Durant, Nets Have No Better Options; Jon Anik on Maybe the Best UFC Win Ever; and We Introduce Worst Take

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Russillo opens with the Nets' announcement that they and Kevin Durant will stick together, why it’s probably because neither had any great options, and why he’s not all of sudden buying Brooklyn stock (0:31). Next, he chats with voice of the UFC Jon Anik about the wild card this past weekend and why Leon Edwards's win might be the greatest UFC win ever (14:18). Then, the guys introduce a new segment called Worst Take (43:13) before closing it out with some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (55:37). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Jon Anik 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 going to be a lot of fun.
0:11.7	John Annen, historic night for the USC Edwards over Usman.
0:15.6	I'm going to start with the latest news.
0:17.3	Kevin Durant apparently is now cool, the nets, and they're all going to run it back and
0:21.3	play basketball this season.
0:23.1	And a new thing that we have regarding the worst takes for college football, the NFL,
0:27.6	maybe even a little basketball and life, the most enjoyable.
0:31.2	Breaking news right before the show gets ready to tape today.
0:34.1	Apparently Kevin Durant has worked it out with the nets and he's going to come back,
0:37.1	he's going to play basketball.
0:38.1	All right, so what does this mean?
0:39.6	All right, a release statement from the nets and also General Manager Sean Marks.
0:45.5	It says Steve Nash and I, together with Joe Sy, Claire Wu-Sy, met with Kevin Durant
0:49.7	and Rich Clim in In Los Angeles yesterday.
0:51.7	We've agreed to move forward with our partnership.
0:53.9	We were focusing on basketball with one collective goal in mind, build a lasting franchise
0:57.4	to bring a championship to Brooklyn.
1:00.3	Funny enough in that statement, there's a net's logo and there's also a boardroom logo,
1:04.6	which is the Clim in Durant production.
1:09.2	I, that part, I'm like, wait, you can throw that logo into the statement as well.
1:14.9	I don't know, I mean, who gives a shit.
1:16.9	All right, top line, good news for the nets, right?
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