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South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Comedy, Sports, Society & Culture

4.915K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The world of sports has been forever changed by trailblazers like Napheesa Collier and Nancy Lieberman. Last week, Collier's comments criticizing WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert and the league's lack of accountability set the sports world ablaze and just the latest in her ever-growing list of accomplishments leading the game forward. "Queen Phee", the NCAA champion, four-time WNBA All-Star, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, and co-founder of the empowering women's basketball league, Unrivaled, doesn't shy away from revealing to Dan Le Batard her fears of an early retirement after becoming a mother. Napheesa also shares why she was so determined to create Unrivaled after being fed up with how the WNBA has let its players and fans down with its "tone-deaf and dismissive" leadership. Then, the legend, Nancy Lieberman, also talks with Dan about how women’s basketball has reached new heights, looking back on how far the game has come… and how brightly the stars of the current day – Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark, A’ja Wilson, and more – shine when the spotlight is finally put on them. The following are excerpts from episodes of South Beach Sessions originally recorded on March 5, 2025 and June 30, 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Surely in the history of South Beach sessions, we have never had anyone tougher than this human being right here, Nancy Lieberman, two-time Olympian, two-time Hall of Famer, Big Three Coach, champion,

0:40.6

and a pioneer, a Trailblazer. Is this how you became tough, though? Like, obviously,

0:45.5

basketball has something to do with it, but where are the places where you can say, no, that's what

0:51.3

made me strong? Those are the things that made me who I am.

0:55.3

I don't know if I can define strong, but I can define what was acceptable to me and what

1:01.5

was not acceptable to me. And I knew I am not going to live this life. This is not how I'm

1:08.5

going to live. I don't know how I'm going to get from here to here

1:10.9

but I think sports is going to do this for me

1:14.2

and as one thing

1:15.6

playing in the Olympics in high school

1:18.5

or then getting a college scholarship

1:21.4

player of the year in college basketball

1:24.3

and then you know like the

1:26.9

you know the Dick Sh's taking me under his

1:31.0

wing and coming to Old Dominion and making sure that he had tabs on me. I'd come home. He'd say,

1:39.3

you're going to come, we're going to, this is what we're going to do jeremy shapp right on this knee at lunch a year

1:47.5

old two years old dick was very instrumental in in just making sure that i was protected

1:53.6

we're learning and uh he would introduce me to so many people he's, you need to do this and you need to come to

2:01.9

this event. And again, I don't have, I can't tell you why. Like, I want to do a book that says,

2:10.7

how do you know, dot, dot, dot. How did you know Dick Shapp? How do you know Muhammad Ali? How are you

2:16.0

friends with Kevin Costner? How are you friends with Warren Buffett?

2:18.8

How are you friends with Ice Cube?

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