What Basketball Star Did Aly Raisman Fangirl Over?

What Basketball Star Did Aly Raisman Fangirl Over?
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YH is at the Kids' Choice Sports Awards chatting with Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Aly Raisman, who offers some advice to other would-be sports stars and gives kudos to some of her fellow Olympians in attendance! Plus, she reveals the NBA star she fangirled over and how she hopes they will soon become BFFs!
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Winning gold medals, girls look up to you every single day. What advice do you wanna pass down to people who want to be in your shoes?
I would say the most important thing is to find something that you love to do because if you want to be good at something, you really have to love it and you have to be able to wake up in the morning and be excited about it. I think that if you love something and you're passionate about, then you're gonna end up being, you know, the best version of yourself at it.
Okay, now, of course, this is all about sports today. Besides gymnastics, of course, what teams are you choosing and players and why?
You know, I don't know. I think, I mean, I know Michael Phelps is here, I know Lindsey Vonn is here and I I love both of them. They're both amazing. Um, I always like coming to these shows because you can meet so many athletes. I think that doing sports is so incredible and I think that, um, you know, we're so lucky to have these events where it brings people together. Um we were at the SP's last night and it was really cool to meet the, you know, the best athletes and I have so much respect because I know all the hard work that goes into it, but I'm also excited to see, um, Russell host it because he's amazing, he's so nice and, um, I haven't met, um, Sierra yet, but I've heard wonderful things about her too.
I was gonna say, is there an athlete that you'd actually get starstruck meeting?
Oh, I met, I saw Steph Curry in the elevator the other day and I freaked, I played, I think I played it cool, but like, I freaked out.
Did you say anything or what happened?
Yeah, well, I walked in and and he was like, he was like, oh, what's up? Like he, he totally like, and someone was like, oh, she looks familiar and he's like, oh, yeah, that's Ali, the gymnast. Like he totally knew who I was, so that made me freak out because I didn't think he knew who I was because he's so busy.
He is busy. Okay, if you can rewind that experience, what would you say to Mr. Curry?
I actually talked to him again at the SP's yesterday. So yeah, we're like friends, we're BFFs now. We're good. I like gave him and his wife a hug. Like I was like, oh, good seeing you again. Like we're BFFs now. We're good.
So your story is like old school already. You guys are friends now.
Yeah, like we're BFFs. I mean, we don't, I don't like have his number or anything, but like I'll get to that later on when I see him again. If he's here tonight, I'll just be like, I'll like ask him to go for coffee and his wife. Like we'll all hang out. We'll be best friends.
Maybe they'll set you up on a date. What, what do you think?
I don't know, who do you wanna date?
I don't know. You know, Steph is such a nice guy that that would be a great idea because he's a really nice person. So whoever he would suggest or recommend, I'm sure it would be a nice guy. And then you guys can double date and then you can see him all the time. You guys can hang. You and his wife would be best friends.
He'll think I'm obsessed with him. He probably would more be like, you can hang out with my daughters because they wanna do gymnastics.
Tell me, who would you slime in your life and why?
Ooh. That's a hard one. Um, I guess I would slime my sister just like as a joke. But they would slime me back.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Aly Raisman
Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast, interviewee
- Michael Phelps
Fellow Olympian Raisman admires
- Lindsey Vonn
Fellow Olympian Raisman admires
- Russell Wilson
Host of the event, admired by Raisman
- Ciara
Russell Wilson's wife, Raisman heard wonderful things about her
- Steph Curry
NBA star Aly Raisman fangirled over and hopes to befriend
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