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Napheesa Collier

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
814 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

Yeah, thanks for having me.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

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.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

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.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

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.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

So it's been really cool to kind of see the process of that.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

Yeah.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

Well, Alex is, I mean, he's like one of the smartest business people ever that I've ever met.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

So he actually had a business, he had a business background before that.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

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.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

And through that, you kind of just see the holes of like what's working, what's not.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

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.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

With that, a lot of people don't realize that we make most of our money off the court.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

90% of the money I make is off the court, and so you have to be able to activate with brands.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

Brand building is a huge part of our business.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

When you're overseas, you're essentially going dark for six months out of the year, so you can't activate with the brands.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

You're losing money.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

You're away from your family, out of your home country, missing holidays.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

And then on the flip side, you still have to get better at basketball.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

So staying at home and training is not the same as playing.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Napheesa Collier & Nancy Lieberman

So kind of through all those things, we came up with Unrivaled.