The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - GOOD FOLLOW - Paige Bueckers’ Opening Statement, Rickea Jackson Update, A’ja Wilson Hair Inspo & More!

Episode Date: April 30, 2026

Today on Good Follow, Juju Gotti and Trysta Krick get behind Paige Bueckers standing on business with the media’s obsession with her relationship with Azzi Fudd. Why did the Dallas Wings get involved? Next, they share an update on Rickea Jackson and the situation she is in with ex-boyfriend James Pearce Jr. What can fans do to support Rickea? Then, Good Follow makes their DraftKings Pick of the Week. Lastly, A’ja Wilson reveals the inspiration for her media look. Are the X-Men true Marvel Characters? What is A’ja’s new nickname? How is Chennedy Carter settling into the Aces’ training camp? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Back to Googadi, joined by my sister, as always. Trista Crick, how you doing, sis? I'm good, and just to fill everybody in, this show is presented by Draft Kings. Oh, thanks for the clutch feeling. See, that's why you need somebody to have your back like my sister. But straight into the lead, man, my sister, Paige, Big Page, finally stepped up to the plate, man. And before answering any media question,

Pace took a moment to address her personal relationship with B.A.Z. Quite frankly, I believe me and A.Z's personal relationship is no business is about our own. And what we choose to share is completely up to us. Me and AZ are not new to this? She said we're not new to this. We're true to this, Juju. We've been in a relationship for a while now. So this has not been an issue.

You haven't had anything to say. say you didn't even know what was going on until I graduated and got to the league. And everybody was still trying to figure it out when ASE was there getting barbecue with me when I went to the wings. Listen, the only reason you guys are talking about this right now is because I went on Wag Talk. And I answered some questions about ASE and now you guys have lost your damn minds. Listen, we've been playing together since Team USA under 16. And I'm pretty sure we've had a thing since then.

So don't you worry about it. If we break up, we'll make up, and we'll splash threes on you once again. Exactly. And I like to reiterate the smoke, I feel like from the media and social-wise, social media as well, wasn't never for A-Z and Page. It's for the organization thinking that they had to step in and protect them from something. We have to start treating the WMBA now more like a business than a movement. You feel me that we're protecting so much.

And we have to do, no, we, we, we're getting the bad now. Here you did. We raise them up right now. They've been professionals and been winning the championships for years now. Trust that they know how to do this. And so we don't necessarily overextend ourselves in times. We don't even need to, man. Whole being of your mess for nothing last week when sis had it the whole time.

And I think, too, Juju, the thing that was hard, I think, for ASE was everything was on her because it was her press conference as the number one. overall pick and it was like Paige was going to handle this from jump anyway like Paige is the alpha in this dynamic she's been the one that has you know sort of taken the mantle and spoken out about ASE and Paige so I think this is one of those situations where like they put ASE in an uncomfortable spot and just like Paige normally does she cleaned it right up like Mr. Clean moving on to a little bit most serious note though bro. The Rakea Jackson situation.

Did you see it? Have you saw what was going on? Yeah, I mean, it's a sad situation. Like, obviously, during Unrivaled Juju, you know, Rakea had taken some time away from her time at Unrivaled. There was a situation with her and her ex-boyfriend who plays to the Falcons, James Pierce Jr. And I remember, you know, I thought that was pretty much a rap for him.

You know, the evidence on the ground seems. like it was pretty cut and dry in terms of just just the like everything that was public like the chase the headed to the police station the t-boning running from the cops i don't even mean the stuff that it was the domestic violence that he's been accused of just the stuff we do know it was enough for me to be like all right it's a rap for him and and now like you and i talked about this saw it and if you want to just give the sort of the allegations of what went on so that we can just set it up for the people who don't know pierce was arrested in miami day county on february the 7th for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon fleeing and eluding police

resisting an officer with violence as well as a misdemeanor charge of stalking man like need i go on i will go on he colloquy he colloquy into Rakea's car several times while she attempted to reach the police station. Like she got a protective order, but I can keep reading and keep reading. The story just goes on and gets more worse and worse. I'm just, look, the justice system, we already know how it's been for the past umpteen years. And we know how the leadership is in our country right now. So we don't really have a lot of faith in them folks anyways.

But I think that this is what we're going to. one of them situations where all the fans of him, the little kids that now see this and think, oh, I can go through this. Oh, this is the only thing I got to, I can just quote unquote pay my way out of these situations. Yeah, because apparently if he completes some sort of program, he's going to be dismissed of all charges. That to me is whack as hell, like super whack.

Yeah, man. And I ain't, look, I come from street culture. You did? So it's, um, my cold in, in my chest. to always not speak on these things. This ain't my business. This ain't got nothing to do with me, snitches, get stitches. But at the same time, I think that we've moved on to a point of society where we got to

start having our sisters backs in a lot of these situations. I know the street code say this, but Rakea is our sister. We got to protect them. We got to protect ourselves. And we got to show up for jury duties. So they don't outnumber us in them courtrooms. And so now we're complaining about, oh, the jury went this way. They don't represent us just because you skip jury duty, bro.

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Ryan, but Big Al, keep your eye on Big Al. She got that look in her eyes, man. So, stay tuned to my sister. Lock in the Atlanta Dream. Buy a thousand points, please. This segment is presented by Draft Kings. Draft Kings, the crown is yours. We've all been

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debuted a new hairstyle? Everybody was taking bets? Is it going to be silver? Is it going to be gold? Is it going to be platinum? And her inspiration, her Instagram, Expo was Jean Grey from the X-Men. And so for reference, this is the thing I don't like how you say X-Men.

I don't like you say X-Men, bro. The X-Men. X-Men. So she was, you know, the thing that I have a problem with is that they consider X-Men to be Marvel. Okay. Here we go. My bad. Bam.

Everybody put your seatbelt on. Gene-Gret. Like, I think X-Men is its own thing. Like it's not the like the Avengers are here and X-Men is here. Okay. So it's just not a, it's just not a Marvel thing. It's an X-Men thing. You know what I mean?

Bray, sometimes I hear you say stuff on the show and I be like, ooh-wee, those folks ain't going to like that one. Because you know, the Marvel, the Marvel DC folks, they do not play about this stuff, bro. I'm pretty sure we casuals, but I'm also. So pretty sure you just started a war, maybe a civil war, salute to what's his name, Captain Planet? You mean the real Marvel? It's, oh.

You mean Captain America and Iron Man and Spider-Man and the people who are actually in the Marvel universe? Have you seen any of the Marvel universe interact with X-Men in a movie? No. I mean, I've seen Deadpool interact with my boy. Does that count? No. Anyway, congratulations to Asia. I think it's amazing that she comes out and does this every year,

and we wonder what she's going to put on. Oh, my goodness. She basically had the Halle Berry Silver Storm X-Men last year as well. Again, not a Marvel character. Someone needs to put up her on game. She'll probably win another MVP, though, looking like Gene Gray. Gene Gray was a baddie. Jean Grey was very powerful,

and one of the most powerful characters in the X-Men. Universe. The X-Men. X-Men. X-Men. But while Aja was talking the other day, it made me think, hold on now, I think my sister need a new nickname, bro. Like, because what's Aja's nicknames right now?

Is it just Asia? That's what I thought. The apostrophe. I think moving forward, bro, with her accolades, four times this, only eight years in, NVP that, man. I think we should start calling her Queen Wilson, man. We call him King James. We need to start calling her Queen Wilson when we talk about sis expeditiously.

She's just headed for every award under the sun and the aces are now a real problem now that they've added Kennedy Carter. They asked her about adding Kennedy Carter to the training camp and she had this to say. It's been a joy to have her in the locker room and we're going to continue to push and help her grow and she's going to help us grow. but I was an opponent against her when she fried us. And so it's pretty cool to have her in the locker room now. So she won't be frying us. She's actually going to be frying other people with our jersey on, which I'm very appreciative of.

That to me, Juju means she's going to be on the team unless she does something crashy, outy. Brough, that's high praise from the goat, man. Like, dawd. And she's right, bro, because I don't see her kill and fry everything. And now she gets to do that alongside Queen. Listen, oh, nah. Salute.

And I got a little bit more faith in Kennedy than I had when I first heard this news, too, because she's been a class at so far. I don't see it going too crazy, but don't mark my words on that. All you have to do is just hoop, Kennedy. That's all you need to do. And Asia and the point God and Joel and Jackie, they'll take care of the rest. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

You got to know. And that's going to do it for this week's episode of Gupfollow, man. Thank everybody for tuning in. Make sure you subscribe to Goodfollow's YouTube page and all of its socials now at Goodfellow Show. You dig. You dig. And you can catch Goodfow.

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