Greg kicks things off with a new round of Youth Sports This or That before sitting down with ESPN analyst Chiney Ogwumike for a wide-ranging conversation on raising young athletes, the WNBA's explosive new era, and the remarkable sibling story behind one of the most unlikely stat lines in sports: she and her older sister Nneka are the only siblings in major American sports history to both be drafted #1 overall.Chiney shares the blueprint behind the Ogwumike household — starting with gymnastics (yes, at the same Houston gym that trained Simone Biles), a long driveway, a dad nicknamed "Playoff Pops" who flew in from Nigeria for every big game, and the $1-per-rebound strategy that turned her sister into a rebounding machine at age 11.She and Greg also dig into what top college coaches like Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma are actually looking for when they walk into an AAU gym (hint: it's not what most parents think), why she wasn't good at basketball until she was 14, and the case for raising specialists over stars.Plus: the WNBA's "janky to fancy" transformation, $250M expansion fees, how NIL is reshaping the international pipeline, and why Chiney believes today's young players face more pressure than any generation before them.Greg closes the episode by answering listener questions from the Youth Inc. community.

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