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Welcome Queen Egbo, Hamby Headed to Paris
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Queen Egbo joins the Sparks on a hardship contract in response to the Cameron Brink season-ending injury. Dearica Hamby takes Cam's spot on the USA 3x3 team.
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:01
Speaker
What's going on Sparks fans and welcome back to the spark. You already know is DJ Tracy trees. And I am here with another episode of my personal fan favorite podcast for the LA sparks. Y'all we have a lot to talk about since last week. A lot has
Sparks' Road Trip and Cameron Brink's Injury
00:00:16
Speaker
happened. The sparks are still on this long, long, long road trip. I couldn't even imagine being away from my bed this long y'all they've played like eight or nine games, I think, and are still away from home. They played New York twice over the weekend, um had an injury along the way with Cameron Brink going down with the ACL tear um and signed a new play. I mean, it's like almost a whole world of basketball has happened and they still are not home. They still got one game left on the road trip that'll be played this Friday in Phoenix against the Mercury at the footprint center.
00:00:51
Speaker
Yo, let's just start from the top and just rip off the bandaid with the Cam Brink news, y'all. It was announced that Cameron Brink had an ACL tear during the game. Um, I can't remember which game it actually happened. It was like two games ago. But, um, so she is out for the season. We haven't received any updates on when she'll be back. Uh, big prayers out to cam hoping for a speedy recovery. Um, don't come, you know, don't rush, rush. Cause I mean, to let's be honest, these college players, when they enter the WA draft, they're, rushing, right? Cam Brink was playing in the NCAA tournament and then playing USA basketball, went to clean out her dorm room, did training camp with the LA Sparks, um and then was going to play in Paris for the Olympics ah on the break that she had during the WNBA. So it's like even then she wasn't going to get a break. So we want to wish Cam as much rest and recovery as possible. The Sparks are in the rebuilding year.
00:01:55
Speaker
She's going to have to overcome that injury, but I know she'll come back stronger. She's got a lot of support in the sparks, um, as well as so much support with people like DeErika Hanby and other people who are on her team who are constantly always rooting for her. So big prayers out to the, the, I'm sorry, not Derek Hamby, Cameron brink. All right.
Olympic Changes and All-Star Voting Dynamics
00:02:17
Speaker
Since I'm talking about the Erica Hamby, she's on the top of my mind as I was clicking the article here because she will be taking Cam's place in the women's three on three
00:02:27
Speaker
Olympic Games, y'all, in Paris. Diarica has had much success with three-on-three women's basketball. She's won a gold medal already, so excited to see her play in that spot as well. um Very much well deserved. And I was looking forward to her having a break there, too. um But it looks like now, how does this play out with the All-Star thing? Because if you haven't been voting for All-Stars, this is the time to vote right now. Uh, the all-star game, the Olympic team will be playing the WNBA all-star team, which is kind of weird because all of the WNBA all-stars is on a damn Olympic team. So.
00:03:05
Speaker
It's going to be like second string all stars. That makes sense because most of the the starters for the, the all stars are on there with a little bit of exceptions, but okay. But it's fan voting. There are some, some media votes that might offset that. So it looks like Caitlin Clark is going to be all star. I'm not saying she doesn't deserve it, but you can very clearly see she's like Alyssa Thomas is way down on the list. Like. what What are we doing here?
Sparks' Performance and Strategy Adjustments
00:03:30
Speaker
You know, that kind of thing, that kind of thing happens over and over, but let's talk about the sparks. Y'all the sparks haven't won a game since June 9th. It has been a rough month. We've been talking to coach a lot about the adjustments that he can make me a game. He's now lost. Cameron Brink, um, signed a hardship contract with queen egg bowl.
00:03:51
Speaker
On Saturday night at midnight, going into the game, uh, day for Sunday, Queen flew from Houston, l LA overnighted Carly Samuelson's old Jersey, duct taped it and sold the duct tape over it because they didn't even have time to make a Jersey. That's how fast this went down. She actually played in that game on Sunday, only had two points, played a couple minutes, got a good rebound, already showing some kind of impact, but I'm sure coach wants to get some of that much needed practice in to to get her a part of the schemes and and and get her into that rotation. The good news is she comes from Connecticut. Coach is used to Playing with players from Connecticut, as you know, he came from there, built a lot of those systems. So I do think it'll be a little bit easier. He really likes her physicality and the things that she can bring to the game. Same here. We're excited to see how she develops and grows so far.
00:04:42
Speaker
A lot of these losses have been because we've been playing great teams, right? The, we started off the loss against the Seattle storm. They're playing amazing right now. The Minnesota links who are also an amazing start. The dream that one slipped away from us. at like Atlanta dream. We absolutely, absolutely can beat the Atlanta dream. Ryan Howard, which is one of their stars also has an injury right now. So we could compete at a level as Arabian out. For instance, you know they're down one, we're down one kind of thing. ah Jordan Canada is back into their rotation, which is, ah she didn't play when we played them on June 16th, but she's now back in there and they're playing a lot better. um But that was that's that was one of the games that slipped away from us. um We played the Connecticut Sun and only lost by nine points. That's a huge thing for us. you know We could compete with those high intensity teams that are at the top. And then we played the New York Liberty twice, which are the number one team at the WNBA right now, and we lost both of those games.
00:05:36
Speaker
Headed into Phoenix, hoping we can pull that one out, but they've been on a streak as well. um Excited to see the team get some rest, come back to crypto, get some practice in, and be able to make some of these adjustments.
Team Development and Season Progress
00:05:49
Speaker
We've got Queen Eggbow, who's a new player, De'Erika Hamby, who is up for all-star. Make sure you go to your WNBA app and vote De'Erika Hamby for all-star. She's also gonna be playing in the Olympics, and um the Sparks move to four, and what are we, four and 19? Four and 13, I'm sorry, we ain't played that many games. Four and 13.
00:06:09
Speaker
Not the best season so far, but you're gonna watch a lot of basketball. It's developing. It's honestly kind of cool to watch a team that you know has um newer talent. This team is newer playing together and you're watching them put the pieces together. It's okay that we're not playing the best right now. Coaches is adding that intensity for the players and everybody's taking accountability for their actions and growing every single game when they come on the press
Upcoming Games and Streaming Plans
00:06:32
Speaker
conferences. So I'm excited to see what's happening with the Sparks and to see where we grow from here, especially with adding Queen Egg Bowl and having Lee come into the game and slide into the the the five position as well. So much more basketball stuff is coming, y'all. Thank y'all so much for tuning into the Sparks. I want to mention, before I get off of here though, I will be live streaming on my channel all men's and women's basketball events.
00:06:59
Speaker
So if you need somebody to keep you company while watching those games, I'll be live streaming and giving my two cents. Maybe do a little play by play. We'll see how I feel, but it's really a place that you can just come and chill while the Olympic games are all now on their own weird times. Of course, because it's in Paris, but I got you.
Engagement and Closing Remarks
00:07:14
Speaker
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00:07:36
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