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PODCAST: Talking USA Basketball U-23 with AP’s Doug Feinberg

By Howard Megdal

SEATTLE, WA - MARCH 03: UCLA Bruin Monique Billings goes up for a lay up during the women's Pac 12 college tournament game between the Arizona State Sun Devils and the UCLA Bruins on March 03, 2017, at the Key Arena in Seattle, WA. (Photo by Aric Becker/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
SEATTLE, WA - MARCH 03: UCLA Bruin Monique Billings goes up for a lay up during the women's Pac 12 college tournament game between the Arizona State Sun Devils and the UCLA Bruins on March 03, 2017, at the Key Arena in Seattle, WA. (Photo by Aric Becker/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /
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The talent-packed USA Basketball U-23 team was picked on Friday afternoon, following the gathering of nearly two score of the most talented young basketball players in the country’s pipeline.

Interestingly, only a handful of WNBA teams were on hand to watch, and a single member of the media: the omnipresent Doug Feinberg of the Associated Press, who got an inside look at the players who are about to dominate the 2017-18 NCAA season.

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Feinberg spoke to us about some of the players who impressed the most at camp, with Asia Durr of Louisville, UCLA’s dynamic duo of Monique Billings and Jordin Canada earning particular praise.

Feinberg talked about the 2018 WNBA prospects for all three, along with the larger ramifications of this gathering of elite talent for both USA Basketball and women’s basketball at large, which he is unsurprisingly writing about. Plus Feinberg mentions a motivational speaker at U-23 camp named Geno Auriemma, who apparently impressed and could well have a future in basketball.

Also discussed: the new and exciting world of WNBA video games, which Doug, that’s right, wrote a story about. Listen to Feinberg explain what it all means to Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi, and American treasure Kayla McBride, who Feinberg says kept him on the phone for 25 minutes talking up her video game prowess at length.

For anyone interested in who is the next big thing in women’s basketball, or just enjoys hearing what Doug Feinberg has to say—and who doesn’t?—this podcast is for you. Listen here:

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