Since 2015, when she decided to stop playing overseas the five-time Olympic gold medalist has been testing out various options for her life after the hardwood.
"I was really starting to try new things out, whether it was commentating, I worked in an NBA front office—just really trying to see what I liked, what I didn't like, and go from there," she explained. In the past seven years, her perspective has shifted "and I think having the conversations that Megan and I have when we're just chilling on the couch, you start to get to know yourself better, you start to see what interests you and this became a natural direction.
Doing it alongside her favorite teammate was an easy yes. "I feel like we've both gained so much from the other's perspective and learning from that and being challenged," noted Bird. Plus, they've already had plenty of practice. Said Rapinoe, "I think that all these conversations that we have, they were like little mini business meetings."
That their work will place them in the same zip code more often is just a bonus. After years of living at the mercy of "the schedule gods," Bird joked, and hoping her games at home with the Seattle Storm would line up with when Rapinoe was on the pitch with the city's OL Reign, "It will be good to have time together where we can kind of get more focused on things like this.
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