00:00What we're going to do here is we're going to throw some questions, but the challenge
00:03is you have to answer them while spinning the ball on your finger.
00:08With these nails, I can pop one off and we can try it.
00:12Hi Marie Claire, I'm Aja Wilson and we're on set for the sports issue.
00:17A superpower that can help me at work, I would have to say to teleport.
00:21Now you see me, now you don't give me teleportation, please.
00:27I really didn't have a first job, but I did have chores that I got paid to do, so technically
00:31that is a job.
00:32My job was to make sure that every bathroom in the house had toilet paper.
00:37And I really couldn't complain because a lot of people could be taken out of the trash
00:40and doing the dishes.
00:40I mean, chores was just the thing that my parents would kind of teach me that money doesn't
00:45grow on trees and you have to work for everything, and also because I was more on the sports side
00:49so I was very consumed with different sports, volleyball, soccer, tennis, basketball.
00:52So chores kind of gave me an opportunity to really understand the cost of a dollar and
00:57how important that is.
01:00I love going to amusement parks.
01:01We had an amusement park close to home, it was called Kerouins, and I would save my money
01:05to make sure that I could go to Kerouins and buy my own ticket.
01:08I didn't need my parents for nothing because I worked hard for those couple of dollars.
01:11So I always save, save, save.
01:13But once I had enough money for that ticket for Kerouins, that's what I was going for.
01:17I would have to say that one big thing that I bring to the table would have to be my
01:21leadership
01:21skills.
01:22I love communicating with people, I love forming bonds with different people to get the best
01:26out of them.
01:27A lot of fun, a little smoky vibe to it.
01:29Are you ballin' and ballin' on?
01:31I did think so, but I am.
01:35I would have to say a big weakness of mine, I am very emotional and sometimes that could
01:40be a weakness because I care so much and I may love so much and I want things to be
01:44perfect and that's not how life is.
01:48Ooh, someone I met in my industry that I really looked up to is the Kobe Bryant.
01:52He came to a game in Las Vegas and he came into our locker room, it was his AAU team,
01:57he
01:57had his daughter, his whole team there.
01:58And that moment there was just incredible because you're talking about someone that
02:03is the GOAT of basketball.
02:05Someone that you would hope that you could get a pinch of his mentality, his mindset in
02:09order to be great.
02:10And he was sitting there having a conversation with me, telling me that my jump shot looks
02:13good.
02:14Like that right there was all I needed to hear, like nothing else matters in the world.
02:18Kobe Bryant said I had a nice fadeaway jumper.
02:20Not a lot of people have that opportunity to say that they met their role model, let alone
02:24THE Kobe Bryant.
02:25That moment was huge.
02:27A moment in my career I would have to say I felt the most successful would have to be
02:31this past year, 2023, when we won our back-to-back championship in New York.
02:36Not a lot of people can say that they've gone back-to-back and it's hard, it is very, very
02:39hard to do that.
02:40I can't even put into words the happiness.
02:42I was today years old when I found out that there's a phrase called work-wife and I've
02:46been working with all of my wives I feel like, my teammates, my sister, the sisterhood
02:50that we've had, I feel like they're all my work-wives.
02:54Fashioned and spout off the court?
02:56I don't know if I have just like one particular person, but I do love like the late 90s, early
03:022000s, video vixen type of vibe.
03:04But also Savannah James is someone that's like iconic when I think about fashion and putting
03:09great things together.
03:10Oh goodness, what type of gossip happens in the locker room?
03:15I feel like there's a whole bunch of everything, who's talking to who, where they've been,
03:19who they saw, who they saw them with.
03:22Any given day, the group chat's always popping because we love spilling the tea.
03:26Majority, it's our own tea, that's the best part about it, it's tea that we can relate
03:30to.
03:30Ooh, if my career had a theme song, it would be On My Mama by Victoria Monet, period.
03:35Because my mom is just one of those badass women and I put that on her every single time.
03:40Like she raised me to be me and I love her for that.
03:44So every time I hear that song, I'm like, you are absolutely right.
03:46This is for My Mama because she blessed me.
03:50If I wasn't a WNBA player, I feel like I would be an actress.
03:54I've spent enough time in front of the camera, why not try to make some more money out of
03:57it?
03:58So I would be an actress.
03:59Let's get into this legging.
04:00My left leg really needs to warm up a lot sooner than my right.
04:05So I started wearing this tight and then it just started turning into a trend and I really
04:09love it.
04:09I feel like it's like a part of me.
04:11I used to cut this, but now it's me to be like this.
04:14So here you have it, the one Lexley.
04:18I would say when it comes to work advice, I turn to my coaches, particularly my college
04:22coach Dawn Salee.
04:23Talk about her drip goddess.
04:25She is that, but she's just someone that's going to always tell me the truth, no matter how
04:29much it hurts.
04:30And I love her for that.
04:31I really don't have any unusual skills.
04:33I mean, I feel like you get what you give.
04:35So I feel like my honesty is pretty unusual.
04:40Our time together is going away and Marie Claire, this has been magnificent.
04:45I loved everything about it.
04:47So I'm going to miss you guys.
04:48Bye.
04:51Bye.
04:51Bye.
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