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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to another episode of the Real Deal podcast.

I'm your host, Jamar Lincoln, Assistant Director of NIL.

We got us a very special guest with us this afternoon.

She's a guard for the LSU women's basketball team. At Sacred Heart Academy, she rose to become one of the most dominant players to ever come out of the state of Kentucky basketball as a four-time state champion, four-time Gatorade player a year, four-time Max Prep, Kentucky High School player a year, gold medalist,'s All-American, and Jordan Brand Classic MVP.

MVP member.

Her first season at LSU was nothing but special earning SEC All-Freshment Team honors and Paradise Jam all-Termint

team.

She is also the first women's basketball player signed to Nike's Blue Rim and Elite NIL program from Shelbyville,

Kentucky, ladies and gentlemen,

Ms. Zakaya Johnson.

Hello.

See, how we doing?

I'm good, and happy birthday to you. Oh, yeah. I appreciate it. Thank you. Forget that. I'm good. I'm glad to be here and I'm excited. Yeah, this is good. So talk to me a little bit. We're going to obviously going to talk about all the things in IL basketball all these different things the nike piece you went to the kentucky derby i did a derby girl how was that that

was the first time no it wasn't we actually got out of school for it in high school yeah so they would let us

out on thurbey actually we would get out that thursday and then everybody's getting ready for derby that friday and and Saturday because we have the Oaks and then Derby too. So it's just a big thing for everybody. Like you probably won't miss anybody at Derby. Yeah. And so talk to me a little bit about like the outfits. Are you already playing months in advance or is it like the week leading up you're like I know I got to put some

pieces together because you go to the Kentucky Derby it's it's a I'm not saying you can

wear what you want yeah certain you know standard that's there when people go to the

Derby so for me I think because I'm comfortable with the dress code and I know

what I'm looking for I didn't get my outfit until the day before so I mean I might look online

and figure something out and figure out an idea but I won't go to the store until

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