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I'm not having plastic surgery.
Miami is a remarkably resilient, opportunistic team.
There are moments where you can be seduced by Andrew Wiggins.
If the NBA teaches us anything, you have to have talent to win.
My career is a very happy accident. I never studied communications.
Providence College was the perfect place for me. It changed my life.
And I loved every single second of being an assistant coach. I loved it.
I was, at times, painfully shy as a kid and all the way through college.
I used to nitpick Maya Moore for not getting to the free-throw line more.
There's not a shot in hell I ever thought I'd be a broadcaster for a living.
When my son was born, I was still playing in a summer league in Rhode Island.
When I was 7, we moved to Manasquan, where I picked up the game of basketball.
It is hard to put into words how grateful I am to continue my career with ESPN.
I feel like I've been playing, coaching and covering basketball my entire life.
I want girls to dream big and to think that there is nothing that is impossible.
A lot of tough players come out of Jersey. Tough-minded kids. That's what I was.
When I started my career, I can say my interviewing skills were not my strong suit.
If you're anything less than who you are and you're not authentic, people pick up on it.
It's always been helpful in my experience to just converse with the person in front of me.
You try to ask the best questions possible, but you don't necessarily control the outcome.
The NBA is the single most progressive, inclusive, open-minded sports league in the country.
You're going to feel every bit of Stan Van Gundy's frustration if his team had a tough quarter.
I always put my head down, work as hard as I can, and sort of let the chips falls were they may.
I've said this quite often, there was a certain stretch in my career where my gender held me back.
There's a reason Craig Sager is beloved, and it's the beauty and the magic of what Craig Sager does.
Listen, I want to be considered attractive. Am I going to undergo surgery to make myself younger? No.
I was a very shy kid. The only place I had confidence was in between the lines of a basketball court.
The NBA, and more importantly, the entire sport of basketball, has always been an inclusive environment.
One thing everyone knows about the NBA is that it's very difficult for young players to win at a high level.
I am mindful of the fact that I played women's college basketball, that I coached women's college basketball.
I feel like I lived my life in one of three places: at Indian Hill Park, at a Manasquan school or at the beach.
Honestly, it's been 25 to 28 years of just slow, methodical, taking step-by step progress. I've been very lucky.
The older I've gotten, the more I have paid attention to disparities, or what I consider to be different treatment.
My dad was a construction worker. I was the youngest of eight kids. There were not a lot of extra resources around.
I've loved basketball my entire life and to be able to cover this sport is a privilege that I don't take for granted.
From the time I was very little and I first picked up a ball, in the back of my head I thought I would coach the game.
I knew unequivocally I wanted children and that I wanted for at least a certain stretch of time to be a stay-at-home mom.
I do believe 100 percent that Black lives matter and that the cause to achieve and pursue equality supersedes basketball.
I'm thrilled that ESPN has been the leader in trying to find opportunities for women in visible and non-traditional roles.
I had an opportunity to go overseas and play professionally, but in the final game of my senior season, I blew my knee out.
If there's anything I'm proud of in my career, it's that I've been able to hang in there and keep progressing over the years.
Ultimately we all only have our reputation, and it is nothing more than a series of small decisions you make every single day.
Every telecast, I still have butterflies and a little bit of nerves. But I think the nerves help. It elevates my attentiveness.
In college, I had bad hair, bad clothes, bad teeth, and bad skin. That was not a great combination for being a sports announcer.
I've had more coaches in pregame meetings apologize for cursing. I'm like, I swear like a pirate. You don't have to worry about that.'
The reason I'm fiendishly drawing end-of-game plays when I'm taking notes is what if I screwed up something down the stretch of a game?
It's about time that a woman my age or above, if she chooses to go into her 60s as an announcer, she should be allowed to do just that.
I obviously preferred the analyst role to the sideline role because your opportunity to impact the broadcast was drastically different.
What makes great rivalries is when individual or team matchups occur, something's got to be on the line, and usually that's a championship.
I've been the beneficiary of very good timing and some forward-thinking bosses who were willing to put women in places they hadn't yet been.