Paige Bueckers
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And I would say like Shea, Gilgis, Alexander, Devin Booker, Kobe Bryant.
Yeah, I think specifically for me, like, growing up, I kind of specialized early.
So as a parent, like, I would want my kid to stay in multiple sports for, like, obviously...
it's a fine balance of like, okay, this is the one that I want to be great at.
And this is the one that I'm in love with, but like to continue to play other sports, I think early specialization, especially for women creates more injuries.
Like you're just so used to that movement and that pattern to where other sports can like get you to different movements, get you to do different mobility exercises and, and stretching and things like that.
And I think that too is like a,
And like sports just teaches you the best life lessons, like adversity, overcoming, like winning, how to handle winning, how to handle losing and failure.
And so I think sports is like it's taught me the most beautiful lessons and it's taught me to like be grounded, be grateful, never take anything for granted.
And then I think lastly, the beauty of friendships.
Like I have some of my sisters, family, friends, like friends.
the closest people in my life were like my teammates.
And then to be able to learn and grow from different coaching staff and just relationships.
I think once you like, obviously I'm 24, but once you look back in life, like at the end of your life, like that's the thing that you're going to value the most is the people and how many people you touched and how many people you affected.
And I think just relationships are the biggest value to me in life.
So I think a lot of that happens through sport as well.
I think most people would not be prepared to answer that question.
I think most people would not be prepared to answer that question.
We should have. great to point out though i remember that specific move and i'm like man only michael can do that meanwhile it's patterned and named after steve smith
We should have. great to point out though i remember that specific move and i'm like man only michael can do that meanwhile it's patterned and named after steve smith