Alana Beard
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"Alana Monique Beard" is an American professional women's basketball player with the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association/WNBA. She was the first Duke women's basketball player to have her jersey number (20) retired. She resides in the Washington, DC area, where she is founder and President of the Alana Beard Foundation. The foundation currently sponsors 7 AAU teams. Six teams are located in Maryland called Alana Beard's Future and one team in Shreveport, Louisiana called the Southern Mystics.

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That's my running mate right there, ... Temeka had a great rookie year, and she's only going to get better. We're all going to get better. I love this organization, and I think we have a bright future.

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The key to playing Detroit is being ready to play physical basketball. They are very physical, and they aren't going to give you anything easy. We have to be ready to match that.

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They were just one game out of first in the West and we knew they were going to come on strong in the second half.

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Getting Smith was a major move for Detroit. She's a great player. But we can't get caught up worrying about what other teams are doing. We have to win games. That's it.

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It would be very disappointing, very disappointing. But sometimes things don't work the way you want them to. Sometimes, you have to go through valleys to achieve good things. But right now, the season is far from being over. The only scenario I'm looking at is us needing to win these last three games. We can do it. I have no doubt in my mind that we can. We just have to put it together.

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Oh, it was nothing all that serious. It was just a case of two competitive people doing everything they could to help their team win.

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It's going to be tough. It will say a lot about where we are as a team. It will say a lot about where we end up this season. This is a big trip, no doubt.

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My intensity level and my mindset was at a different level tonight, ... That's where I've been trying to get to the entire season and I finally made it.

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