Emma Peasley

That's Breonna Turner.

She's a forward for the Las Vegas Aces and the WNBA Players Association treasurer.

Because she'd take whatever proposal the league was offering and stick it in her spreadsheet and see what it really meant.

We see you hitting big airs.

Yeah.

Brianna also got into it with the league when they proposed cutting housing out of their package.

They were saying basically, you're making more money, you can pay for your own housing.

But Brianna argued in the more transient and sometimes fickle world of professional sports, that could leave players without a place to live.

So it's like, what happens?

The days were marathons, ending at 1 or 2 a.m.

for the players and 4 or 5 a.m.

for the staff.

They played card games, went on walks.

Everyone had shows they were watching.

And sometimes they all watched things together, like the Oscars.

Alicia says they were watching when the first woman cinematographer won for Sinners.

Alicia says the players had lowered and lowered their rev share ask from 40% all the way down to 20.

But they couldn't go any lower and still represent what the players said they wanted.

See, a few months earlier, Alicia and Brianna and the whole negotiating team had gone to the other 150-plus players in the league and asked them, basically, hey, what do you want to do if they don't give us what we want?

And what the players said?