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Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

Tina Thompson | Stay Yo A** at Home w/ Knuckleheads

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Sports, Arts

5.03.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Basketball royalty — ROY-ALL-TEE — steps into the building when Tina Thompson joins Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles. The Hall of Famer and WNBA legend spins previously untold stories about her career. We learn how Los Angeles shaped her game. About college life at USC. The advice she got from Keyshawn Johnson. The birth of the WNBA. And the birth of her son. She shares tales from the dynasty she helped create in Houston. And reveals how Kiki VanDeWeghe and others shaped her post game. You hear what it takes to be great. To be an Olympian. A champion. A mother. A teammate. Everything. We go all in — in the presence of greatness. One of the best to ever do it. Listen in, y’all. Tina Thompson. It’s a special one.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

When you first made it to the WNBA, who's the first person to bust your ass?

0:06.6

When I first made it to the WNBA, who was the first person?

0:11.8

Jennifer Gillum. Jennifer Gillum. She's a sleeper.

0:17.4

It's a city. Killer.

0:19.3

It often times, all the sleepers. She gave you work.

0:23.2

Well, you know, like, Jen, she wasn't really a sleeper. It was just she was old school. You

0:27.0

know, she spent so many so much time like overseas. So she came, you know, when she came back,

0:32.8

like there were so many just kind of like, you know, women's basketball grades, but they hadn't

0:37.4

been at home playing in front of everybody. Jennifer had this like slow motion fall away. It was

0:43.6

just hard for anybody to guard. So it wasn't necessarily the buckets. It was just that it was one

0:49.3

of those shots, like a cream hook shot that you just could get to, you know?

0:53.5

You couldn't stop it.

1:23.5

Inglewood, Morningside. Why you decided to go to Morningside?

1:43.9

Well, you know, like, I'm originally from Los Angeles, like Born and Ray. So Inglewood was far

1:50.5

a little bit, you know? From where I grew up. But I actually was supposed to go to Palisades

1:57.0

high school because it was the high school that was kind of like, you know, sister or brother to

2:02.0

my junior high school. But education wise, it was amazing. But I went there for the first practice.

2:09.5

It was kind of like a tryout. And, you know, the coaches like, Tina, you don't have to try out.

2:13.9

Just kind of show up because they kind of knew who I was. And we're like L.A. Palisades is in

2:19.5

Brentwood, right? You know? So I didn't know what to expect. And I showed up to the first practice

2:25.4

and like half of the chicks trying out how Jean shorts daisy dudes.

2:33.4

And L.A. we wear these flip flops, you know? They're kind of like, you know, a beachy like

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