- FEMALE NARRATOR: Previously on Basketball Wives.
- We need to get to a good place where we still can
trust each other when it comes to Dash.
- 'Cause our main priority is this little one right here.
- I agree. - You know what I'm saying?
- Me and French, we have all these shows coming up,
so I just want to rehearse.
- A couple of months ago you were like, "I'm done."
End of the day you know, we got her,
I want you to be home.
- If I ever did say I was gonna quit, like, how would you feel?
- Understand that if you leave, you can't come back.
- I'ma think about it.
- Do you want to get married now?
Because there were some words going around
that you're not happy, Angel.
- What?
- Did you talk to Duffey?
She shared this information with me.
- If Duffy wanna get aired out,
she will get aired out,
her relationship will be done today.
- I did things out of care and concern for Angel and Rocc.
- Why are you guys having a conversation
about my man and my relationship?
I'm not having these conversations
about y'all men.
- It's okay.
- ♪
- Angel.
- Hey, I'm back here. Oh my gosh.
- Angel, this store is amazing.
- You like it? - This is so cool.
You have a whole factory in here.
- I know, we make everything in house,
like sample making, and everything else.
I'm doing tour, you know, like Megan Thee Stallion.
- You make a lot of stuff for her, I see.
This is amazing. I love a woman that's on her shit
when it comes to business. - Thanks, babe.
- So, are you okay from yesterday?
Like, did they stress you out too much?
- Yeah, because I'm like,
"Why is my relationship being discussed so much?"
You know, it was just like,
I don't do that to nobody else.
- I am not surprised that Jackie has been meddling
in Rocc and Angel's relationship,
she's been meddling in Me and Lorenzo's for ten years,
but I know how to laugh her off.
Everybody else doesn't.
- For me, the hardest part was for Rocc to hear that.
You know what I mean?
- And I told Jackie,
"You could have told her that alone."
- Yeah, and she's like, "Sorry,"
like, no, your sorry's don't mean shit.
You know what I mean, when you're saying it like that.
I don't want an apology, I want some respect.
I need to take a break from the girls,
because I have so much going on in my life, you know?
I've got my kids, I've got my man to worry about,
and we're getting ready for a new baby,
so I need to really focus on everything that's important
to me right now.
- You know, Jackie when she start Jackie-ing,
it be something different,
but she's coming from a good place most of the time.
- Well you guys got into it, too.
From what I heard, she was telling you something about
getting back with Lorenzo, and I'm like "Why?"
- Jackie is so, wants me to be with Lorenzo.
- You and Lorenzo are completely done?
- You damn right!
Jackie, what you got to say?!
- I really want to see you with Lorenzo.
- Jackie, we are broken up!
- She doesn't understand when things transpire and spiral
so out of control that there's no fixing it anymore.
- She was like that with me and my daughter's father.
Same with Tyreek, like, "Work it out," like, how?
- I would love for my daughter to have her father
be in the household, of course I would love that.
Ever since Lorenzo told me he ended
his domestic partnership with his ex,
things have got a lot better between us.
Now that Lorenzo's still in St. Louis,
and I'm now in Los Angeles, we're trying our best
to be able to co-parent effectively.
- Have you been eating McDonald's every day?
- Yes. No, I had oranges.
- You had oranges? Okay, okay, that was good, then.
- You know, you really been doing better with
this co-parenting thing.
- We have tried our best to be the best parents we can be
to Dash, but I don't know if me and Lorenzo
should be back together.
If Lorenzo could change, I would have no problem.
- Really?
- I always loved my baby daddy, I ain't gonna lie to y'all.
But, you know--
- Well listen, I'm with you, whatever you decide to do,
I'm with you, you know?
- And when you and Rockstar decide to get married,
I definitely will be there.
- Okay, okay.
- ♪
- What's up?
- Just texting.
- Texting who?
- Work. - Oh.
- How's work been going? - Great.
- My man, Iman, is a basketball sports agent,
he's changed the lives for many families,
putting them in the right position to be able to really
make money and grow in the sport of basketball.
You making money? - Always. What's up?
- Oh yeah, at Brandi's food tasting,
first of all, okay, you know we did a food tasting,
'cause she's gonna have a cookbook,
but she was trying to think of like a name,
and my mind was like...
"Maximum Flavor."
- I like it. - You like it?
- Yeah.
- I see "Maximum flavor," let me see,
I would like to try it.
- I like the name.
- But you know I was telling you there was all this drama.
Jackie had a conversation with Angel.
She overexagerated what I said.
I was just like, "I'm really worried about Angel,"
you know, 'cause her and Roccstar was having issues,
Jackie was like, "Oh, Roccstar got really upset
when I said, you know, about the whole group was like
talking about his business and you kind of like
was the one starting it."
He was like "Yeah, she got one more chance
or I'm gonna make Iman leave her."
- He said these exact [bleep] words.
When he sees her he's going to air her the [bleep] out,
and her man is gonna want to [bleep] leave her the next day.
- I politely let the room know my man ain't going nowhere,
and if he's trying to insinuate that
I'm cheating on Iman, that is like a old tell
that me and Iman have been dealt with,
with people saying I'm with French Montana,
or I'm with this guy, I'm with that guy.
- I mean, all this is, Roccstar's too emotional
for his own good. I mean, his female business,
separate that from real issues.
- Roccstar can't say nothing that hundreds of thousands
of people haven't already said about me.
Iman knows my heart,
and so those things don't even phase us anymore.
Anyway, taking a trip to Vegas will, you know,
make me feel better.
'Cause you know me and French, we have a show.
- Mm.
Speaking of French, have you thought about our conversation?
About you being done DJing?
- What? I said that? - Yeah.
- Oh.
Um, I have been thinking about it, you know?
I'll commit to this being my final show as a DJ,
but I feel like I want to find another career to transition to.
But I mean, that is gonna take up a little of my time.
- I mean, you need to be home.
- I'm going to be doing something,
I'm not just gonna be sitting in the house.
Just so you know.
So I don't wanna disappoint you. - Nobody's saying that.
- I want to bring a lot to the table,
so we can really elevate as a family.
Growing up, I was taught to work hard,
my father was really tough on me,
and so for me to just sit around at home
and let a man pay for things, it just, it'll never be me.
- To me, the main thing is the family life
I'm having right now is what I was hoping
or what I was wishing I had when I was growing up.
- Like, this is important to me.
- Alright, if that's what you want to do, I'll support that.
- ♪
- Hi, guys. I'm so happy to have you here.
- I need a fun workout moment, so I brought
Jackie and June along, no arguments please.
- Hang time, huh?
- MALAYSIA: So, is it gonna be a good sweat?
- So, you're gonna take the hammock and lift up
your right ankle.
- Oh, lord. My leg.
- INSTRUCTOR: Is it still too tight?
Alright, let's start at the knee. Bend at the knee.
Bring it to the side, one side of the kneecap.
Alright, then we're gonna take the left leg back behind us.
Start to spin.
- Woo.
- Wait, how did you spin?
- Spin.
- What'd I do wrong?
- I have done flying yoga before--
- Right leg comes around - [bleep]
- I'm gonna have a nip slip any second,
I'm telling you guys.
I feel dizzy. Drea...
- Great job Malaysia, great.
- I actually have a swing in my basement.
- She's already ready to go upside down.
- I ain't freaky though.
- INSTRUCTOR: Alright guys, I feel like you are
professionals at this point, right?
- That was so much fun. - Oh my god.
- I needed that after all that mess
at Brandi's food tasting - What happened?
- People be trying to twist my intentions,
even when I'm just trying to help them out.
I'm gonna be very diligent going forward,
and speaking to the people,
'cause I know there's probably some people
that got some things they want to say to me,
and they just aren't, because they're like,
"We don't feel like hearing her big ass mouth,"
but I'm gonna address it,
because I care about all you guys.
- Listen, if you're passionate about something,
be authentic in that moment.
- I really feel like everybody needs to move ahead,
go forward from that drama that happened at the tasting,
and all that's been going on in the group.
- We can't just keep brushing stuff under the rug,
we know from years past that when we do that,
in this group, what happens?
It ends up being a blow up, you know?
- You are right. My old method was to just avoid it,
but I see that everyone don't really adapt to that
kind of things, so--
- But we got to start sharing some of this stuff
that is between us to get through it.
You know what, you guys?
I do a podcast, and I want to do one with all of us.
Where we're all there together,
and we just talk about life and what we're doing,
we're in the Basketball Wives family for life.
I feel like we start building the foundation
by coming together, and we can do it on the podcast
and everybody will feel like they're coming there,
they need to put it out on the table and no bullshit,
'cause I'm not gonna allow that,
you guys already know how I get down.
- I want to move in a positive direction.
- JACKIE: You're gonna be my guest of honor at the podcast.
- I think Jackie has the right idea when she says that
we need to communicate,
because I shove everything under the rug,
and that's when shit goes wrong.
- It's just gonna be a moment for us ladies to come together,
and let me handle everything.
- NARRATOR: Coming up on Basketball Wives...
- Rocc and I were talking about putting the baby stuff,
the basinet, the crib, in here in your room.
- Don't know about that.
- You are a [bleep] ass man,
that's why I don't want to have no conversation with you
[bleep] off and [bleep] you!
- ♪
- SALESMAN: Here we got our selection of mic's.
This is your-- - That's the one I have.
- Yeah, that's the SM7B.
It was the radio mic in the '70s.
And then you've got your Nuemann,
that's the Billie Eilish mic,
where she picks up all that nice little sexy whispering
- This is Jackie Marie Christine...
- I'm sorry.
- Welcome to my podcast, this is a basketball wife...
- JACKIE: You better cut it out.
- Hi, guys. - Hey, Noria.
How are you? - How are you?
- So yeah, I need to buy some stuff, because I want to get
the ladies together and do a podcast where we can all
kind of share our experiences.
The main topic of the conversation is
life after basketball. And during.
And I want to talk about the journey from playing
to you know, what they go to next,
and then to where they end up.
You know, my husband went from playing basketball to coaching.
Now, he's back on the road, like with coaching,
it feels like my husband's going off to play again.
- It's literally the same, but worse, because
they're working longer hours,
and even through the summers,
and the breaks that we get to have, coaches don't get them.
- Yeah, you know, I'm crying silently by myself.
A lot of people don't know about that,
so it's a lot that we go through,
let's just band together, y'all.
A lot of times, the women in the group do focus
on their differences, but we are all part of a basketball family,
and we should come together in that way.
So, in this podcast,
they're gonna see how similar we all are.
- I invited all the ladies, Malaysia will definitely
be coming.
Let me ask you, where are you guys right now?
Are you still kind of in the same place?
- I would say the latest thing, really,
that irritated me the most was bringing Zell around.
Anybody that bring Zell know what they're doing.
- Girl, stop talking to me. Stop talking to me.
- No, you shut up and you stop talking.
You almost tried to like set me up in a sense,
or you tried to play me, with having somebody be reckless.
Don't put the one that literally Rocked with you
the hardest and was by her side,
on the phone with her all day, every day, at night,
in the bed with my husband, we on the phone,
we face timing, we talking and everything else,
and you try to like, play me.
- JACKIE: I totally get it.
And we gonna work through it, however we have to.
We can make it through.
Relationships-- - Sad, thinking about it.
- This is the thing, you talking about it
is gonna work itself out.
- You work through your differences, Brandi,
and she's done some things, obviously,
that you feel was hurtful,
she feels you've done some things that was hurtful,
and that's, we--
- I haven't done nothing to her.
I been through so much in the last, like,
even couple of months, you know?
Like, dealing with my dad, like.
This week, I've been feeling really hormonal,
and I don't know what's going on with me,
but I don't hope to be back friends with Malaysia at all.
- I understand. - BRANDI: It's just a lot.
- We done been through a lot,
we been knowing each other for a very long time,
we in each other's life for the rest our lives,
so I hope this podcast is a time for us to be a sisterhood.
- We're here to support you,
whatever you need, we're here for you.
No matter what.
- ♪
- ANGEL: Azari, you found your phone?
- AZARI: Yeah, it was in the car.
- It was in the car? I just told you that.
- AZARI: I know.
- I'm taking a break from the girls right now
because I need to really focus on this pregnancy.
How was school? High school.
- I know. Nervous a little bit, but...
- ANGEL: Why?
- I don't know what to expect.
- Nobody's messing with you, right?
- No. - ANGEL: Okay.
Well, I wanted to talk to you about something.
- Okay, oh great.
- So, Rocc and I were talking, right,
about the baby and stuff, and um, how we're gonna,
you know, go about putting all his stuff,
the baby's stuff, the basinet, the crib, in here.
In here, in your room.
- Don't know about that. I don't know.
- Not to share a room with you or anything, but I was
just thinking maybe--
- I'd rather do that than him take my room.
- You would share a room with a baby?
- Yeah, I like my room. - No way.
A brand new baby? Like, stinky diaper...
- Oh, I'm not gonna change a diaper,
that's a little too much, but...
- I mean, what's wrong with the guest room?
- Mom, my room's bigger, you know what I'm saying?
- This room is a little bigger.
All the bedrooms are on the top floor,
and there's one extra bedroom on the second floor
that we use as a guestroom.
I can't have the baby all the way down
on a different floor from me,
how am I gonna keep going up and down, you know?
It doesn't make any sense.
If you don't want the guestroom, I mean,
the only other option would be the back house.
- Yeah, no, that's fine. I'm good.
- Azari, come look.
Come look at my situation, okay?
Amani's room is all the way down there, okay?
If I were to put her downstairs on the floor
by herself, that's like-- - Oh, she'll be fine.
- No, she won't be fine. - She has to get used to it.
- I'm gonna show you the guest house, let's do that. Come on.
Because you need to really think about this.
Could you imagine your own freedom?
Back house, like you don't have to worry about anything.
Can you imagine having your own privacy,
like away from us?
You don't have to hear a baby crying.
I feel bad, you know, but at the end of the day,
the guest house would be ideal for Azari
because he'll feel like he has more privacy
and he won't be bothered as much by us.
I mean, what high school boy wouldn't like his own house?
Look, look at this. Your own space.
Look, two bedrooms, you've got a gym in here.
You can work out every day.
You got your own view.
I mean, look at this.
You know there's nothing I don't do for you.
Look, you got your own basketball court
with your name on it, you know?
I want the best for you, you know.
I'm just kind of in a tight spot,
because I don't know exactly where to put the baby
and I want you to know that even when I do have the baby,
like I'm gonna do my best to, you know,
divide my time up with you, your sister, you know,
your new brother, you know, work and everything.
- Are you sure? 'Cause I don't want you to, you know,
be focusing on everybody else and not me.
You know, I don't want to feel like that.
I'm just saying, with Amani, when she was first born,
that was what I felt like. - Really?
- Yeah. - Why did you feel that way?
- Well, because, I don't know,
you probably just put more time on her, you know,
and I felt like you weren't putting time on me sometimes,
and you know, it would just get to me.
- You know, I know it's been a struggle for my son,
because his father hasn't been around.
I have something I want to talk to you about.
When we went shopping the other day,
and the guy was talking to me,
when he asked you about your father?
- Well, I don't know how to say it like he died,
I don't like to say that.
- No, don't cry. You do have a father.
Being a mom and dad his whole life has been hard for me,
but I do the best that I can, I've sacrificed a lot.
- Spending time with you is, like, important.
I mean, it would be cool if you could at least
come to my games too, though.
'Cause you're my mom,
and you're the only one I have, basically.
- Yeah.
- You don't have to feel bad, it's okay.
I know, I just, I know that, um, I work a lot, you know?
And I know I'm your only parent, you know
and that is, you know, like the responsibility
that I have, and I don't ever want you to feel any kind of
neglect or anything like that.
I feel guilty of course, as any parent does, you know?
But, it just means I just have to do better.
- AZARI: Are you okay?
- I'm sorry.
- NARRATOR: Coming up on Basketball Wives...
- Oh, hey Laysia.
- Hey, Momma. - Hey, my love. Hi, baby.
- Showing up late, this is just typical.
And it's just like, Malaysia, get your [bleep] together.
- ♪
- It is my dream and my hope and my truest desire
for these ladies to use my podcast
as not only a way to come together,
but to find common ground with one another.
But I certainly got my work cut out for me.
Hey.
- Okay. - JACKIE: You look amazing.
You smell so good. Girl, I haven't seen you in a minute.
I'm glad you came here a little early,
because I wanted to know how are you feeling since
everything that happened? - Girl, it's like--
- Come get a drink, come get a drink.
- The situation, it's just like confusing to me.
The way Angel seemed so upset,
the way Roccstar disrespected me
and was threatening, like, my relationship,
I just wanted to leave that situation behind--
- Me too.
- DUFFEY: I'm good on Roccstar.
I don't have to hang out with him,
and at the end of the day, last time I checked,
whenever I'm in the bed, I don't never see Roccstar
to the right or the left,
so he shouldn't know nothing about my personal business.
- What I want to tell you is...
I need to drink the rest of this.
I was trying to hold on,
so I could have it during the podcast.
- DUFFEY: Have you spoke to Angel?
- You know what? I have spoke to Angel.
- ANGEL: I just felt like a lot of the girls
and everybody was just in my business a lot.
- I'm so sorry, Angel, and I might have, you know,
overstepped my bounds a little bit.
And um, she was just kind of like,
"Jackie, I just really want to know,
are you sure that you really told me that?"
And I said, "Of course." And she was like, "Okay."
But, she has a lot going on, so she couldn't make it today.
- I mean, I wish Angel was going to be here,
I want to work this out soon,
because it might ruin our friendship.
- I'm so glad about today,
and I'm so glad we're gonna get to share in our life.
- You know what I love about podcasts compared to radio,
is you can say what the -- you want to say.
- Why don't you do one?
'Cause I know you're talking about retiring from DJing,
that's another outlet you can build that'd be in your alley.
- I'm thinking about executive produce my album.
I want to be like a female DJ Khaled,
'cause I have an ear.
DJ Khaled went from being just a DJ,
he now executive produces his own record.
If I'm producing, I get to be in the studio
and be close to my family,
and I don't have to go on a 40-day tour.
- You're gonna kill that. That's right.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
Cheers mamacita.
- ♪
- Hey!
You look nice. - Thank you, you look cute.
- How you think this podcast is gonna go today, honey?
- I know what the subject is supposed to be, but--
- What is it supposed to be? - Life after basketball,
or life being a basketball wife, or something like that.
- Okay.
- Hey now, hey! - Hi, nice seeing you again.
- Can we have another champagne for Brandi, please?
Thank you.
I just want y'all to know that this week,
me and Lorenzo are on good terms,
I texted her I said, "What you doing?"
I said, "What you doing?"
He said, um, I said, "Buy me something."
You talking about, "Thanks for checking on me,
and what you doing?"
I said, "I'm about to work," he says, "Okay."
I said, "Okay." We're in a good spirit today.
- Ooh, hey. Look at you being cute.
Give me a hug.
- You got cheesecake. - Mm-hmm.
I brought, you know, olive branch.
So, how you think this is gonna be today?
- I have no idea what to expect.
- What do you think about the other ladies?
I haven't seen them since our gender reveal.
- So, I don't know. We'll see how it goes.
- Yeah, well, we'll see.
Even though things are weird after the gender reveal--
- It said, "I got a taste for some out of wedlock
baby shower food."
The post that you made today is shady.
- I thought it was funny, so, I mean...
- I don't think it was appropriate.
- This is time for them to get to know me
and see that I'm funny, I like to have a good time,
and they're gonna be like,
"Okay, that girl didn't mean no harm by that."
Wish me luck.
- Hey, girl. - How are you, mamacita?
- Hi, Mia, I didn't even see you, mamacita.
I'm so glad you could come. Come on.
- I have not seen Mia since the shit that she has pulled
at Angel's gender reveal.
She gives me weird bitch vibes,
and I'm just like, "Girl, I don't have time, bye."
- You guys, I want to thank you all for coming.
This podcast today touches home with me
because it's my ladies, it's my sisters,
and in some way, shape, or form,
we're all basketball wives,
we talking about our life, our experiences,
the good, if you want to share a little bit of bad,
you can, and just really opening up
so the world can get to know us.
Nobody has told our story the way that I'm hoping
that we can start telling our story today.
So, starting it off,
I'm gonna share a little bit about my story.
All of you guys know me already,
but I've been married for 26 years,
I've been with Doug for 30,
and our journey to getting married wasn't easy. Um...
Oh, hey 'Laysia. Hey, momma.
- Hey, my love. - Hi, baby.
- Oh, you look so pretty. - Come on, this your seat.
- Oh, alright.
- Showing up late, this is just typical, and it's just like,
Malaysia, get your [bleep] together.
- NARRATOR: Coming up on Basketball Wives...
- Being with a basketball player is not easy.
We really have been through a lot of stuff together.
It's kind of messed up.
- ♪
- JACKIE: Oh, hey, 'Laysia. - Hi.
Hey, my love. - Hi, baby.
- Ooh, you look so pretty. - Come on, this your seat.
- Oh, alright.
- Showing up late? This is just typical.
And it's just like, Malaysia, get your [bleep] together.
- JACKIE: Malaysia, I'm glad
that you're my first special guest, and I would love to know,
what was it like, like being married to Gennaro
and traveling and that kind of thing and him playing?
- MALAYSIA: Every day was an adventure.
I think we were on like six different teams.
- So his transition from playing basketball to after,
what was that like?
- He went right into coaching, so we went through
a very difficult period.
Now you're the coach, and you're not in the limelight.
You're in a transition period, where you're like,
"I don't know where the [bleep] I'm going,
and I got all these bills, and I have children."
And sometimes you take it out on the person that
you love the most, and I was his punching bag.
We had three beautiful children,
and I wouldn't change it for the world.
- This is amazing, and it shows a little bit
of vulnerability with Malaysia,
and I can appreciate that.
This sounds like someone that I really can get to know,
like she sounds real.
- Everybody's going through something,
so this is what it is.
- I've already heard this story,
but it just reminds me just back when we were friends,
and I miss that.
- So Brandi, I'm glad you're here to share your story,
and I would love to talk to you about Jason.
How you met him,
his time in the league, and then his transition out.
- We were together in high school,
and we've been together ever since then.
- JACKIE: Did you know what you was getting into?
- BRANDI: I've never been the person
that wanted to be a stay at home mom.
I've always been taught to hustle,
I've always been taught to work and do your own thing.
And so we had a deal
that when it got towards the end of his career,
that that was the time for me to transition
to do what I wanted to do.
- In the past, I've watched my friends
who have dated athletes or men who are successful
get left with nothing,
and I just want to make sure that I'm not
one of those women that falls victim to depending on a man.
- So, transitioning into retirement,
was that an easy thing for you guys or was it difficult?
- No, I mean, he went from being the man,
to really humbling himself and being just a normal person.
- Just being a normal guy? - Yeah.
- I'm definitely worried that if I retire,
I might look up and resent Iman for making me quit,
or feeling the pressure to quit.
But, if I could get a record and executive produce,
that'll just take me to a whole other level,
and I really want to be the first female DJ
that looks like me
to be able to accomplish something like that.
- Thank you, Nia, for joining us.
- Hi, everyone.
- JACKIE: Let's talk about your experience
with your significant other in the league.
- Well, I'm an ex.
He was super sweet, he was super kind,
and then he started feeling himself,
'cause I had put so much into him,
helping him with his page, his image,
making him work out, making him change up eating,
I'm like, investing so much,
where I stop investing into myself.
- Okay.
- NIA: So, I had to leave the situation.
I would tell him, like, "Be humble."
- I understand what these women are saying,
because it's a lifestyle change.
And so once you get used to something, you get used to it
so I get it, it's not an easy task.
- Would you ever date another player?
Oh, you kinda are, huh?
- I kind of dated athletes all my life.
I might need to stop doing that, because girl--
- JACKIE: I love you for sharing that with me.
Thank you, Nia.
Last, and let's bring you up, Brittish.
- You want me to talk about how I'm a basketball ho?
That's what you want me to say?
- No.
Everybody, we're welcoming Brittish to the show.
- I met Lorenzo when I was 21,
when I was a senior in college.
Lorenzo played international basketball,
so I've lived in Turkey, Russia, Israel, France,
damn, Germany, everywhere.
And I feel like I learned and grew with him.
We're not together today, because like,
I went through the hard transition of him
going through retirement,
I thought about stuff that he does every day.
I'm like, "Well, you work out everyday.
You love training people.
Train people. Become a trainer."
My issue is, with Lorenzo,
is that he wanted to fuck his clients,
so when that happens, then it...
it's the truth. - Brittish...
- You want me to tell the truth or you want me to lie?
- JACKIE: I want you to tell the truth.
- BRITTISH: I'd never take any of the things that we...
that was my best friend.
He really was there no matter what.
When my dad died, he was there.
Like, Lorenzo has...I'm about to cry thinking about it.
We really have been through a lot of stuff together.
- JACKIE: Brittish, oh my god.
- It's kind of messed up. - JACKIE: Oh my god,
don't mess up my make up, Brittish.
- I want people to understand
that being with a basketball player is not easy.
- JACKIE: No, it's not. It's not.
It's beautiful, but it's not easy.
- Sometimes it's beautiful, sometimes it's a nightmare.
I definitely appreciate the time that me and Lorenzo
had together.
It definitely taught me a lot of learning lessons
and made me who I am today.
And you know, it's hard to kind of come to terms
with the fact that we're not together anymore.
- Brittish, thank you. - Thank you, Jackie.
- For sharing your story!
- You got me all podcast crying.
- I have something to add to that. I really feel like,
I'm thankful for this space,
because we are the head of our households,
I don't care what anybody says. As women, we are.
We make sure the bills are paid,
even if you giving me the money. The house is clean.
- JACKIE: The booty is ready. - The booty is ready.
Okay, the food is on the table.
You know what I'm saying?
So, while you're going through your transition,
it's like, we do,
and we go through our transition silently,
and you can either grow with it or get rolled over.
You know what I'm saying?
- We gonna leave that right there,
because Brooke ain't playing.
I love it, sis. Thank you for sharing.
- I love you.
- JACKIE: This podcast went even better than I could
have ever imagined.
All of us coming together, sharing our experiences,
bonding, laughing, and really enjoying each other
and connecting, not only as women,
but basketball wives, and a family.
Every one of you, I appreciate you coming,
and I appreciate the guests for coming
and sharing in this moment with us.
- NARRATOR: Coming up on Basketball Wives...
- I mean, I understand you dating,
why does she feel comfortable to post a picture
of my daughter on her social media page?
- Well, like I said, she took it down--
- Lorenzo, the fact that you're almost 40 years old
and you don't think that it's inappropriate for somebody
to post somebody else's child is a problem!
- ♪
- ANGEL: Let's see you go.
- I'm gonna go here.
- AZARI: You'll never beat me.
- Oh, Amani.
- That's cheating. Nah, nah, put it down.
That's cheating, that's cheating.
- Alright! Connect Four!
I feel like I've done an amazing job raising my children,
and I think that it's still not enough sometimes.
I think kids always want more.
I understand, you know, he's a kid,
and if he wants more attention,
then it's something that I should work on.
So, now that we're having a new addition to the family,
how's that gonna be?
How do you guys see that happening?
How do you feel about being a big sister?
- Excited.
'Cause I don't know what it feels like.
- What about you?
- The baby's gonna move into the guest room,
and I'm gonna be in my room still.
- [Amani laughs] - Speaking of that, right?
So, Rocc and I were talking, and I've been thinking about it,
we had that conversation, and you're like,
"I was here first, and I love my room,"
and you know, you can keep your room.
- What if, like, when he gets older, and you need a bed?
- We'll adjust, we'll make adjustments.
- Thank you.
- Are you happy about that? - Yes.
- Can I get a hug? - Yeah, you can.
- You were not giving up that room at all.
I took Azari's feelings into consideration.
Our baby is definitely gonna be sleeping with us in my room,
that way Azari can still have his room,
and we can use the other room downstairs
for the baby's things.
And with the baby,
we're all gonna be one big happy family.
- AZARI: Sounds good. - Sound good?
You guys ready for some dinner and ice cream?
- Yes! - Yes!
- Alright, now help me up. - Give me food! Here.
- [Angel groans]
- Okay, thank you very much. I love you guys.
- Love you more.
- BRITTISH: Hey, Brandi, how are you?
- BRANDI: I'm good.
- What is this? - I'm making some chicken.
Chicken, mashed potatoes.
'Cause you're always asking for food.
Bring a little Southern hospitality
to the west coast.
- This is my type of hospitality, I get food.
- So Brittish, how was yesterday, then?
- I really was so proud of Jackie,
because I thought she was throwing us in a whirlwind,
but in reality,
it really was about basketball and our lives--
- Hold on, I'ma make this later.
Let me tell you something. Okay.
I really think this podcast really kind of helped us.
If your man played in the league, or played overseas,
we are all the same,
and we all deal with the same problems,
and I feel like that kind of brought us together.
- Everybody was vulnerable and sensitive,
and you know if I start crying, I'm like,
"Oh my god. What are you doing?"
- You're in love with Lorenzo and you don't know it.
- I'm not in love with him.
- You're in love with Lorenzo.
Every time you talk about him, you are smiling.
Every time you, like,
when you're thinking about the memories and everything,
yes, I know he did a lot to you, I do,
but you miss that man.
- I felt like when I left, I didn't leave to leave forever.
In my head,
I really was leaving for him to appreciate, to understand
that I will leave, you know what I'm saying?
I think me and Lorenzo when were together,
we were a very toxic but good relationship.
I don't know if that's even a thing,
but he gets me, I get him.
But I don't know if I should give him another chance,
especially since he's seeing some new random girl again.
I don't know, it's weird.
- For Jason, for me, I never left that man.
Everybody's like, "Oh, you need to leave him alone.
He's trash."
But they don't know the good in him, like,
Jason was there for me 100 percent
when I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
The way he supported me, the way that he was there for me,
it was on a whole other level.
Jason's like, "Okay, watch the game tonight."
So I turn on the TV, I'm watching the game,
and I'm like, "This dude done shaved his head. Oh my god."
- To do something like that is like,
I'll never forget that.
- How did you get over him cheating?
- It was very challenging, and it was very difficult,
but I looked at the bigger picture, you know?
I just really let go of a lot of negativity,
and then we focused and went to counseling,
and that was what, you know, what worked.
And, sometimes you gotta tune out people like your friends,
your mom, your cousins and stuff out of your ear about them.
- If I listened to them, we wouldn't have been together
for six months, so I don't pay them...
Everybody knows, you know how I am,
I'm very strong-willed, whatever I feel is how I feel.
- So, just think about it.
- NARRATOR: Coming up on Basketball Wives...
- What's going on?
- BRANDI: Something happened and I called my doctor
back in Detroit, and he was like,
"Brandi, you need to go to the hospital right now."
So, I'm freaking out.
- ♪
- BRITTISH: Hey baby!
You with your daddy? What y'all doing?
- We were taking pictures.
- You were? You look pretty.
- He handsome to you?
I'm sorry to hear that.
I miss you,
but tell your daddy to take you in your room,
let me talk to your dad for a second, okay?
- Take me to my room.
- LORENZO: What's up? What's the problem?
- First of all let's just do a little rewind.
I mean, I understand you dating and you know,
to my understanding, you just started dating this person
that you're dating this month.
So, my question to you is,
I've never met the girl before,
why does she feel comfortable to post a picture
of my daughter on her social media page?
- Okay, so...
Lorenzo has a new girlfriend all of a sudden,
and he has the nerve to let the girl post pictures
of my daughter on social media.
That [bleep] is not okay with me.
I've never met her in my life,
I don't even know who the girl is,
you don't even know how to spell her name properly.
How would you feel if I was dating somebody,
- Nobody can tell you what to do, but ain't nobody gonna do
what they want to do with my [bleep] child!
As long as you got whoever you want to be with,
she don't have to come over there.
You know that's where I'm at with it!
We ain't gotta argue about it!
No! Ain't no bitch about to post my daughter
on their social media, either.
I'm not going back and forth with you about that,
and you know that already. So just stop it.
- Lorenzo, the fact that you're almost 40 years old,
and you don't think that's inappropriate for somebody
to post somebody else's child is a problem!
- Well like I said, she erased it, she took it down.
- Lorenzo knows all of my trigger points
that gets me really upset.
Every time I think I have a little inkling that
I'm gonna go back with him, oh my god, he does some [bleep]
that just says huh, I know why I left,
and I'm never coming back. Like, seriously.
You are a [bleep] ass man and that's why I don't want
to have no conversation with you!
[bleep] off and [bleep] you!
[bleep] him, I'm so tired of that bullshit.
- ♪
- MARKUS: Okay guys, Brandi will be by,
we'll get her next.
Alright, thanks guys. Okay. - [phone rings]
- Hey, hey Brandi. - BRANDI: Hey, Markus.
- What's going on?
- BRANDI: Um, don't be mad at me.
- Why would I be mad at you?
- BRANDI: I gotta cancel the interview today.
- MARKUS: What's going on?
- MARKUS: Let me talk to her real quick.
Hold on one second.
What's going on?
- BRANDI: Um, so something happened,
and I called my doctor back in Detroit,
and he was like,
"Brandi, you need to go to the hospital right now
and get it checked out."
I have no idea what's going on,
but I'm just gonna rush to the hospital.
- MARKUS: I'm sorry to hear that.
Is it anything that we can help with?
- BRANDI: They're worried that it could be cancer.
And they want to make sure,
because of all the cancer stuff that I had
back in the day. - Yeah.
- BRANDI: So, I'm freaking out, honestly, 'cause...
Keep me in your prayers. - MARKUS: Of course.
- BRANDI: I don't know what's going on.
- NARRATOR: Next time on Basketball Wives...
- I want to cordially invite these beautiful baddies
in front of me to a weekend in Vegas
for my birthday this weekend!
- My husband and I are talking about
doing IVF again. - Oh no!
[unintelligible] gonna have a friend?
- Yes.
- Is Gennaro helping with the house?
- Girl, no.
I know you guys have been telling me that I need
to take him to court.
I am going to pray about it.
- How do you know God not saying,
"Walk your ass in that courthouse?"
- I just want you to know that Jackie was like,
"Rocc said that he was gonna make Iman leave her."
- Rocc and I both feel like we're being attacked.
- He was like, "We're having too many issues.
We might want to have a full hysterectomy."
- WOMAN: Aw yeah. I'm sorry.