South Beach Sessions - Napheesa Collier
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Who is Napheesa Collier and what are her achievements?
Welcome to South Beach Sessions. We've got someone with us today. She's unrivaled in a lot of different ways. She wins, right? She's a four-time WNBA All-Star. She's a two-time Olympic gold medalist. She's an NCAA champion, and she just won one-on-one in Unrivaled, a league she created. Nafisa Collier with us. Thank you for being with us. A league she created. I don't know in the list of things that I just said what you're proudest of, but I'll give you the chance to answer for yourself. And thank you for joining us.
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.
How did Unrivaled come to be and what challenges were faced?
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 years ago. So it's been really cool to kind of see the process of that.
Well, how did it come together? This is with your husband, Alex. That must present its own set of challenges.
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.
What are the financial realities for WNBA players?
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. And then also just the explosion that is happening in women's sports right now. You see it with the college game and how the WNBA and just all sports are exploding. And it feels like everyone is capitalizing off of that, except for the people, the women who are playing. And so that's where we really wanted to get into the salaries that we're paying the players and having equity in the league, really creating that generational wealth.
I want to talk to you about all of that. And Brianna Stewart is the one you were mentioning that you partnered with. I want to talk about how all of that came together. But when you look along the entirety of changes that are happening around women's sports and you talk specifically of having to play overseas, you played briefly in Turkey, right?
Yeah, I played in Turkey, France, and I was in COVID for 10 days before COVID hit.
Okay, so what were the difficulties in all of that stuff? Like, where would you look to and say, man, this feels awfully minor league for how good I actually am at this. I shouldn't have to do this outside the United States.
What was Napheesa's experience playing overseas?
Yeah. You know, I think being in different countries, they each pose their own problems. I mean, different laws, as you saw with like the Brittany Griner situation. And then specifically in Turkey, the last place I played, I brought my daughter with me. So that like poses a whole new set of obstacles that you have to get through. Like, so we had to bring my dad. So the money that you're spending on child care because she was also in daycare. So finding child care, people that you trust, having to bring separate people over to help with that, the travel with that was a nightmare because she's a toddler. And then, you know, obviously the time change with that, too. And then.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Napheesa Collier and what are her achievements?
0:16–1:04
2
How did Unrivaled come to be and what challenges were faced?
1:04–1:58
3
What are the financial realities for WNBA players?
1:58–3:17
4
What was Napheesa's experience playing overseas?
3:17–6:30
5
How did Napheesa's upbringing influence her career?
6:30–15:02
6
What adversity did Napheesa face at UConn?
15:02–19:36
7
How did motherhood impact Napheesa's basketball career?
19:36–27:22
8
What life lessons has Napheesa learned from her parents?
27:22–1:05:44
Speakers
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