Lisa Leslie

Whether I was modeling, broadcasting, public speaking, acting, I did sitcoms, I did movies.

All of those things is because we're not just one thing.

And again, you have to be what you're comfortable with.

Everybody didn't have all of these talents, right?

but everybody didn't have the personality everybody's not as articulate everybody didn't have the the will to take criticism when you are in these spaces like who do you think you are and I remember people in players like where is she going and why is she always dressing what are you you know like why but it's like I'm my authentic self and I feel like I say Angela's like she's 10.0 me like

You just come into this future with social media, timing is everything, her personality, her beauty, her attitude, her confidence, all of those things, same thing, line up where it's like, okay, but now we have businesses and companies who want a piece of the pie because the numbers are off the chart.

Our audience has exploded.

Women's basketball is the number one growing sport

in the world right now in terms of just the numbers and where we've come from and where we've gone to.

And when you look at that, the numbers make sense, right?

Because at the end of the day, it was always about money.

If we're not making money and bringing money in, how can you expect people to invest in it?

So it took time.

So I love everything that Angel gets to accomplish.

But we also can't forget about Caitlyn because I feel like Caitlyn is another one of those.

She may not have the same type of endorsements that

Angel has, but she's a game changer.

Their Caitlin effect was real.

And I feel like the two of them with their conflict in that right moment has been an explosion of women's basketball.

And you can't say one really without the other because they were synonymous in terms of creating this growth for women's basketball.