Minnesota Lynx forward/guard and well-known video gamer Aerial Powers is featured on Episode 3 of GG Legends, an ESL FACEIT Group and Gucci docuseries collarboration. The episode follows Powers through her childhood playing against guys on the courts in Detroit to her time at Michigan State and beyond through interviews with her, her father and her Spartan coach Suzy Merchant.
Powers was very emotional about getting to be on GG Legends. In a recent call with Swish Appeal, she said she’s never had a family member be a pro athlete before her, so all the attention has been new to her throughout her career. For it to reach this point where a docuseries came to her hometown meant a lot.
The episode tells the story of when Powers first started playing on the courts against the guys. On her first trip to the park with her dad, there were tons of guys waiting to get on the court and she wasn’t able to speak up loud enough to get her turn. She returned the very next day, and, in the confident fashion of the Aerial Powers WNBA fans have come to know and love, yelled out “Who got next? … My next!”
Powers’ dad said that was the moment he knew he didn’t have to worry about her anymore.
Powers said she was very nervous in that moment when she yelled out, which is hard to…
