![]() A guy that I looked up to was Allen Iverson. ![]() SJ: The WNBA started in 1997, so that was pretty huge, watching the Houston Comets win back-to-back championships four times with Sheryl Swoopes and Cynthia Cooper. OMC: Who were your basketball idols growing up? And now I’m here, two years in as a Globetrotter. Then I played overseas in Italy and Poland, so basketball has taken me all around the world. I went through school with that – went to college at Texas State University – and played in the WNBA for a short time in 2008. I just realized it was something I loved to do. Sweet J: I started playing basketball when I was 10 years old, just in the neighborhood with the other kids. : When did you first get into basketball? I was, however, able to ask some one-on-one questions with Ekworomadu, about how she became a Globetrotter, how Allen Iverson impacted her easy basketball days and if she ever feels bad about routinely pummeling the Washington Generals pretty much every night (spoiler alert: nope!). Considering I hadn’t shot a basketball since probably middle school, I couldn’t turn down the opportunity fast enough. ![]() When I arrived at the BMO Harris Bradley Center to interview Harlem Globetrotter Joyce "Sweet J" Ekworomadu – the 12th female player in the 89-year history of arguably the world’s most famous basketball team – in advance of their traditional New Year’s Eve game at the BC, I was asked if I wanted to play a game of horse with Sweet J. ![]()
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