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Welcome back to Good Follow Man. I am Juju Gotti, joined by my sister as always, Trista Crick. How are you doing, sis?
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I'm good, Juju. I'm excited for this wnba season to start.
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You already know. We presented by draftkings. You got to know. We presented by DraftKings. And you got to know the crown is yours. If you don't know, now you do know. Also, if you didn't know the season, tip off this damn week. Ladies and gentlemen, how do you feel was the off season as long as it felt?
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It did feel long. It felt long, but it also felt short because that damn CBA was hovering over us like a gray cloud. So now that we got these teams somewhat put together as rosters start to solidify, I got questions. I think I got questions for every team.
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Yeah. Well, let's start with the reigning champs and Queen Wilson and them girls, the Death Star, moving towards your damn team every damn game. Because these girls seem inevitable. Excuse me. Pardon me. These women seem inevitable. What do you think about the reigning champs this season?
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I'm going to tell you what, this team, adding Kennedy Carter makes a lot of damn sense in terms of depth. My big question, juju.
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Yeah.
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Age not of Asia, but out of the point. God. And out of Jewel Lloyd and a little bit out of Jackie. We saw it last year where it was catching up with them. They were looking gas. Becky Hammond was in, they assume. Are we gonna see anything like that or are they gonna pick up from last season where they left off, Bro,
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I think they gonna pick up right where they left off, bruh. Cause it don't matter who go down, somebody get injured, they draft right. Man, they whole roster seems as though they're ready. You got to know And Kennedy Carter, man, she's a swishblade. Like she like whoever goes down on
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your team a swish blade.
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Swish blade, you feel me? That's how we call it on on the west side. A swish blade. You that I think she is that switchblade who go down. I don't give a damn if a forward go down. You can put Kennedy right there. Because guess what she gonna do be Ken. You got to know. And also too Cheyenne Parker tyus. Like last year she was coming back from having the baby. We getting a healthy Cheyenne Parker tyres this year, so I think they gonna be all right.
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Love that. What about the Lynx? Nafeesa Collier, just out of a scooter. She's now in a boot. When does she come back? They say June. But my big question is, are all the women who left the team do they know something we don't?
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Bruh, did you see what Nafisa Kaya said too? She also said like today or so that the wnba, the files, it's becoming too tough. I'm not sure. I gotta get the quote.
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Too physical. The game is too physical.
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Bruh, this is the first time I seen anybody say anything against Queen Fee online, so I don't know. I do think that at certain times, like last year in the playoffs, she definitely got injured. And it's still recovering from. Definitely a file that may or may not have been called. You did Cheryl went crazy. Cheryl I ain't never seen sure act like that. You feel me, bro. So it's like. Damn. Oh, yeah. And dj, look, your three Janae, she held account. She held the damn towel up and they switched the camera angle on the ass.
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Yeah. I mean, if I was Fee, I'd be thinking the same thing, to be honest. Like you.
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Yeah.
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You pretty much missed your entire unrivaled. You missed your entire unrival season. You're gonna miss the first month of the WNBA season. It messed up the entire flow. Your GMs don't even put you on their top players in the surveys anymore. They don't have you on defensive Player of the Year survey. They don't have you on MVP survey. They. They don't have you on the survey of players you would start a franchise with. She is nowhere in that. And if I was her, I'd be like, all of this happened because Alyssa Thomas doesn't have no damn sense with where she throws her body around.
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Look, man. Salute to Man. We don't want no smoke. S. No smoke. Look, I know the shoulders might not Work, but I know them hands do. So we. We want no smoke, but yeah, bro, I think, bro. Unfortunately, man, I just can't get off this bro, like, pause. I think that Lauren Betts was right there, man. And I think Olivia Miles is her. She is a legend. She is the queen. Come on. Great woman, but damn if I don't see an all star in the making. And Lauren bets, at least from this preseason. That's way too early. Who am I? The preseason means nothing to some people. But sis look phenomenal, bruh. What you think? Did they pick the right person to Olivia mouse.
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I love Olivia. I think her and Fee together will be tremendous. But the question is, is how long is Fee gonna be on this team? Let's move forward to D. I know. I just slipped that right in and just move right on by.
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Hey, yo. And also get well soon, Dorka. You has. You feel me? Get well soon because they gonna miss her. She's a presence. So a bit darker salute, man. But moving on, like you say to the Wings. The Wings, man, they got a lot of damn guards, bruh.
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Let me fly again, bruh.
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I'm talking about they got guards. If you need them, they got them. Big page. Big a odyssey. Sims, bro. Who else they got?
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Isaiah.
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Oh, Martha Suarez.
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And now you drop Martha Suarez, and now she's signing with a developmental contract with the Mercury. What in the hell is going on, bro? Like, somebody need to answer a question or five. Because I just don't understand that. Maybe I am extremely ignorant to this process. Maybe I don't know how this stuff works, but I'm putting my hand up and I'm asking for some understanding. What in the hell is going on?
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Why do they tell us their rationale like we're the dumb ones?
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Exactly. Damn. My bad.
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And also, they. Then it comes out that they didn't know the damn cba, and so they thought that they could sign, which we think the rumor is that they were trying to sign Natasha Cloud, and they thought that they could cut Marta Suarez and save some money on the cap space and then get Natasha Cloud, and they couldn't do it. And so now they cut Martas Suarez for no reason. And now Marta Suarez is on a development contract on the God dang Mercury. What the.
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This is goofy as hell. You just traded Flage Damn. Like icon. Damn near big foe. Excuse me. Pardon me. For nothing, in my opinion.
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Like, for nothing.
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Like, was it a conversation that had to do with you guys not trusting big foe? Like, do we need to have a further conversation? Like, somebody talk to me because I'm not understanding this. Math is not math. Talk to me. Talk to me.
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Let me just say this. I'm gonna say it without saying it.
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Yeah,
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it just. It's giving. You know what I mean,
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man? Look, look, look. We gonna move on, bro. We love the W. So we trying to shine y' all in the best light.
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Yeah.
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But we just needed. We need somebody to get in front of a microphone and. And say this in layman terms to the ones who don't understand, because. Come on now. But moving on, bro. To the Phoenix Mercury, bro. Who a lot of folk keep leaving no Satu this year. I didn't like necessarily how they handled Natasha Clyde when she left. Like, why nobody don't necessarily stay in Phoenix. Like, I understand Bit dpz, Dewana, Broner and ATZ and Kcock. I already know y' all gonna. Gonna link it up, but folk be leaving Phoenix for some reason. What you think about them this year?
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I know Satu. Why did Satu leave after one year? She got there. She was excited to go there. She left Dallas, by the way. She could probably D up a little Asia Wilson if she would have been in Dallas. And now she's over in New York because who knows? Is it too hot? Is it the. Is it the lack of humidity? Do you feel like your skin is in an oven? Do we not like Nate Tibbets? Do we not like. What do we not like about Phoenix?
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Exactly, bro? Cause like I said, how they handle Tasha? They say told Ty she was going to be there. They told Ty she was. She was one of them ones for them. And then Delta to Connecticut. Let's not let that slip out in history because Tasha ended up in the right place in New York. But don't folks traded her to the damn Connecticut sign. Salute to the sun. You already know I love you. If anybody messed with your Connecticut son, I mess with you. But come on now. A legend like Tasha didn't deserve that after somebody done actually told them with their own mouth, you're. You're here for us. We. We love you. We love you for the future. So, yeah, Phoenix. I don't know, bro. I don't know it. So I can't speak on it, but I got my eyes on your ass.
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That's right. That's right. Let's go to the LA Sparks juju. It's a bad. It's a team full of baddies. It's a team full of excitement. Neca returns.
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Yes, sir.
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And we got Cam Brink. Is Cambrink still engaged or not? She took the ring off. She took the ring on. But who is guarding Asia?
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Salute to my sister, E. Wheezy. You got to know I love you. But moving on to what I would like to call my sleeper team, because where there's sometime a will, there's sometime a Damn way. If and what he say? He might not come when you want him, but he gonna be there right on time. And if somebody else goof up flage situation. As long as you there ready to pooper scoop and have handled it the right way and treat her like the queen that she is. My guy, my girls, my non binaries, the Seattle Storm look out bruh, because they still got bit dawn. They still added I. Wow,
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you did.
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Come on. And now they got big foe along with the rest of the roster they already had like dog, they up and down that roster. I don't see too many weaknesses. Little sis talking about getting her confidence back.
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Ziya Cook looks really, really good. Exactly, really good.
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You feel me? And she's speaking from a place of like, yo, I'm finding my love back of basketball type.
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And listen, look at Zaya Cook. Even in high school, before she went to South Carolina was one of them ones was snatching soul, snatching ankles, snatching hearts and mind. So don't even play with me. Ziya Cook has the chance to be really special as a piece. The question is, does as he want to be there as he's now talking about being traded? Hey, you're making a million dollars, which you don't want to play with Dom and awa or you feeling like you're getting squeezed out? Take the money, Ezzy, take the money.
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Look, I'm gonna tell you like I tell my folks, play with me if you want cash money going broke. I'm sorry, sis. Ezzy, I'm so sorry. What's your contract say? Listen, I'm so sorry. They say we got you until when? That's how I'm handling these conversations when I'm in the front office. I understand. You might want to go play with your little homegirls over there. I get it. Yeah, I see. I know the grass look green over there, but we don't sign this contract. And unless they send some over here that makes sense for somebody that matches Ezzy Magbador, the Ezzy that can get on them boards, that can get in the paint, that can get you a bucket, that can knock down a jumper, that can bruh. And defend block on block on block. Ain't nobody doing it with blocks as he is. So I'm so sorry, sis, if you unhappy, but we got to make it make sense before even we. Before we even entertain that thought because uses are one of them ones.
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Juju certified ball knower. The question that I have, are the Portland Fire certified ball noors or are they actually Playing chess when everybody else is playing checkers. AKA getting the jersey swap a high image. Ready for juju Watkins.
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Bro, I don't know this. Above my pay grade. I wish I knew, though, because just like last year, we thought that. Ah, this is cute. Golden State Valkyrie. Okay, they got a team now. Let's see them try to compete. No, no, no, no, no, no. They were whooping feet last year. They ended up in the playoffs last year. You dig it? So I'm not necessarily sure. I ain't going to guess because Portland might just come out kicking ass for all I know.
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I've seen him in the preseason. Juju. It's not looking good. They just traded somebody. I believe they traded Chloe Bibby for a player that's not in the league anymore. And she's currently living in Detroit, Michigan, working at a golf shop. Golf. Golf course. Pro shop.
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Yeah.
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That's not a fake. That's not a fake story. That's what they just did. She works in a pro shop.
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And guess what? We still respect everybody at all levels. You dig? Because salute to him. Before we get up out of here on this, though, the Chicago sky have zero of their 2025 draft picks on the roster right now. They cooking over there. They signed big Tasha Cloud. They did the right thing, like Spike Lee. But they are also doing other things that are distracting me. What in the hell are. I mean, where is Haley gonna end up? What say ye t?
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The whole team is? I'm a loudmouth. Say what I want to say. That's them, man. You got Tosh about as loud as they get. Got in my DMs calling me all kinds of crazy. Oh, oh, yeah. Big, big Tosh didn't like that. I reported what I heard about what was happening with their contract. Got into the dms, said, how dare you tell me what my value is? I said, I'm not telling you what your value is. I'm just telling you what I heard. And I'm telling the world what I heard. I don't. It's not me. I want you to get paid a millie. It's not me. I heard you're. I heard you got offered a half a million. You turned it down. If that's wrong, come tell me the other way. Went crickets on me and then took the 550 from the Chicago Sky. You know, it's just, you can't win for losing when you're trying to spread the word of the gospel of the WNBA Juju. Then you got, obviously, Skylar Diggins. She says, what she wants to say we already got the Jeff Pagliaka said I'm terrified of having conversations with Skyler Diggins if she's not getting what she wants. You got Rakia. Rakia is on no bull. This is literally her comeback summer. I'm not messing with no mediocre men treating me like dirt. It's. It's ones on site if you want to end up treating me below what I think I need. So you got multiple stuff going on here. Dijonay. Dijonay. She's in the middle of a love triangle with the Aces. I don't know what the hell is going. I mean, that place is a mess.
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That's my sister, Trisha Crick. I fight for you. Feel me? She my dog, you know, and you might have to have a problem, but you might have another. Tasha Cloud is my dog and so I'm always respect Tasha Cloud. If she feel a certain way, then we just gotta. We gotta have more conversations. And you feel.
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Let her know. Hey, nobody's trying to diminish you. I'm actually a fan.
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For sure. We understand. But I know it'd be. It'd be tough times, this stuff.
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Times when you're trying to get paid, you're not sure if you're gonna stay in the league.
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Right? Right. So. So try to steal my sis a little understanding. You feel me? That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna send my sister some understanding. And guess what else? I'm gonna send my sis love and happiness because she did get that contract. Hello.
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Get her breath.
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Say what we want to say. But hello, you dig it. Meet me at Magic City. Hello. You dig it.
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But Lemon pepper wings on you.
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Hello. It's now time for the DraftKings Pick of the Week presented by DraftKings. This week, we are watching the Dallas Wings take on the Indiana Fever. And on Indiana, I will be watching big Aaliyah Boston. Excuse me. Pardon me, Mrs. Aaliyah Boston. Excuse me. Pardon me, big sis Aaliyah Boston. Just casting at the B A N K. Aaliyah Boston. Because I don't know who in the hell on the other side is going to guard her.
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Not sure. Juju on Dallas, though. I'm going to be watching maybe one of the more improved players coming up in the wnba and Maddie Se in the end. So I'm picking the wings to win it. They already put belt to ass on the fever and why not do it again?
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And this segment is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours.
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Atlanta Dream, Atlanta Dream.
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Yeah. And guess what? Atlanta dream the remix just hit the the stores right now. You feel me? Atlanta dream remix. It's called let's go Atlanta dream right now. Available on itunes everywhere. We had to add Angel Reese to the verse. You got to know we may as well start there on the east, man. The Atlanta Dream. What do you foresee? Is it gonna be a dream or a nightmare? Salute to meat meal.
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Listen, I think juju and I want to get your perspective more than I want to hear on my own is that I just don't know how impactful Asia or Angel, excuse me, will be by herself if Brianna Jones doesn't come back and angel needs to play the full time five. That's a downgrade. No matter what you want to slice it and dice it, you lose. BG Brianna Jones. We'll see when she comes back and to me that's the big question mark.
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Yeah, I, I think though they did luck up in the draft and get okay. You feel me? Because she is. She came up from Don and you know Don gonna at least have you in all the kind of shape and she gonna have you in all kind of mental awareness and I think she could prove to be a good backup for angel or side by side with Angel. It's just according to the expectations you can allow yourself to put on a rookie you did. I'm willing to have patience with little sis so however she comes, I'm gonna be straight with it. But at the same time, I don't know because you put her next to Ryan, Big Al Jordan.
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Nah, she shoots three now. She shoots threes now too. Okot was hitting them for South Carolina. Let's move on to the Liberty though. Damn. Sabrina tore up her ankle. My biggest question is, is it serious?
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I don't know. Either way it goes, New York Liberty always gonna be serious, man. I don't like how they did my sister Tasha Cloud. I'm not ready to talk about Liberty just yet. Moving on to the Indiana Fever. Will it work this year? They went to the chill last year. No Kaylin. Now they got sis back. Is this their year?
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I think it's. I think they obviously took the Aces to the brink in the semis and that was probably the. The most cohesive a team that has so many injuries has ever been Kelsey Mitchell. If she doesn't get rabdo and has to leave the game, I think they could have even beaten the Aces with a healthy Caitlyn Clark. It's all about how Monique Billings and some of the new added folks in acclimate. Also, Raven Johnson is now my new favorite WNBA player of all time. I love her spirit.
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I. I still don't understand how Odyssey Sims can give you that performance in the finals and you not keep her. I'm. I'm sorry, man. Just from loyalty standpoint, look what sis did. But moving on, man. Do we want to go to Toronto? I don't got no expectations for Toronto. Do you have any for them?
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No, I have zero for them all. All I want to say about Toronto is keep your eye on them. They're a crash out away from being a Chicago sky. Let's talk about the DC Mystics, though, because I think they're the funnest team in all of the W. The Young Guns Rockefeller. Bang, bang. We get down, baby. We get down, bro.
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They got away with highway robbery. I don't give a damn. What's your idea of the Mystics when you see that jersey is they got the chip in 2019. Salute to Della Don. Salute to Tasha Cloud. At the same time, this is a new era now. This is something new. They got Sonia Citron. They got Lauren Betts. They got Shakira. They got Kiki Bruh. They. Bro, they got a Georgia. You feel me?
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Georgia.
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It's scary, bro. Look out for them. They another state of sleeper team from the east, in my opinion.
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They got Lauren Betts. They got Cody McMahon. They got player on play. They got Angela Dougalich College.
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Yeah, you got to know, man. But guess what? They got away with robbery. It's Minnesota Links, man. I'm. But you know what, man? That's gonna do it for this episode of Good Follow. Man. Thank y' all so much for locking in with the kids, man. Any last words you got for the. For the boys and the girls? Am I Nothing by Nari.
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Date: May 7, 2026
Hosts: Juju Gotti & Trista Crick
As the WNBA season tips off this week, Juju Gotti and Trista Crick team up to break down team rosters, lingering offseason questions, projected storylines, and wild free agency moves. Their discussion flows team by team, raising key concerns, calling out confusing management decisions, and praising rising stars. It’s a candid, humorous, and insider-filled preview of the season’s top questions: Who will stop A’ja Wilson? Which teams solved their offseason puzzles—and which are moving backward? Expect honest takes, sharp banter, and love for both the league and its players.
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On the Aces’ inevitability
“These women seem inevitable. What do you think about the reigning champs this season?”
— Juju, [02:07]
On confusing GM moves
“Maybe I don’t know how this stuff works, but I’m putting my hand up and I’m asking for some understanding.”
— Juju, [09:41]
Phoenix’s player exodus
“Is it too hot? Is it the lack of humidity? Do we not like Nate Tibbetts?”
— Trista, [12:05]
Trista’s Natasha Cloud DMs story
“She got in my DMs, said, ‘How dare you tell me what my value is?’ ... And then took the 550 from the Chicago Sky. You know, it's just, you can't win for losing when you're trying to spread the word of the gospel of the WNBA.”
— Trista, [17:27–18:56]
Seattle roster praise
“Seattle Storm, look out bruh, because they still got big Dawn. They still added I. ... I don’t see too many weaknesses.”
— Juju, [13:56]
The dialogue is fast-paced and alternates between sharp, insider basketball analysis and playful, sometimes irreverent humor. There’s clear affection for the league and its players, but the hosts don’t shy from criticizing questionable management choices or calling out league issues. Banter, storytelling, and catchphrases (“You got to know!” “Salute, man!”) keep things lively and authentic.
This episode is a dynamic, fan-driven primer for the WNBA season, focused on big-picture storylines, surprising roster moves, and the unique personalities shaping the league in 2026.