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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

A Love Letter to Chris Paul, Plus Chad Ford on His Latest NBA Mock Draft

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the Suns winning the West and Chris Paul reaching his first NBA Finals, including why CP3 is everything you’d want in a basketball player. Then, he chats with NBA draft expert Chad Ford about his latest mock draft, some questions he has about presumptive no. 1 pick Cade Cunningham, and why evaluators miss on prospects like Darko Milicic. Finally, he closes it out with some listener-submitted Life Advice questions, including a follow-up on the guy who’s constantly late. Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Chad Ford Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And I think the other thing is, whenever you get that presumptive number one, everybody

0:07.6

wants to sell it on the strings and doesn't want to talk about the weaknesses.

0:11.4

And there are a few things that are troubling about Kate Cunningham.

0:16.0

Now troubling in that he'll bust out of the league, I think that's highly unlikely.

0:19.9

I think this guy has got about the highest floor of anybody I've seen coming in the draft

0:24.9

in a long time.

0:25.9

It's almost unfathomable to me to say that he isn't a productive NBA player.

0:31.4

That is Chad Ford talking about number one pick, Kate Cunningham on the floor burst ceiling.

0:37.1

We're going to talk Fris Paul and the Western Conference finals a lot on that and some life

0:42.1

of voice including full 180's.

0:45.0

Yes I am in a good mood, yes I am happy for Fris Paul going to his first ever NBA finals.

0:49.2

We're going to give him some love here to start the podcast today.

0:52.4

Today's open starts with the other side and that's Paul George.

0:57.4

Paul George and the Clippers because I want to spend a few minutes on them before I get

0:59.7

to Fris Paul.

1:01.0

Now long time listeners of this podcast know how much I love Fris Paul but also I have

1:05.4

known that I've pointed out Paul George coming up short in big spots because it's happened

1:09.9

and it's happened probably more than it should for a guy that's named himself playoff

1:13.4

people.

1:14.4

What I'm not going to do is criticize him now because now's not the time.

1:17.0

Whatever you thought of Paul George you should feel better about him now.

1:19.5

If you had steak or I would say hold stock and Paul George sucks takes you didn't make

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