Well Played: Harry Runs in Style(s), Serena Splurges (on a WNBA Team), and LeBron Calls Out the Haters Ft. Lexie Brown

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Commentators nationwide took a hard look in the mirror when LeBron called out the “weird energy” in sports media, where coverage of NBA players is nothing but negative. Seattle Storm player Lexie Brown joins us in the studio to chat about how that negativity led her to delete her Twitter, how she trained her brain to always see the positive, and why she finally took her own mental health seriously, thanks in part to a partnership with Love, Your Mind. In this episode of Well Played, we’ll also cover: Why one NFL team’s treatment of families was deemed “almost disrespectful” Whether Travis will keep giving Swifties a reason to pay attention to the NFL Who Simone Biles gave a heartwarming shout out to Our top Send Its of the week, including Coco Gauff and Timothée Chalamet matching at the Oscars, Serena trading tennis for basketball, and Paul George’s retirement from podcasting Follow Lexie: @lexiebrown Lexie’s podcast: Full Circle Love, Your Mind resources: loveyourmindtoday.org Love, Your Mind IG: @love_yourmind Blake’s IG: @blaaakkkke Caroline’s IG: @cghendy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.3	Hello and welcome back to Well Played, presented by The Skim. I'm Caroline Hender Shop.
0:36.9	And I'm Blake Morgan, Caroline.
0:38.9	What's that?
0:39.7	Back from the Combine.
0:40.7	Yes, ma'am.
0:41.4	She lives to tell the tail.
0:42.2	Yes, ma'am.
0:43.3	Give us a debrief real quick.
0:44.5	It was exhausting, honestly, because it was like in a convention center.
0:47.9	So it was like you would get in at 7 a.m. and you wouldn't see the sun. It's kind of like a casino vibe where you go in.
0:55.5	You have no concept of time.
0:57.8	They're pumping oxygen to keep you awake.
1:00.1	And then you leave at like 3 p.m.
1:01.3	And you're like, was that seven years or just seven hours?
1:03.8	I think I didn't hear a lot about the combine this year.
1:06.3	You didn't because the quarterback class, obviously everyone cares about quarterbacks and the quarterback
1:11.8	class is not as big as like last years per se. So it wasn't kind of as newsy. And also a lot of
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