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