Lisa Leslie
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I never really talked about this whole goat thing.
And I know that it's tough because there's different errors.
Like Cheryl Miller was amazing and she may be somebody's goat, right?
Because she did so much great things in women's basketball and getting us to the platform where we were before the WNBA ever began.
Then you have, I guess you have the WNBA, you know, and you have Cheryl, you have myself, you have Cynthia Cooper, all different positions, amazing players, Lauren Jackson, amazing players.
And you have Diana Tarazi, Sue Bird come, amazing players.
Then you have Maya Moore come in.
an amazing player and I just feel like it's so tough and then you have Asia and I feel like Asia is like taking home everything I feel like Asia don't have the competition to be really honest like the competition
I don't know.
I just feel like when you look at centers and forwards across the board in the league, that position is starting to go away at a fast rate.
Even it already happened in the NBA where there's not a lot of true centers and forwards.
So I just feel like her dominance is like when you take a person and you go, in any era, Asia would be amazing.
in any era.
That's how you get to goat status, right?
But I feel like in any era, Cynthia Cooper would have been amazing.
Sheryl Miller would have been amazing.
I would be amazing.
Like we would still have the level of success that we've had even now in this era.
So to me, there's a lot of women who are really the cream of the crop at the top.
And it would be disrespectful to me to try and say one person who is accomplishing more awards in this time period is necessarily better than a person who accomplished it.