Lexie Brown

the things that we're fighting for, like higher salaries, pensions for retired players, health benefits for retired players, like just things that we weren't able to get to in the last CBA because the one before that was so messed up.

So I think, you know, the WNBA, obviously it's going to be a battle.

Hopefully we can like find a happy medium, but I think it's like headed in the right direction for sure.

I mean, I promise I'm not trying to get you to shit on the WNBA.

I'm really just asking this as a professional athlete,

Do you feel like the league takes care of its players?

Because I feel like the NFL does a horrible job of taking care of players, active and retired players.

We have work to do with retired players.

And I think that's why it's been one of our focus in these new CBA negotiations is how can we take care of players that laid the foundation for us?

Mm-hmm.

um moving forward because there's actually nothing in place at all for retired players right now but i think my dad was part of the lockout in his season that was like for that kind of stuff like retired players pension all that kind of stuff so that's definitely important to us um you know we have i don't know if all teams have like mental health specialists on staff but i know we had some in la we had two in la um did we have one in chicago

I think LA might have been my first team that had mental health specialists for us, just for our team.

So that wasn't a thing.

The way they take care of mothers definitely has room for improvement, but it's much better than it was when my dad was coaching.

So again, being a woman in this field, there's just so many things that we have to think about that men simply don't have to worry about.

Yeah.

Getting pregnant and having kids and how are you going to manage that?

And how's it going to affect your contract?

It's going to affect the roster spot because now you get pregnant.

You got to be out.