Eu Rique Goombowale led Team WNBA to victory over Team USA by I score one seventeen to one oh nine Saturday night at the w NBA All Star Game. It wasn't even that close, ladies and jail. I'm tell y'all like that right now. Arique set a new scoring record with thirty four points in won of the game's MVP for the second time. It was a repeat performance of twenty twenty one when she beat Team USA and that All Star Game as well. All the chatter on social media afterwards was about why she was left off this year as Olympic squad as for this year's snub or, Goombowale acknowledged she withdrew herself from consideration due to quote politics behind choosing players. She shared her reasoning on the Nightcap podcast for My Brother Shannon Sharp and Chad O Chosenko Johnson before the All Star Game. Listen up.

Eu Rique Goombowale led Team WNBA to victory over Team USA by I score one seventeen to one oh nine Saturday night at the w NBA All Star Game. It wasn't even that close, ladies and jail. I'm tell y'all like that right now. Arique set a new scoring record with thirty four points in won of the game's MVP for the second time. It was a repeat performance of twenty twenty one when she beat Team USA and that All Star Game as well. All the chatter on social media afterwards was about why she was left off this year as Olympic squad as for this year's snub or, Goombowale acknowledged she withdrew herself from consideration due to quote politics behind choosing players. She shared her reasoning on the Nightcap podcast for My Brother Shannon Sharp and Chad O Chosenko Johnson before the All Star Game. Listen up.

When the list came out and your name wasn't on it, what was the first thoughts that go through your mind? Well, the thing is, I pretty much had an idea that I wouldn't be on it. So there's trials and stuff that go on throughout the years. And previous, and you do it and you see the vibes, and I mean me being me, being me, I just felt the vibes. Like, honestly, when it comes to that stuff, it really doesn't have much to do with your game. It's really about who they feel like fits with the team, which okay, I mean that's on the men's side too. You know, you could have said Kyrie could have made it and stuff like that, like they the committee say they look for people who you know. I don't know, honestly, but I could already tell like that wasn't the type of vibe they want. So I actually took my name out the pool like months ago.

When the list came out and your name wasn't on it, what was the first thoughts that go through your mind? Well, the thing is, I pretty much had an idea that I wouldn't be on it. So there's trials and stuff that go on throughout the years. And previous, and you do it and you see the vibes, and I mean me being me, being me, I just felt the vibes. Like, honestly, when it comes to that stuff, it really doesn't have much to do with your game. It's really about who they feel like fits with the team, which okay, I mean that's on the men's side too. You know, you could have said Kyrie could have made it and stuff like that, like they the committee say they look for people who you know. I don't know, honestly, but I could already tell like that wasn't the type of vibe they want. So I actually took my name out the pool like months ago.

So all I want to say to y'all is this, when I told you that Caitlyn Clark should have been on Team USA because of reasons that didn't have everything to do basketball marketing and all of this other stuff. Everybody was tripping. All of a sudden, we see Ogobawalle, who dropped thirty four points in the second by the way, who's the second leading scorer in the WNBA behind Asia Wilson. By the way, We sat up there and she's basically telling you politics, politics, politics. Of course, it plays a role. He plays a role in everything. Everything. When you look at on Goomawale and you see what she breaks to the table, you know she belongs on Team USA. When you saw what she did the Team USA, that's evidence that she belongs on the squad. Oh, by the way, when you think about Team USA, you're trying to tell me Kyrie Irvin shit be on that team. From a talent perspective, you think that he's left off the team because of basketball as opposed to tweets that he put out that might have offended the Jewish community at one time and how people were talking about that or some of the other things that he did. You look at Jaylen Brown, He's not on Team USA. Okay, conscientious brother good Man, don't bother anybody works hard as an elite player and now a champion. So he was an Eastern Conference Finals MVP, he was an NBA Finals MVP, and he doesn't get put on a team in a head of two of his teammates, and jew Holliday and Derek White. Really, you don't think that his social justice activism has something to do with that. You don't believe that what he said about Nike may have had something to do with that. Politics always plays a role in something. Ladies and gentlemen, when they're talking about fit, theyin't just talking about fit on the basketball court. They're talking about fit in the public arena, pr wise, because you're representing the red, white and blue, and the people who make those selections take all of those things into consideration. So Goombawale, I don't know what the reasons would be for leaving her off, but clearly she had some thoughts about it and she said it. I applaud her for it because it's obviously true. Let's talk about Team USA, man squad that overcame a fourteen point deficit to beat South Sudan one hundred one on one to one hundred this past weekend. Lebron James score to go ahead basket with about seven seconds left to secure the victory. ESPN Bet had Team USA as a forty three and a half point favorite over South Sudan. Look, International Competitions is national competition. And the players from South Sudan who qualified after beating and Gola last year, Okay, we get that they got players from New Zealand and Australia and other places. We get all of that. But in the end, here's what it comes down to. Team USA was favored about forty three points one by just one and who had to save the day for them as soon to be forty year old Lebron James. By the way, South Sudan hit about fourteen to thirty three from three point range. Team USA shot twenty five percent seven to twenty eight, miss twelve of their first fifteen three point shots. They ain't gonna get it done in the Olympic competition against what's waiting for them in Paris. I'm telling you that right now, and in the end, give South Sudan major props, major credit, all of that other stuff. But here's the bottom line. Do you know in South Sudan they don't even have indoor courts? Do you know this about there's no excuse for the game to be that close. And it ain't about all of this underestimating the competition. It's about the fact that they couldn't shoot the damn basketball. Now, Kevin Durant ain't there, And when Kevin Durant is, did, we know the last problem he's gonna have is actually shooting the basketball. So I expect better times to arrive. But take notes. If you don't shoot well from three point range, if you don't hit perimeter shots, you may be in jeopardy of not coming home with the gold. That's the lesson to take. He a about underestimating the competition. It's about the fact you asked, couldn't shoot That's the issue. Remember I said that. Meanwhile, Lebron James will serve as the flag bearer for the United States at the twenty twenty four something Olympics. Here's the moment Lebron James found out he will be the first US men's basketball player to be selected as flag bearer.

So all I want to say to y'all is this, when I told you that Caitlyn Clark should have been on Team USA because of reasons that didn't have everything to do basketball marketing and all of this other stuff. Everybody was tripping. All of a sudden, we see Ogobawalle, who dropped thirty four points in the second by the way, who's the second leading scorer in the WNBA behind Asia Wilson. By the way, We sat up there and she's basically telling you politics, politics, politics. Of course, it plays a role. He plays a role in everything. Everything. When you look at on Goomawale and you see what she breaks to the table, you know she belongs on Team USA. When you saw what she did the Team USA, that's evidence that she belongs on the squad. Oh, by the way, when you think about Team USA, you're trying to tell me Kyrie Irvin shit be on that team. From a talent perspective, you think that he's left off the team because of basketball as opposed to tweets that he put out that might have offended the Jewish community at one time and how people were talking about that or some of the other things that he did. You look at Jaylen Brown, He's not on Team USA. Okay, conscientious brother good Man, don't bother anybody works hard as an elite player and now a champion. So he was an Eastern Conference Finals MVP, he was an NBA Finals MVP, and he doesn't get put on a team in a head of two of his teammates, and jew Holliday and Derek White. Really, you don't think that his social justice activism has something to do with that. You don't believe that what he said about Nike may have had something to do with that. Politics always plays a role in something. Ladies and gentlemen, when they're talking about fit, theyin't just talking about fit on the basketball court. They're talking about fit in the public arena, pr wise, because you're representing the red, white and blue, and the people who make those selections take all of those things into consideration. So Goombawale, I don't know what the reasons would be for leaving her off, but clearly she had some thoughts about it and she said it. I applaud her for it because it's obviously true. Let's talk about Team USA, man squad that overcame a fourteen point deficit to beat South Sudan one hundred one on one to one hundred this past weekend. Lebron James score to go ahead basket with about seven seconds left to secure the victory. ESPN Bet had Team USA as a forty three and a half point favorite over South Sudan. Look, International Competitions is national competition. And the players from South Sudan who qualified after beating and Gola last year, Okay, we get that they got players from New Zealand and Australia and other places. We get all of that. But in the end, here's what it comes down to. Team USA was favored about forty three points one by just one and who had to save the day for them as soon to be forty year old Lebron James. By the way, South Sudan hit about fourteen to thirty three from three point range. Team USA shot twenty five percent seven to twenty eight, miss twelve of their first fifteen three point shots. They ain't gonna get it done in the Olympic competition against what's waiting for them in Paris. I'm telling you that right now, and in the end, give South Sudan major props, major credit, all of that other stuff. But here's the bottom line. Do you know in South Sudan they don't even have indoor courts? Do you know this about there's no excuse for the game to be that close. And it ain't about all of this underestimating the competition. It's about the fact that they couldn't shoot the damn basketball. Now, Kevin Durant ain't there, And when Kevin Durant is, did, we know the last problem he's gonna have is actually shooting the basketball. So I expect better times to arrive. But take notes. If you don't shoot well from three point range, if you don't hit perimeter shots, you may be in jeopardy of not coming home with the gold. That's the lesson to take. He a about underestimating the competition. It's about the fact you asked, couldn't shoot That's the issue. Remember I said that. Meanwhile, Lebron James will serve as the flag bearer for the United States at the twenty twenty four something Olympics. Here's the moment Lebron James found out he will be the first US men's basketball player to be selected as flag bearer.

Check it out on behalf of the entire men's Olympic basket team. We would like to nominate Lebron James to be the flag bearer for all our team USA. He got that honor, so you can get that way of the flag in Paris, man.

Check it out on behalf of the entire men's Olympic basket team. We would like to nominate Lebron James to be the flag bearer for all our team USA. He got that honor, so you can get that way of the flag in Paris, man.

Man, ladies, and gentlemen. He deserves that honor. I got Michael Jordan as the greatest basketball player whoever lived. That got Lebron James right behind him at number two. You could throw Kareem in there because he's got a better resume than everybody. I get that, But when you consider Lebron James coming into the NBA at seventeen, eighteen years of age, being on the cover of Sports Illustrated labeled the chosen One, when that was considered the being tannemo out to the black cat, run around, bad luck, woul ultimately come your way. And then you take a look at the expectations that were heaped on his shoulders and how he's exceeded it. Ten NBA Finals appearances, four NBA Championships, four League MVPs, the greatest scorer in the history of basketball, a perennial All Star, a marque whose box office and shows up and answers the call night in, night out, spanning over twenty one years. He is the epitome of a great, great role model. And when you talk about the United States of America having somebody to represent them as the flag bearer, there is no athlete, there is no athlete that deserves that honor today more than Lebron James. Salute to the King, congratulations. He deserves it.

Man, ladies, and gentlemen. He deserves that honor. I got Michael Jordan as the greatest basketball player whoever lived. That got Lebron James right behind him at number two. You could throw Kareem in there because he's got a better resume than everybody. I get that, But when you consider Lebron James coming into the NBA at seventeen, eighteen years of age, being on the cover of Sports Illustrated labeled the chosen One, when that was considered the being tannemo out to the black cat, run around, bad luck, woul ultimately come your way. And then you take a look at the expectations that were heaped on his shoulders and how he's exceeded it. Ten NBA Finals appearances, four NBA Championships, four League MVPs, the greatest scorer in the history of basketball, a perennial All Star, a marque whose box office and shows up and answers the call night in, night out, spanning over twenty one years. He is the epitome of a great, great role model. And when you talk about the United States of America having somebody to represent them as the flag bearer, there is no athlete, there is no athlete that deserves that honor today more than Lebron James. Salute to the King, congratulations. He deserves it.