\u201cI was freaking out before the Zoom even happened,\u201d says Amoore, who connected with Westbrook and the Honor the Gift team late last year. \u201cI\u2019m not really one to get shy, but I did. Sitting there and having him in front of me, I was like, this is actually unreal right now.\u201d The Ballarat, Australia, native\u2014who played at Virginia Tech before transferring to the University of Kentucky for her final year of eligibility\u2014grew up admiring Westbrook\u2019s game from afar when he played for the Oklahoma City Thunder. \u201cIn Australia I didn\u2019t really have too many ESPNs, so whenever [Thunder] games were on, they were the marquee games and he was the marquee player,\u201d she says. \u201cFeeling so far away and now having the chance to work with him is unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n
When it came to dreaming up her draft look, Amoore left most of the design process up to Westbrook. \u201cI pretty much said I wanted a cropped blazer and a skirt, and from then on, I didn\u2019t know what to expect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Westbrook and Honor the Gift landed on a black leather blazer with white-stich floral embroidery\u2014cropped to Amoore\u2019s liking\u2014paired with a matching mini skirt. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to go too crazy, but also wanted to give her a little bit of swagger for one of the biggest moments and nights of her life,\u201d Westbrook says.<\/p>\n
Amoore will wear the skirt suit with a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase \u201cHonor Women,\u201d a piece available to shop from the LA-based brand. \u201cWhile Georgia\u2019s draft outfit is this aspirational, one-of-a-kind look, the T-shirts are the attainable element of our collaboration,\u201d Westbrook explains. \u201cThey\u2019re how fans can connect with this moment and carry this message forward.\u201d And what is that message? \u201cIt\u2019s a statement about how I was raised and how I live my life,\u201d Westbrook says. \u201cMy mom taught me about strength and sacrifice. My wife shows me what true partnership looks like. And now having daughters, I\u2019m even more committed to creating a world that honors and respects women.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI was freaking out before the Zoom even happened,\u201d says Amoore, who connected with Westbrook and the Honor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-267558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}