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Will the WNBA Season Have a Gold-Medal Hangover?

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Olympic games are over and on the hardwood, both the men and women of Team USA brought home gold. But while the guys head off to vacation, the WNBA athletes are getting back to work. The league’s four-week break for the Paris Olympiad is over with teams taking the court tonight to kick off the season’s home stretch. And many storylines are still up in the air. Today, ESPN’s Rebecca Lobo, an Olympic gold medalist and former WNBA All-Star herself, drops by to tell us about the playoff push and what it’s like to represent your country on the hardcourt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Rebecca Lobo, we've talked before, so I think we're kind of friends.

0:04.5

Did you see Tyree's Halliburton's Instagram celebration where he held up his gold medal and

0:08.9

said when you get an A on the project even though you didn't do anything.

0:13.0

My friend, can you relate to that feeling a little bit?

0:17.6

You know, a little bit except like when our Olympic team won gold in 96, we trained for a year.

0:24.7

We were together from 1995 through 96.

0:28.0

We traveled the world.

0:29.1

We were gone at least three of the weeks of every month of the year.

0:35.0

And so the end of that Olympics,

0:38.0

I think every one of us, no matter how much we played,

0:42.0

felt like we were a massive part of it because we had dedicated

0:46.6

the 12 months, really hard months to helping to helping win that goal.

0:51.9

So, but it was great to see him have that kind of a sense of humor about it.

0:56.4

Fair enough.

0:57.0

I did not mean to diminish the work it took,

0:58.9

but I was looking up for your minutes

1:00.9

and I was like, let me see if I should ask her about that.

1:02.9

That said what was the first thing you did with your gold medal when you came home from Atlanta?

1:08.4

You know what's funny is so I come home and the first thing I did at the behest of my parents was put it in a

1:18.8

safety deposit box. I kid you not. My folks had a safety deposit box and to keep it safe we put it in the safety deposit box.

1:25.6

So this is 1996. It stayed in that safety deposit box without being removed once until we're watching the Olympics in 2012 and in

1:36.2

2012 my oldest would have been eight years old and my youngest was two.

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