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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

1998 Redraftapalooza, Sleeping Dirk, Free-Falling Pierce, and the Craziest NBA Draft Ever With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Russillo is joined by Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan to revisit the 1998 NBA draft and some of the legends in that draft class, before redrafting the first 15 picks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up? I hope everybody's doing as well. As you can, thank you so much for listening.

0:14.8

Honestly, whenever you guys reach out and say, hey, the podcast, the Crotted Kid thing,

0:19.3

which a lot of people like, check that one out, the rewatchables, Bill and I break down

0:22.1

the Crotted Kid, the redrapping stuff that we're doing, which we're going to do today.

0:25.9

So the entire podcast today is Chris Ryan, Bill Simmons and myself, 1998 redrapped and

0:31.4

incredible draft. I'm not going to set it up too much because Bill kind of does that.

0:34.7

He's running this ship on these redraps. So thank you, thank you, thank you for checking

0:40.3

out the podcasts as much as you have been and letting us know that you enjoy them during

0:45.1

a certainly trying time. This Thursday, I don't know which famous guy we're going to roll

0:49.8

with first, maybe a big time showrunner. That's a term for a guy that runs a show. You create

0:58.2

the show, you sit in the room, you run the show. Although showrunner doesn't necessarily

1:01.4

always have to be the one that creates it. But you know what, I digress famous rappers,

1:05.8

maybe even a few jazz musicians. We get a lot of stuff going on, a lot of stuff. So we're

1:11.7

excited about that. One thing that I do want to talk about is I've mentioned with Bill

1:16.5

and I said this with Calhard when I wanted to show a Fox Sports this past week was that I,

1:23.5

I'm always kind of fascinated like what, what are the not always unintended consequences,

1:29.8

although I always love that one because it's just hard to figure out ahead of time. But

1:33.2

what will happen with payroll, what will happen with compensation, what will happen with

1:37.0

decisions that leads will have to make here. What are some of the things that we can't predict

1:40.4

right now? What are the conversations like this stuff? It's just really, really interesting.

1:44.1

It's always prefaced with yes, the most important thing is not sports. We get that. But one

1:49.4

thing that I did with Bill where hours after the season was suspended, and I probably

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