Nancy Lieberman
Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
The Players' Tribune
5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
The legendary Nancy Lieberman, aka Lady Magic, joins the show! Her trailblazing career is one for the history books, y’all! From becoming a Rucker Park regular to representing the USA in the 1976 Olympics, Nancy broke barriers in the world of basketball on a regular basis. She looks back on her first time playing in Madison Square Garden, the surreal moment of her WNBA debut, and of course that time she played summer league for the Lakers under Pat Riley. Tune in for a glimpse into the life of a true basketball icon.
- Growing up in Queens, Muhammad Ali impact, 1976 Olympics (2:50)
- Old Dominion, Dallas Diamonds, David Stern and the WNBA (16:45)
- Women in coaching, Nancy Lieberman Award, Lady Magic nickname (36:30)
- Rucker Park nostalgia, 1976 team HOF (1:01:15)
- Pat Summit and Ann Meyers, growth of the WNBA (1:06:10)
About Our Hosts:
NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls.
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| 0:00.0 | First off, thank you, you know, to have basketball royalty, you know, on the show, we definitely appreciate. |
| 0:06.4 | Been a long time coming. We very, very excited to have you on the show. |
| 0:11.4 | Thanks, I've been waiting to do this for a long time. |
| 0:13.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:14.4 | So I have a question to ask you, uh, yeah, we asked all our guests, but it's different for you. |
| 0:20.9 | When you first got to the Olympics, who's the first person to bust your ass? |
| 0:25.2 | If that even happened. |
| 0:26.2 | Oh yeah, remember I was 17. |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 0:30.1 | Okay. |
| 0:31.1 | That's crazy. |
| 0:32.2 | So I get in the game, we're playing Russia. They're kicking our |
| 0:37.2 | ass, okay? They hadn't lost since 1958 and Yuleana Seminova Hall of |
| 0:42.3 | Famer 7 7-2, 280 pounds. |
| 0:45.0 | Sighi-2. |
| 0:48.0 | I come down, make a pass, it gets intercepted, it's a two-on-one and I kind of jabbed at the girl with the ball and |
| 0:58.7 | she gave it to Yuleana and she bam I picked up a charge I was like a pancake I was like a pancake I was like |
| 1:07.3 | get off of me yeah I don't think she understood New York I might have said something else, but I was like you get I was like 135. Yeah. And |
| 1:17.8 | this lady is like on top of me. That was the hardest hit I think I've ever taken even and I've taken |
| 1:26.8 | screens from like Mark Eaton or Carmelone in games. I was like, wow, it lit up my world when she hit me. |
| 1:37.0 | Yo, yo, we live on location. Me and the blackest one is in Las Vegas Nevada. It's hot as hell out here. We are out here for the |
| 1:47.4 | NBA Summer League 2024. We live inside 8 lounge in Resorts World, Las Vegas. |
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