August 15, 2025
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Leite: ‘Being there and like, feeling the joy, it offers you goosebumps, and it is so enjoyable’
On the newest episode of Locked On Women’s Basketball, host Chelsea Leite covers how the sport is rising across the globe. She additionally previews some upcoming WNBA video games, and extra!
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Leite opens the present by describing the environment in Vancouver, the place the Seattle Storm performed the Atlanta Dream within the league’s first ever Canada recreation. “It was nice to be there in individual,” Leite says. “As a lot as I really like overlaying the league from Canada, … on the identical time, simply being there and like, feeling the joy, it offers you goosebumps, and it’s so enjoyable.”
In a while, Leite offers a run-down of some updates popping out of the WNBA. “Indiana has been struggling,” Leite says, “however they did signal Odyssey Sims, who’s improbable, and I hope that she is ready to assist with the void that they’ve within the again court docket.” Leite additionally predicts within the present that the Golden State Valkyries would beat the Chicago Sky on Friday evening, and she or he received that one proper — the Valkyries defeated the Sky 90-59.
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Leite closes out the present by speaking about how particular it’s to have Canadian gamers enjoying within the WNBA. “Laeticia Amihere is right here enjoying, … Bridget Carleton, Kia Nurse,” Leite lists off, simply to call a couple of. “And there was such a like, lengthy checklist of people that have come earlier than them. … So yeah, it’s actually thrilling.”
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