Angel McCoughtry
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974 appearances
8 recordings
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 18 Nov
Angel McCoughtry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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People are not getting up. They're in pain. They heard a pop. I didn't hear a pop. They don't get up and walk off. I did. Go to the doctor next day. I'm like, yeah, I got a sprained doc. Just let me know. Well, let's still get the scan. He gets the scan and he's like, oh, you have damage. I'm like, what damage? Your ACL is torn. I'm like, no, it's not. I told him, no, it's not.
I go see another doctor. He's like, you have ACL damage. I'm like, no, it's not. You're not accepting this. Went to the third doctor. He was like, your ACL is torn. Then I had to believe it. Three doctors. Crying, bawling. Had my biggest contract overseas during that time. I'm making over a million. We don't make that in the W.A. So to make over a million overseas for my first time. Oh my God.
And it's a shutdown. It's done. It's done. I'm at home. Not making money. Can't play. Can't have walk. Can't do things I'm used to doing that you take for granted. Who am I? That's when it started. Who the hell am I? What can I do after basketball? That's how I started to learn. I have to find what I'm gonna do after the game. I like music. I like being creative. That's how it started.
Honestly, if I didn't tear my ACL, I wouldn't have stopped. And I wouldn't know what I can do after the game. Things happen for a reason.
So who are you? Who are you outside of basketball? I am a creator. When people ask, what are you gonna do after basketball? I create. Anything creative, I do. I love it. I love creating something that didn't exist and now it's something. Whether it's music, a movie, and I'm in a space where I really truly love. Are you gonna get into coaching, Angel? I'll coach the kids, no problem.
Not right now for like coaching as far as college or anything like that. Not right now. But I'll coach them. Coaching in college right now with the portal, it's all crazy.
Coach me at WBA? Not yet. Later. But right now, creativity, making movies, I'm a director now. I love it. I love this space.
All of it. All of it. To go to Africa and help the kids, and I just do that by the grace of my heart, just as volunteer work. That gives me more than I give to it. So I'm gonna continue to do that. The creative space, the ice cream shop, I love putting smiles on people's faces. People smile when they eat ice cream. Nobody's depressed. I love that. And then making movies to create stories.
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My first song was released in 2011. everybody i got negative backlash from everybody it was what are you doing you're a basketball player don't do this again it sounds horrible and i was like dang this is i like it i didn't stop now i got my first placement i'm in a video game like i'm in my music is in movies commercials all because i didn't stop so you taking the risk is not about
letting people affect what you do. You gotta continue to do it. It's vulnerable, but it's like, take me as I am. Either you like it or you don't. I'm not signed with a label. But my music is you like it or you don't. It is what it is.
Y'all gonna get mad at me for this. I'm gonna just say this. Our era, I feel like, is way tougher than now. Sorry. Don't get mad at me. No days off in our era. This era, you can get a day off guarding. I had to guard Simone. Tamika Catchens, Maya Moore, like, sorry, Maya Moore, different people that today, they didn't give you a day off. After guarding Tamika Catchens, I need a week off.
The bruising and the banging and like to guard Simone, she got my knees shaking side to side. Yeah. Come on, bro. So today, yes, there are tough players. It's just a different dynamic. It's more finesse now. Back then, Cheryl Ford was gonna bang you up. You needed a week to recover, and you still had to go play a back-to-back. So I think this era is still great.
It's still great basketball, but I think the toughness was a little bit in our era. That's all I'm gonna say about that, because some people are gonna get offended.
I'm gonna disagree with that. Pushback. Men are like, oh, y'all playing now. No, we've been playing. Don't get it twisted. It's just now y'all noticing. You're noticing the play now. So the game has been amazing. It's been exciting. Are there more fans now? Yes. Is there more notoriety now? But don't get it twisted that we ain't been hooping. These girls been hooping. Facts. Yeah.
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Nice. Yes. See, Roz does it all. Yeah.
Because, you know, it's the NBA team. Let them, you know. But it was fun getting to know them better, like, just hanging out as, like, brothers and sisters. It was a lot of fun with them. You know, they have some different kind of fun. But... I think the support with each other. We was at their games. They were at our games. It was so much fun.
Obviously, the special one for me was 2012 because I got to experience Kobe. Kobe wasn't at 2016. He hung around us. Kobe didn't hang with the men's team. He hung with the women's team. And that was really special. He was so invested in us. And he would come to our practice. He would watch our practice early. No men wasn't there but him. He's watching us and he's like teaching me a move.
He's like, this is how I do my move. And I'm like learning. I'm like, okay. Then he'll go to the other end and practice. When he's down at the other end and practicing, you got 10 guys on this side of the court and he's down there by himself. Nobody's going to bother him or go shoot. You know how you go shoot with somebody else. I'm like, they won't even go shoot at his goal.
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