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ESPN’s Chiney Ogwumike Holds Court Amid a Hectic Hoops Summer
The ESPN on-air analyst for both men and women's pro and collegiate hoops discusses basketball, as well as her new Disney+ show 'Vibe Check.'
That’s why the athlete-turned- ESPN on-air analyst for both men’s and women’s pro and collegiate hoops is busier than ever this summer, from the recent debut of a new Disney+ talker about sports from a female perspective that she co-hosts, “Vibe Check,” to working as a producer on a scripted series based on her own life for Peacock. But on the latest episode of the Variety podcast “ Strictly Business,” she says none of it would be possible without the emergence of women’s basketball as a full-fledged media phenomenon — a development she herself admits took her by surprise. Ogwumike also credits the surge in the WNBA’s popularity with paving the way for “The W,” a comedy series set in a fictional version of the women’s hoops world based on her own misadventures with her real-life business partner, Allison Galer.
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