Jamal Merrell

Basketball is secondary.

Yeah, 100%.

100%.

Yeah, 100%.

Yeah, she definitely has the potential.

But she knows from us being a parent, from the parenting standpoint, we want the best for her if she does go to the WNBA.

But she knows her first primary is to do what you want to do in life because WNBA doesn't last forever.

And we are teaching her that because that's the mental side.

We don't want her to put all her eggs in the basket, just in the WNBA and say adversity does come and that WNBA team release her.

And now she's back home and like mom and dad, what do I do?

And now she's, that's when it really hits mental health.

She's depressed.

She's vulnerable to a lot of things like drugs, alcohol, because she, nobody never taught her that you have to have other options.

You have to, you had to have a backup plan.

But I will say now,

A lot of parents on board were like, well, what's your backup plan?

Because NFL, WNBA doesn't last forever.

And I hear a lot of kids, even at a young age, are like, oh, I want to go to NFL, but I really want to be a doctor.

So I'm going to try.

They're going to do both.