PODCAST: Skylar Diggins-Smith talks next team, motherhood and more
The star dishes on how she’s planning her next move
Skylar Diggins-Smith wants you to know she loves Dallas. She’s just decided she doesn’t want to play for the Wings anymore.
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“If I could take the fans and all the teammates I’ve crossed paths with, I’d just take them everywhere I go,” Diggins-Smith told Howard Megdal in a just-released podcast. “It has nothing to do with that. I didn’t feel like I was very valued there as much as was being said to me. Without getting into too much detail, those actions weren’t really reciprocated to me as far as things that I was told and more importantly things that I wasn’t told. I just didn’t feel like I knew the direction of the organization, where it was trying to go, what it’s trying to do in comparison to what actions were actually happening.”
Diggins-Smith discusses motherhood, what she’s looking for in a new team — the organizations she’s considering and those who have reached out may surprise you — and much more in this in-depth conversation.
And how will she evaluate where’s the right place for her? Winning a championship, that’s first. And then?
“At this point in my life, with a son, where’s the best place for us to be for him too?”, Diggins-Smith said. ” All those things are going to factor. Am I going to achieve balance? I don’t know. But we’re prioritizing and trying to cross as much as we can off that list.”
Listen to the conversation here:
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