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I am Juju Gotti.

I am Trista Crick.

And today we are joined by my sister.

We have the same blood.

We share the same mother and father.

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What an introduction.

Yes, sir, man.

Let's get straight to it, man.

We have reached a verbal agreement between the WNBA and the player's association on a

news CBA term, man.

Neckle shared some celebratory pictures of what it looked like in the room, where it

all happened.

Look at them.

Look at them.

Like I put the cheese in from up here to here, low and heavy.

So now that we're just 51 days before tip off, here's what the new terms will entail.

You got the know, man.

New salary cap starting at 7 million up from 1.5 million.

The average revenue share of nearly 20% across the deal, a super max starting at 1.4 million.

The average salary is in a range of 600,000 and the minimum is above 300,000.

Damn.

Ashton, what do you think about this great news?

I think it's very, very exciting.

I'm still sort of confused about how the revs your conversation went down because I know

that was like the biggest thing and they said close to 20 and I'm like, but they were

kind of close to 20 before.

So like did they get the 20 because I know they are asking for 24, but I don't want to

split hairs.

Basically, whatever the players think is good enough for them is good enough for me.

And that's that.

Ashton, I'm so glad you said that because you read this and we don't want to be everybody's

party and everybody's in the streets with the pots and pants.

And I love that.

I love parties.

I love that we're getting a WNBA season and like I'm not pocket watching.

Like it's not my money that it's not my salary.

I've got no skin in the game.

But there's a lot of like words that make my the hairs on my arm go up.

It's like where it's like average revenue share is nearly across deal.

So what is it?

I need I need specifics.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I see the change in the salary cap and that is phenomenal.

But like I wonder really what the terms look like and what we know, will they tell us

or is this as much as we'll ever know?

I hope that they will tell us.

I think that they will tell us we're going to find out there's going to be people investigating

this thing down to the nano level in 1982, 1983 when pretty much all of the NBA was broke

and franchises were losing money left and right.

They signed a CBA where the players got 53%.

So yeah, like I'm kind of like, yo, we can't even get anywhere close to what it was when

the NBA was quote unquote, dying or struggling.

To me, it's kind of like, will we ever get anywhere close to the men?

Well, just as a reminder, she's not trying to rain on any dabs like she's not right.

I'm happy for y'all.

Like one point for a million ages about to get her bread right now.

The other thing is that this is six years.

So you're talking are we ever going to get close to the men and it's like not for six

years, seven years.

I think six they can opt out and are they going to just go from nearly 20 to 50?

Absolutely not.

Right?

I can't do that.

Yeah.

Well, I choose to see this as one small step for woman when one giant step for our woman

kind because hey, we're closer to the prize than we were yesterday.

I have a conspiracy theory that the league intentionally physically exhausted the players

to get them to say yes to a lower revshare number because they're in there at 4 a.m.

every night.

And it's like at that point, you're just like, okay, I'll sign whatever man.

This is torture.

Yes.

Why we have to wait for March for this?

Why can we have done this deal all like back 18 months ago?

Can we get in the room and have these meetings over and out?

They were just putting it off to the last minute.

This is keep pushing.

That's not, that's not stop, but we can't see.

We can't celebrate the progress.

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How many free ages we got in the WNBA this season, I'm coming up over a hundred.

There will be over a hundred free agents this season.

And someone that first before we go to Dululu corner, let me just stop everyone from going

too crazy because the players you want to see move.

Many of them because of the way that the CBA is cannot be moved.

It's called the core player designation.

It's essentially like a franchise tag.

So you want to see Nafisa Koyer out of the links, which nobody really does.

She's not going anywhere.

They can cord designate her.

I want to see her out of the links today and then the dream jersey.

I'm sorry.

So outside of the core players.

And by the way, Brianna Stewart does not qualify for core player designation for some

reason.

So yeah.

So says Google.

So so says Google, I don't know, like I'm not a CBA expert.

But that's in the words of Brianna Stewart.

She's not leaving though.

She stood.

So let's break down what we want to see in terms of you're talking about 100 free

agents.

Where do we want to see some of these players that are non rookies and non core players

moved?

Okay.

How do I say this diplomatically?

I actually asked Stewie this question yesterday.

I talked to her.

Oh, okay.

Briefly.

Hey.

And I was like, I was like, who would you bring to the Liberty to kind of up the swag?

And she was like, well, we're already pretty swaggy.

And I was like, I mean, yes, but I have some notes though.

Like, and she suggested a Rika.

And I think.

Great.

So we start a rumor.

Oh, we started rumors.

Stewie's bringing a Rika over.

Yes.

But be bold letters.

Yes.

Right now.

We came out of there, right?

Like we know Rika and Paige as much as they wanted it to work.

And I wanted it to work.

I didn't feel like it maximized a Rika and it didn't feel like it maximized Paige.

So especially if you drafted a Z, like if you drafted a Z then we got to get some of these

guards up out here.

I think you're right about that.

Juju.

I think Rika probably probably is going to be out of there.

I like that a lot.

What about you, Juju?

Who do you want to see come to the dream?

See, when you say Delulu, I take it as the real word.

Delulu means Delulu in my dictionary.

Asia Wilson.

You are now in an industry.

I told you it's not possible, Juju.

I'm not even entertaining this.

Who did?

Who did the Sparks core?

Let's find out.

Because like Kelsey could be going somewhere.

That's what I thought.

Yeah.

That's what I thought.

Oh, yes.

Kelsey, Kelsey Plong.

You are in the name of the dream.

I like that a lot because we need that.

Jorin Canada Salute, neighborhood Canada, but she's hurt a lot sometimes.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

And that'll be a great one to punch.

What about you Trista?

What's your delusional?

Delulu right now.

No limits.

Portland, getting Jackie young.

Oh, that's fun.

I would love that.

That's brilliant.

Especially think about this.

Right now, the ACEs have three players making max money.

Yeah.

They got jewel.

They got Jackie.

They got Asia.

I know that the seller caps almost seven million now, y'all.

But are you going to pay?

Like, I think this is going to change.

How owners pay super max money.

Who those players are.

Because it's like, you can't pay three players 1.4 million dollars and have, and feel the team.

Unless you want significant look over the shoulder side eyes from the rest of the squad.

Like, you can't get the one.

I'm going to go out of the corner.

I'm going to go out of the corner.

I'm going to go out of the corner.

Get a little bit of clippers.

Get a little aspiration money going on.

We're going to see that.

But, okay.

So that means that those three are not staying together.

And you can't be a six man.

Make a 1.4 mil.

Like, that's just not happening.

I don't think.

Here's a question I have.

The.

The expansion draft is the main thing.

I have my eye on mainly because like,

I'm from Portland.

I.

That will be very fun for me.

But also, you know,

Okay.

So the way that the expansion draft worked last year was you protect five or six players.

And then everyone else is fair game.

But if everyone's free.

Like, when does.

When do the free.

And the expansion draft is before the free agency.

So I'm not sure how that works.

And no one explains this before we move on though.

I'm a.

I'm going to give a real one though.

A real.

Okay.

Instead of being like too delusional.

Uh, Sabrina, you're not school.

You are now on that end of the dream.

Let's move on.

I won't support that.

Sabrina, you're not school.

You are now a golden state.

Valkyrie.

Oh, that's too much money.

That's too much money.

I like that.

I like that.

Matter of fact,

injuries.

You are now on the dream.

Uh, it's March right now.

You got to know.

Trista, what you got for this March,

Matt and this stuff.

Uh, prepare for us.

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Now, March Madness is here.

First up, let's see who we think is going to be this year's Cinderella.

It is a glass slipper.

I think Oklahoma.

Hey, I don't, I don't necessarily.

I'm a little bit bench feel feel.

I've got a little bit of a hater in my heart for Oklahoma because Reagan beers left Oregon state.

Famously, wait, can you see this?

But I do, she's so good and I think Oklahoma, yeah.

So look at the beavers.

Shout out to the beads, man.

Always for me this year's Cinderella is Duke.

I don't even know if you can consider that a Cinderella,

but they've got a very hard path.

They're going to have to beat LSU in their in their way or their journey to try and take on UCLA.

But this is a team to me that matchup is probably the most exciting on the horizon for me.

Because first and foremost, drama, right?

The drama is Flage was in team USA this summer.

Wasn't getting any run.

Apparently declined our confidence.

And Carol Austin was like, you just weren't as good as everybody else.

And then LSU saw them in the regular season.

And it became this huge storyline.

She's yapping to Kara.

Kara's rolling their eyes.

Duke got absolutely destroyed.

And then Duke found their identity.

They rattled off what 16, 17 wins in a row.

They win the ACC.

They win the ACC tournament.

And now they've they've found, okay, we go inside to Toby for an yay.

We shoot timely threes.

We play a very specific style of very discipline basketball.

And LSU is very talented.

But what we know they are not as Kim Moky would say, sometimes they play wreck ball is my ball is ISO.

And when you can, you can't mock Kim Moky.

Yes, right?

So when you when you play a very discipline, well coach team like Duke is rolling.

It has the potential to be very spicy.

And so I'm going to take Duke in that one.

I'll say it.

I'm ready for all the big dogs to and I know it's not happening because that's not how women

basketball works.

But like LSU South Carolina, you can like, it's enough, you know, oh, down.

Sorry.

Someone has to hate them.

Someone's got to be a hater.

Oh, right.

Always be the hater.

Yeah.

Sorry.

I don't hate them.

But I will be a hater to be clear, although shout out to Tessa Johnson on South Carolina.

I didn't need to say that earlier.

Okay.

I don't try to save it now.

She hope you lose, Tessa.

Are there any teams you think will meet the moment this year and surprise fans?

Ashton will go with you first.

I want so badly for that to be a possibility.

But I just, I think we're going to see zero upsets.

I don't think anyone's going to upset.

I know people are saying South Dakota state and I guess like I'll be along for the ride

because I would die for an upset.

But I don't feel it in my bones.

I love me.

I love you.

I love you, my husband.

True hooper, baller, gamer, whatever skips you to call a brunt, not being.

She is at the same time.

TCU will lose to you.

See San Diego.

Take it to the bank.

And this is why because I said it right now.

I think the one, the one upset that I can see happening is Oklahoma over South Carolina

because we already saw it.

Don't even tempt me with that.

Anyway, I think Oklahoma could get the upset, although I think South Carolina is peaking

right now.

But let's move on to the most important category in the world.

And we're going to ask the man, who do you got winning the entire Shabuzy with the cowboy

boots?

Yukon, Yukon, Yukon.

I'm ready for someone else, but I mean, actually, honestly, the other option is South Carolina.

I would pull for Yukon anyways, because South Carolina has been pissing me off.

Today, I have turned into South Carolina's number one hater.

And I didn't even know this was within me, but it's my truth.

And that's why I am now.

Got to let it be.

I don't want to come out.

I actually got to feel it.

Whatever you feel, you got to just say, yeah, yeah, I just, I can't stand.

I can't stand a good team.

I'm sorry.

And my blood to only engage with and root for teams that just don't have the juice.

And I can't stand when a program does for multiple years too.

You already know who I got winning the whole thing, the whole Shabuzy with the cowboy hat.

I got South Carolina salute to the game.

You do not.

You actually think that's true.

Yes, I do think that's true because I put the shabuzy hat on it.

Did you not see I just put the shabuzy cowboy hat on it?

I just look.

I just took the shabuzy hat from you.

You no longer have the shabuzy hat.

You right?

You right?

You hit me with my own move.

Damn it.

I still choose the Cox, though, because I believe in Don.

Listen, I don't care who you believe in on this team.

This Yukon team might be end up the greatest Yukon team ever.

And I don't care.

Bismarch.

Listen, listen, hold up.

And I know that amaya more years, the Brianna story years, the DT and Sue years.

There's going to be a lot.

But it's hard to compete with like, it's hard.

34 and all versus 34 now, who who's the best?

I don't know, a lot of this team is back from last year.

They want to win it because they want to show page.

Hey, we don't need you.

I think Sarah Strong could go down as the best player in college basketball

history.

And she's only a sophomore.

She's going to win Naisman player of the year.

She's probably going to get the wooden award as well.

This is this is a girl who's the mini Yoke itch.

They've got AZ Fud, who's probably to me.

The number one pick in the draft.

She's the two way player.

She's only cover of self, by the way, doing pull ups.

Make sure you check that out.

She looks incredible playing incredible and doesn't like that sloppy.

You know what I'm saying?

This show has been magnificent because we had our sister join us today.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

Any last words before we get out of here, what do you want to promote?

Who do you want to cuss out?

What's a hater?

You want to be like, you know what?

Hater, I'll see you over there.

Yeah, I have a couple of things.

Number one, subscribe to the awful newsletter because I write it.

And it's fun.

Number two, if you're a billionaire listening to this, I want you to be

adored by the fact that you could pour in $20 million to a small team

and build someone else up from scratch.

And we wouldn't have to only have Yukon and South Carolina and LSU anymore.

Like, imagine what the world would look like.

That could be your thing, Mr. billionaire.

This could be all yours.

You would get all the credit.

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It'd be so fun.

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