Conference Championships: Eye Test, Stats, and Trends. Plus, Why It’s So Hard to Make NBA Trades, Deadline Teams, and Two Favorites in the West With John Hollinger.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Russillo previews the NFL Conference Championships with stats, historical evidence, and betting trends before making his picks (0:44). Then Ryen is joined by The Athletic’s John Hollinger to discuss why NBA trades take so long to manifest, the toughest trades John had to make during his time with the Grizzlies, whether the Hawks would ever trade Trae Young in season, two co-favorites in the West, whether the Warriors should trade one of their young lottery players, and more (15:24). Finally Ryen and Kyle give out their favorite NFL bets for Round 3 (43:59) and answer some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (45:23). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: John Hollinger Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on the Ryan Russo podcast, we go through all the numbers, betting trends and the picks
0:15.7	for your conference championship games.
0:17.8	A lot of stuff in there, not your hot relevant.
0:19.8	Any of it will be John Hollinger on the NBA trade deadline.
0:23.0	Would you ever move trade in season?
0:25.4	We'll golden state pivot on some of the young guys and try to add a bunch of other teams
0:28.8	we get to as well.
0:30.4	And we have our picks contest.
0:31.8	It continues.
0:32.8	It's getting contested.
0:33.8	A lot of a lot of heat between the guys on the show on this one.
0:39.0	So I don't know if it's going to ruin the friendship vibes and life advice.
0:42.0	Enjoy the weekend.
0:44.2	Let's preview the conference championship games, the NFL this weekend.
0:47.3	I'm going to start with kind of the headlines, jumping into some of the numbers and take a
0:50.1	look at some of the betting trends.
0:51.3	Then we'll give you the picks and picks against the spread.
0:53.1	All right.
0:54.1	So here we go.
0:55.1	These four teams aren't a heater.
0:56.0	This is unbelievable stretch for these four teams and it's kind of cool too.
0:59.1	I mean, it's always kind of nice.
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