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In her 21-year professional career, WNBA basketball legend Sue Bird has won five Olympic gold medals and has become the most successful point guard to ever play the game. In the feature documentary Sue Bird: In the Clutch , Sue, alongside her fiancée U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe, confronts her next challenge: retiring from the only life she's ever known.
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00:00 [upbeat music]
00:02 Hey, this is Sue Bird, and you're watching Life Minute TV.
00:04 [upbeat music]
00:07 All in, it ended up being about a two year process.
00:12 You know, initially the thought was,
00:13 oh, let's cover what could be my final season.
00:16 Obviously that question of retirement,
00:17 and by the end of that first year,
00:19 I answered that question with, okay, I'm not ready yet.
00:21 So I came back for another season,
00:23 and that's why it ended up being that long.
00:25 Otherwise, it's a lot of verite,
00:26 a lot of behind closed doors,
00:27 trying to capture those quiet moments
00:29 that people don't get to see.
00:31 And then of course, it goes to the story of my career.
00:34 So we got a lot of nos to begin with,
00:36 and that surprised me, because when I read about Sue,
00:40 and I learned about her story,
00:42 and just how much she's achieved,
00:44 I thought this woman should be a household name.
00:46 Having to sort of prove ourselves is a theme
00:50 that's very familiar to Sue, sadly,
00:53 and to the women of the WNBA.
00:55 And in the end, I just embraced that and used that
00:57 as part of our story.
01:00 It's about Sue Bird, and it's a story about perseverance
01:02 and finding your own voice.
01:04 You watch both Sue grow into the woman that she's become,
01:07 and find her voice, and find her power,
01:09 and use her platform for good.
01:10 It runs parallel to the WNBA story
01:12 of being this baby league that was kind of overlooked,
01:15 and they found how to make the players
01:18 the most important part of the story of women's basketball.
01:21 And so, Sue gave us the opportunity
01:23 to kind of peek behind the curtain
01:24 on her life and her career.
01:26 (upbeat music)
01:28 (loud crash)
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