Olympic Landscape: Team USA Women’s Basketball Talk with Jackie Young

PARIS – Welcome to , a video series during which Andscape columnist William C. Rhoden, senior NBA author Marc J. Spears and Andscape/ESPN commentator Arielle Chambers discuss key topics affecting Black athletes and culture on the 2024 Paris Olympics.

In this special episode, Chambers sits down with USA Basketball point guard Jackie Young, a three-time WNBA All-Star and two-time WNBA champion with the Las Vegas Aces. Young discusses the experience of playing within the Olympics after the postponement of the 2021 Tokyo Games, her favorite non-basketball activities in Paris (0:49), what it’s prefer to be within the Olympic track and field arena (1:03), finding her role on Team USA’s dominant roster (1:45), what’s left on her to-do list for Paris and the remaining of the 12 months (2:59) and the way she plans to contribute to Team USA’s legendary popularity.

— Episode 4: Sprinter Conversations Noah Lyles, Sha’Carri Richardson and the Spectacle of the 100 Meters.
— Episode 3: USA Gymnastics, USA Basketball’s Chances of Losing, and the Sports the Games Need
— Episode 2: Conversations across American women’s sports, from gymnast Simone Biles to sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson.
— Episode 1: USA Basketball Talk, Opening Ceremony.
— Special: We have fun what would have been the a centesimal birthday of creator and essayist James Baldwin.