Eric Musselman

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy

4.9 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Basketball is more than just a love of the game for Eric Musselman... it's a deep family legacy and a driving force in everything he does - it's life. The USC men's basketball coach shares with Dan how his father, the legendary longtime basketball coach Bill Musselman, "was the most competitive person I've ever seen in my life" and how that led to Eric having no choice but to follow in his footsteps, becoming the first father-son duo to serve as head coach in the NBA. The Trojans' head coach talks about the hardest challenges and life lessons learned in his more than 30 years of coaching experience in the NBA and NCAA. Now, Eric continues honing his basketball heritage through his kids - connecting to his sons through their work together at USC and the lessons he's learned from being a parent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Welcome to a California-style South Beach sessions. We've been doing this out here because we can get closer to basketball royalty. I think of this name. I think Muslim. I think Van Gundy's. I think about people who were okay at basketball, but really good at teaching basketball. So he is now
0:44.2	the coach at USC. He's had 24 players that he's sent to the NBA, 11 of them, in the last
0:50.7	five years, six years. And also beyond, what is it, six tournament appearances,
0:57.4	two elite eight, and now you're the coach at USC. So thank you for joining us. It's been quite the
1:03.5	journey. Can you start right now and name all the teams you've coached, head coach and assistant.
1:10.0	Start at age 23 with the thrillers.
1:12.2	Let's see if you can do this. Wow. Can you go through all of them? Do you think you can do it
1:16.5	quickly? I don't know, Dan. First of all, thanks so much for having me on. I'm going to go as quick as I can.
1:21.9	It would be Rapid City Thrillers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Timberwolves back to Rapid City Thrillers, Rapid City Thrillers
1:29.3	to the Orlando, no, to the West Palm Beach, Florida Beach Dogs, Florida Sharks.
1:37.3	Florida Sharks, USBL was in between. Chuck Daly then hired me with the Orlando Magic.
1:45.2	Orlando Magic to the Atlanta Hawks.
1:49.1	Atlanta Hawks to the head coach of the Golden State Warriors, Golden State Warriors
1:53.6	to the media world where I did NBA Radio Game of the Week.
2:00.6	That doesn't count.
2:01.3	Let's go to Memphis.
2:02.3	We're going to Memphis next.
2:02.8	We're going to go to Memphis with Mike Furtello.
2:05.7	From Memphis to the head job of the Sacramento Kings, from Sacramento to three years of being a dad,
2:12.5	back to the G League in Reno with the Reno Big Horns to Arizona State as an assistant coach, to Louisiana
2:21.4	State as an assistant coach, to the head coach of the University of Nevada, to the head coach
2:26.3	of Arkansas to now being at USC. What I missed, Dan. You missed the Dominican team, the Venezuelan
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