Transcript of GOOD FOLLOW: Chennedy Carter Gets WAIVED, Skylar Diggins Takes to Instagram & More!

Hey, welcome back to Good Follow presented by DraftKings Sports. Now let me repeat that, eric eric, presented by DraftKings Sports. I am the Kid Juju Gotti, joined by my sister Trista Crick. As always, how are you doing, sis?

Just touched down in Las Vegas, Juju, the home of the Las Vegas Aces. May come out and catch a fever Aces game in the next couple of days. We'll have to keep a close one on that, but I'm here for Summer League, but I'm also for the W.

Let's stick right in Las Vegas. Headline news, man, broke my damn heart. Kennedy Carter has been waived by the Aces, man. What is your first thoughts? I saw you was live when this news happened with our sister Carrie Champion. Salute. What is your thoughts behind this, bro?

It's a sad situation because you're talking about someone who's so skilled. You're talking about someone who's just a certified bucket. Me and you were very excited about this decision to bring her in, to envelop her in a place where the culture is championship DNA level, and for, for her to be waived, not even to be moved or traded, for some of the ways that it already started at the beginning of the season where she was talking a lot out of school, out of line with what the Vegas Aces normally allow, the stuff on social media where A'ja's online being like, I think it's time for you to log off. It felt like the writing was a bit on the wall. And Juju, I'd love to get your thoughts on this, but it's like, if you can't make it in a place like Vegas where they're giving you all of the tools, all of these champions to take you under their wing about what it means to be a pro, then I don't know what WNBA team you'll fit on.

Right, bruh. And like you say, the wording behind it, my dog been waived, because the folks at the Vegas Aces facility, they not idiots. They know that without a lot of information attached to why she's been waived, it's gonna cause us to think that, damn, my dog was a headache again in the locker room. And so for them to not lend no voice to the contrary, I feel like it's very, very revealing because they would have got in front of that if not, in my opinion. I could be wrong, and I hope I'm wrong, but for them to know what we was gonna think when this happened and to make it so vague— no trade either, man. Damn, bro, it just— it break my heart for my dog. Hopefully I'm wrong as hell and my dog is right now being pursued by a team and she makes that roster, but damn, this is definitely tough to come back from here, bro.

Would you— I heard that they scoured the entire league looking to trade her.

Man, man, man. But how about this? Because we been faithful and we've been trying to have faith in sis. Could this, or should this have been expected? Like, that's the question. Because in my opinion, I was like, bro, if anybody get in trouble this year, I know who ain't. But damn, should we have expected this, dog?

It's so hard for an adult to change their behavior and their patterns, you know, and you need to do a lot of work. I mean, as someone who's gone through therapy on my end, I know Juju, you, you understand what it's like to work on yourself as well. And like, we have things that trigger us, we have things that cause us to act outside of our own minds, you know, and mental health is a real thing. Just because you're elite at putting the ball into the hoop and elite at breaking somebody down off the dribble and can rebound and is an athletic freak and like can defend and all these things that we know Kennedy's always been able to do, that doesn't mean that everything is everything upstairs. And I think like this is a wake-up call. I, I don't know what it is. I don't know what you're dealing with, but like this is a time to find people to support you, to get you to— if this is what it is, which I think it is— to get the somebody around you or somebodies around you to like put you in a position to stop making these decisions and stop getting in your own way because you're that talented.

And we're seeing this also, Juju, with Skylar and like her getting in her own way.

When that phone be ringing off the hook with them wake-up calls, It'd be fire. But sometimes them calls slow down, and now them wake-up calls even— they don't even come to your room no more. It's expected for you to wake your behind up on your own. So I'm— I fear that my sis might be out of wake-up calls, bruh. Luckily though, she is a legend in China, or where— where is it? Hong Kong? Beijing?

I think she was— oh, as well, she was like Mexico, Mexico City. She was in China. Like she went on a world tour last year, Juju, and she was balling. But guess what? When there's— when, when not everybody else speaks English and you speak English, a lot of problems go away.

You feel me? They be like, wait, what'd you say? You like, oh no, I said I love you. But yeah, man, moving on, bro. You hit it right on the head. My dawg Skylar Diggins is not necessarily happy right now. She took the Instagram and shared a wee bit of frustration. You did with the sky, saying that, hey man, I done been sat to the bench, man. I'm about to something on the damn bench, bruh. What you think about Skyler, bro?

She also said, Juju, I don't know if you saw her roaming around the streets of Phoenix, the scene of the trauma. Gets off the plane and goes, goes on Instagram stories walking around with palm trees in the background, bruh.

Did you see the quality of that camera? Bro, who shot this?

And the crazy part about it all is that I've been so quiet. I've been so good and quiet. I've been so good and quiet.

What's your first thought seeing this? Because a couple weeks ago we predicted that, hey man, y'all might need to free my dog before it get too crazy up there, and we weren't far from wrong.

Listen, they didn't— they They didn't bench her for no reason. This is how she— what she did to react to being benched, okay? All alone when she's supposed to be with the squad. Why aren't you with the team right now?

Where is Sydney Taylor right now, bro? Does anybody have eyes on you?

You shouldn't be out wandering Phoenix, okay? You're supposed to be at practice.

Oh, but we forgot though, Phoenix, that's her hood for real. She been there, done that in them streets. So she probably bit Skyler in them streets.

I know that it's like a tough thing. You go back to the scene where a lot of frustrations and trauma live. You find out you've been benched when you touch down, you know, you get on Instagram Live. The question that I have is, You know, it's not because of Sloot. Sloot knew they were— they knew they were gonna play together. Yeah, they knew that that was gonna be the case. They figured out a way to have Sloot, Tosh, and, and Sky all together. They knew what time it was.

Well, let's get to the logistics because I— we guessing no matter what. Do you think that this was a justified move from Tyler Marsh? Because yes, it's gonna cause a stir anytime you have to sit one of your vets down, you feel me? They get that first taste of that bench. But going forward, right, Lissetta?

Listen, you're not about to flash on me and think I'm gonna start you.

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Oh, fühlt sich das nach Sommer an! Die neue Sommerwäsche von Tchibo begeistert mit leuchtenden Farben und fröhlichen Prints. Feine Spitze, leichte Mikrofaser und sommerliche Schnitte sorgen für pures Wohlgefühl, selbst an heißen Tagen. Entdecke jetzt die neue Wäschekollektion von Tchibo und finde deine Lieblingsstücke für den Sommer. Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, I have to enact some level. These people don't respect me, okay? They don't respect me as a coach. You're out here like saying in the press conference that our half-court offense stinks because of me. Like, Listen, you're not about to just say whatever you want to me and think that the one piece of power that I have, I'm not going to use, which is sit down. Let's see.

Nah, nah, nah. Juju, this is funny. This is hilarious. I'm laughing because this is hilarious, ladies and gentlemen. What'd you say?

If you're in charge of the team, yeah, and somebody flashes at you in public, yeah. Okay, just hypothetically, okay, are you gonna start them the next game, man?

See, look, this is what I do. I'm gonna start them the next game, but I'm gonna just make sure I get this apology in front of all these folks you flashed on me in front of before we do anything. Look, all of this is speculation. I don't even know if none of this happened. We talking about me, so I don't know, bro. I just think that sometimes, bro, you just— I think my boy Tyler was probably just tinkering with the lineup. You feel me? Because now we got Snoop Doggy Dogg back and Sid going crazy. Sid is giving us way more than we planned for before this season. You feel me? So I think that's more so what's going on than any kind of— what is it, like some kind of punishment or some kind of relegation or retaliation?

Okay, so let me ask you this. If it wasn't a punishment, yeah, uh, why did Skylar then say, I think I'm done putting my body on the line, and then was out Uh, for injury management.

Moving on, I think let's check out, yeah, I mean, the little mid-season form that the Seattle Storm has had, has had lately. Because now a little bit of confusion from me at times watching them play. Some nights Flau'jae is LeBron damn James. I think Kevin Durant need to sit courtside every, every Seattle Storm game. Some games she don't shoot the ball, you dig? And I get it, she a rookie, so we judging on this scale anyway. But the rest of the roster construction, what do you think so far about how Seattle has handled this, this first half of the season?

I think they have the chance to be really good. I think their roster, they have a bunch of pieces that are individually quite good. The question that I have is like, are we buying? And I want to hear you as a hooper, uh, Juju. Not like what could be, right? But what you think will be the outcome of, uh, Awafam Ezi Magbigor and Dominique Bolonga on the team at the same time. Yes, do they play differently than one another? Sure, they're not twins, but do they also occupy the same position and have similar things that limit them that they can't do that if they played a different position they would have to do?

And we talk about Ezi and A'whaa mostly because Dom is just a generational talent. We can't really put her on the list.

But, but, but is Ezi gonna cut into Dom's minutes at all?

Oh, I don't, I don't think so. When it's going, when it starts mattering, I don't think so. Hopefully they can win and put a couple of wins together so it does matter by the end of the season this year. But if it starts mattering, I'm thinking we gonna see that killer lineup that we expect. Awa, Ezi, Dawn, Flau'jae, uh, and T, you feel me, at the point guard. Salute to Jay. Jay been— Jay Melbourne been one of them ones this year for me because she come off the bench with that spark every time. But I think if it comes down to it, that's the lineup we gonna see. And I don't necessarily see too many problems with the potential, like you said, of the lineup. Now what we seeing right now currently, I think we seeing a, you know what I mean, somebody come back from injury and like the Skylar Diggins situation, we testing out some of these lineups to see which ones work. You did, what you think?

Yeah, I mean, I'm asking around the league because I'm asking everybody like, hey, you know, it's the same question that we all have when we see them. Yeah, people who evaluate talent that I trust, smart people. I'm like, oh, you think, you think Izzy, Izzy Dom and Awaa are gonna work together? Like, you think long term they're gonna share the floor together?

Yeah.

And like, I don't think I've heard one yes.

Oh, except for you.

And you could be right and they could be wrong. But I think just the thing that needs to be, they need to be held accountable for, number one, Number one, you, you totally miscalculated who the Minnesota Lynx were going to take because everybody knows you wanted Olivia.

No, that—

now, now everybody knows. I didn't know that just now. Put me on game.

They wanted Olivia. That was their— okay, the Lynx were supposed to take A'Waal in all the mocks, or Lauren, because they thought, you know, a lot of people who, you know, talk and write about basketball are like, oh, they need a big, they lost Chaz Shepherd, they lost— they lost Lambman. Like, they need somebody to help Fifi out for a bunch of the season. They just need another big. So that was what was— and then it was like, oh, Seattle's gonna get— Seattle's gonna get Olivia Miles. They're just so pumped about it. And then, and then, you know, Cheryl Reeve was sort of misdirecting the whole time, and then was pretty much always intending to take Olivia. And Olivia is very special. So then, then Seattle has to figure it out on the fly. Swoop! And then they take best available player, and Awa is special, and I think she could be transcendent. But you, you probably should have waited to pay Ezi like $1.25 million a year until after the draft, because you signed her a day before the draft. One day, 24 hours before, when you thought it was sweet, when you were gonna get Olivia Miles.

Secondly, then now you pivot and you go get Flau'jae, which I totally respect and love, but then you go out and spend a first-round pick on Tyena Mare, who at this point is 0.7 points per game, 0.7 rebounds per game, 0.7 assists per game, and you cored Ezi when you could have cored Gabby Williams. And so you could have had—

there we go.

Gabi, uh, you could have— you could have Kiki Rice, you feel me?

Oh, oh wow, I forgot all about Kiki. But this is instead of Awa though, you're saying?

And I'll be somewhere else thriving. Or you could have had Awa and no Ezi and figured it out.

I see what you're saying, I see what you're saying. It's a situation. You would ask Gabby, right? Because give me Gabby no matter what, a lot of times, you dig it? Yeah.

Can I say, but I was shocked. Juju, $1.25 million for 3 years for Ezi. Go get your bread, Marcus. Get that girl her bread, Marcus. But holy shit, I didn't know Ezi was a max player. And she was, listen, second team all-defense, 10th in the league in blocks. We love Ezi.

I got a question. All right, how long has Ezi been in the league? I can't, off the top of my head. What year is this for Ezi?

6.

This is Ezi's 6th year right now?

6th, 7th year. I think she has 6 years of experience.

And how old is Ezi? I think she's 26. Damn, see, I was finna play the man. She just got here not too long ago.

Look, bro, hopefully they get it together. I hope—

like, it's looking good right now for me. I don't know what they're seeing. You did— they probably looking down the road and they seeing what you're saying. Mathematically, we could have been what we are. And that Gabby Williams tape does not help matters because I don't give a damn where Gabby Williams wanted to go. Sis, you with us until the paper says why we franchise tag players.

If the NFL looked at their players and they were like, well, I don't want to play for the Jets anymore, it's like, I'm sorry, Quinnen Williams, you're getting franchise tagged. People get tagged one after, like, year after year after year. They're getting tagged.

Exactly, bro. I'm so sorry, Gabby. We got some green and yellow for you, sis. I'm so sorry. We'll get you a new windbreaker, but you're gonna be playing in Seattle. You might be a little sleepy.

We're the only ones that can offer you the real bread.

It's now time for the DraftKings Sports Pick of the Week, presented by DraftKings Sports. This week we watching the New York Liberty take on them girls— excuse me, pardon me— the Minnesota Lynx this Saturday. Who we watching, sis?

I'm watching Sabrina Ionescu, Juju, because she's looking like her back and her legs and her ankles are right. I've seen the little wiggle, I've seen the step back, and if Sabrina's fully healthy— I know they just lost to the Wings and they got smacked down— I'm watching Sabrina fully because I'm also watching Nastia.

On the Lynx side of things, On Washington, it's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's Big Dorca Juhasz back in the streets. Keep your eye on sis because I think she want to make an immediate impact because it's a lot going on over there in Minnesota. She got that UConn blood in her and it's time to put up or shut up in that West. And I think sis plan on putting up, especially this Saturday. You dig it? And that right there, this segment is presented by DraftKings Sports. DraftKings Sports, now available in all 50 states. 50 of them things, man. The crown is yours. And that's gonna be it for this week's episode of Good Follow, man. Make sure to subscribe to all the Good Follows YouTube pages, social pages, every page you can think of. We there at Good Follow Show.

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