Napheesa Collier
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Yeah, thanks for having me.
That's definitely something I'm proud of just because obviously all the work that's gone into it, you know, years of just planning this.
And, you know, Stewie and I just like from having it be a seed of an idea to having it turn into an entire league.
It's just like a crazy thought, something I never would have thought or dreamed of growing up or in college or even a couple of years ago.
So it's been really cool to kind of see the process of that.
Yeah.
Well, Alex is, I mean, he's like one of the smartest business people ever that I've ever met.
So he actually had a business, he had a business background before that.
But from Stu and I's side, we both had been in the league for several years by the time we started thinking of this.
And through that, you kind of just see the holes of like what's working, what's not.
For a lot of WNBA players, they've been having to go overseas for years to supplement the income because we make money for six months out of the year.
With that, a lot of people don't realize that we make most of our money off the court.
90% of the money I make is off the court, and so you have to be able to activate with brands.
Brand building is a huge part of our business.
When you're overseas, you're essentially going dark for six months out of the year, so you can't activate with the brands.
You're losing money.
You're away from your family, out of your home country, missing holidays.
And then on the flip side, you still have to get better at basketball.
So staying at home and training is not the same as playing.
So kind of through all those things, we came up with Unrivaled.