All the Bad Arguments Surrounding NCAA Athlete Compensation, Plus Duke Women's Basketball Head Coach Kara Lawson

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the “We Are United” letter from a group of PAC-12 football players and on the bad arguments on both sides of the player compensation issue (4:20), before talking with the new head coach of Duke women’s basketball, Kara Lawson. The two discuss her journey from playing for legendary coach Pat Summitt at Tennessee, to winning a WNBA title with the Monarchs, to her time with ESPN and her coaching roles with USA Basketball and the Boston Celtics. She talks about working under Brad Stevens, forming bonds with Celtics players like Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, and Marcus Smart, her recruiting pitch for Duke women’s basketball, and more (18:15). Finally Ryen answers a listener-submitted "Life Advice" question (54:58). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the Riders of the podcast on the Ringer podcast network is brought to
0:15.3	you by State Farm just like basketball.
0:17.8	The game of life is unpredictable.
0:19.4	Talk to a State Farm agent and get a teammate who can help you navigate the unexpected.
0:26.5	I'm going to tell you the spurs almost winning against Philadelphia was unexpected enough
0:31.5	for me to still have concerns about Philadelphia.
0:33.8	Those concerns are never going to go away really until they're I guess holding a trophy
0:37.3	up or I don't know or not holding a trophy up.
0:41.6	So yeah, hold it out against the spurs, shake Milton.
0:47.3	Recently benched in the Pacers game, redeeming himself up it there.
0:52.4	So that was unpredictable even in the win.
0:55.0	Did a teammate who can help you navigate the unexpected talk to a State Farm agent today
0:58.4	or maybe the spurs are just bubble ready, bubble tested, bubble ready.
1:01.8	I don't think enough people when they looked at the schedule really factored in what it's
1:07.3	like to never have to travel and how fresh the players should look, how rested they should
1:12.0	look.
1:13.0	If they've maintained some level of fitness throughout this, although there's nothing that
1:16.6	replaces the exertion of NBA basketball.
1:19.6	You're not going to just find that on some kind of a rowing machine.
1:24.0	Are you a big rower Kyle?
1:26.3	Where are we at with the rowing?
1:28.3	Yeah, you know, there was a time when I was like, dude, it's everything.
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