A Lesson on NBA Trade Demands, an NFL Betting Primer With Chad Millman, Plus SlamBall Creator Mason Gordon

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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Sports

4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the NBA trade requests of James Harden and Damian Lillard, as well as their respective teams' responses (0:44). Then Ryen is joined by Chad Millman, chief content officer of Action Network, to discuss sports gambling's entrance into mainstream media, finding value in futures bets, predicting the NFC, the state of magazines, ESPN layoffs, and more (14:22). Then Ryen talks with SlamBall cofounder Mason Gordon about the inception of SlamBall in the early 2000s, developing it on the fly, having it televised on SpikeTV, the league's return this year after a long hiatus, and more (56:33). Finally, Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:15:52). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Chad Millman and Mason Gordon Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's podcast we're going to talk with Chad Millman about trying to figure out, betting
0:17.8	on some of these NFL futures, also his story worked together.
0:21.0	Randy has been in the magazine, he has been.com some fun stuff there.
0:24.1	Slam ball.
0:25.1	Do you remember it?
0:26.1	You do, if you're my age, it's back.
0:27.1	It's back Friday.
0:28.1	Gordon is the founder, creator, and a former player.
0:31.8	So we'll chat with him about Slam Ball coming back, life advice, and an open about maybe
0:37.5	reminding ourselves that every NBA decision doesn't have to be made as soon as we've learned
0:41.8	about the story.
0:44.1	I didn't think I had another open in me about James Harden and Damien Lillard, but I do.
0:48.3	I have him.
0:49.3	So I'm going to share it with you now.
0:50.3	General Mori has some quotes that we'll get to here from Tuesday and Philadelphia Radio
0:54.5	interview, which I think plays into kind of this whole thing.
0:57.1	So look, when I do this podcast, when I do the monologues specifically, and I have an
1:02.3	opinion, I usually have pretty strong conviction with that opinion.
1:05.1	It's based on putting together some thoughts, looking up some stuff, and then I share it
1:09.7	with you.
1:10.7	And that's kind of the formula.
1:12.2	But I think there are different times in sports where I'll wonder, like, wait, should
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