Ep. 1004 - Piper on Illini going back-to-back in NBA Draft
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner discuss Kasparas Jakucionis and Will Riley going back-to-back in the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft. Piper discusses his experience in Brooklyn, what he thinks of the fit for Jakucionis in Miami and Riley in Washington, what this means for Illini basketball and who could be the next Illini draft picks.
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| 0:45.1 | Music Welcome in to the Lionanquire podcast. |
| 0:53.7 | It is Jeremy Warner, and let's welcome in Derek Piper, fresh off his trip to Brooklyn, kind of a whirlwind, about 24, 30 hours in New York. |
| 1:00.3 | But it's a pretty cool moment for the Illinois basketball program as Casper Seacosiaq has shown us and Will Riley go back to back. |
| 1:04.8 | Pick 20 for Casperus, a little bit longer of a weight than we have thought it would be. |
| 1:08.2 | We'll get into that conversation, but Will Riley goes right after him. |
| 1:12.1 | Derek, you were in the building at Barclays Center. What was it like just being an NBA draft? We were just talking before this. We didn't, we don't even know how to cover an |
| 1:16.2 | NBA draft because we've never been to them before. Yeah, we're fortunate enough. We've done this |
| 1:20.7 | long enough. We've gotten to go to so many different cool places and almost had a lot of success. |
| 1:25.2 | There aren't, there aren't many firsts, as I told somebody, you know, |
| 1:28.8 | kind of left in the college basketball world in terms of what we expect to do. |
| 1:34.2 | This was one of them. |
| 1:35.4 | This was one of them for me and for Illinois in a long time. |
| 1:39.0 | So, yeah, getting over there was really cool just to see. |
| 1:43.8 | Look, it's a made really cool just to see. |
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