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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Introducing Nneka Ogwumike on More Than A Vote, WNBA CBA Opt-Out, and Free Agency from In Case You Missed It with Khristina Williams.

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Khristina is joined by 9-time WNBA All-Star, 2016 WNBA Champion, and current WNBPA President Nneka Ogwumike. They discuss the importance of voting, the More Than a Vote Initiative, using her platform, and why the WNBA is a league of activism. Nneka also discusses her role as WNBPA President, the decision to opt out of the current CBA, and the most important gains she expects to make for the players.

They go back to the 2016 WNBA Finals and get Nneka’s take on the possible officiating controversy. Plus, Nneka talks about her free agency and what she is looking for before she signs a new contract.

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Executive Producers:

Nikki Ettore

Jessie Katz

Tyler Klang

Jonathan Strickland

Supervising Producer:

Peter Coughter

Producer & Editor:

Tari Harrison

Host:

Khristina Williams

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0:00.0	In Case You Missed It with Christina Williams is an I-Heart Women's Sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.
0:13.4	Welcome back to another edition of In Case You Missed with Christina Williams.
0:18.6	And I'm super excited about today's guest as you guys know today's
0:23.0	election day and so here to break it all down for us is nine-time WMBA All-Star and Champion
0:30.9	NECA Agumakeh. Hi, NECA, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Okay, so I want to just dive right into it. Today's
0:41.6	Election Day, and you've obviously joined LeBron James' more than a vote initiative. So can you just
0:48.1	tell us the story behind that collaboration? Well, I mean, I was kind of, I guess, called upon in 2020 in the election, concluding the bubble.
0:56.8	And, of course, we had a lot of initiatives going on during the election.
0:59.7	But that was when I was first reached out to about how we as athletes can use our platforms
1:04.9	to ensure that people are voting, registering, understanding how they can impact their communities and also use their
1:12.4	own platforms and also their own power to be able to have a say.
1:16.5	Why did you choose to have a focus or emphasis on reproductive rights with this initiative?
1:22.6	Well, that's definitely an issue that's front and center. It definitely hits home for me and so many other women
1:29.7	athletes because we earn our living with our bodies and to be able to have agency over our bodies,
1:36.1	whether it comes to how we earn our living, our health and benefits, and family planning,
1:42.2	however it is that people want to consider those things for themselves.
1:45.8	I think it is important to understand that it is our choice.
1:49.3	And there's no business, even the governments, to be able to make a decision on what we can do with our bodies.
1:55.3	What are some ways that more than the vote has been able to engage voters during this time period and what athletes have joined on
2:02.9	to support the initiative? Yeah, so we have had a lot of different tour stops. Of course, there's a lot
2:08.7	of voting organizations and we've been able to collaborate with get out the vote when we all
2:13.5	vote and so many others. And so along these tourstabs, we've tried to meet people in communities
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