What Does it Really Mean to Be a Champion? Renee Montgomery: Making History + Living the (Atlanta) Dream + Changing the WNBA

Feb 3, 2022

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Former WNBA player and current WNBA team owner of The Dream, Renee Montgomery:

Making history as a ‘first’
How basketball changed the trajectory of her life.
Why she left the WNBA in 2020
What Kobe Bryant meant to the WNBA
Why she thinks there is still such a discrepancy between equal pay in the WNBA & NBA and what needs to be done to close the gap.
What people are missing by not watching the WNBA
What it was like to become one of the youngest owners of a sports team
Why it’s important to her to be ‘the YES’ for others
Working with family
How sports prepared her for business in more ways than she could have imagined