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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Harden for Simmons Shows Daryl Morey Was Right, More Trade Deadline Talk With Chris Mannix, Plus Super Bowl Stories With Damien Woody

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the trade that brought James Harden to the 76ers and Ben Simmons to the Nets (0:26),before talking with Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix about the Mavericks trading Kristaps Porzingis to the Wizards, the Celtics trading for Derrick White, the Trail Blazers trading CJ McCollum, and more (10:47). Then Ryen is joined by two-time Super Bowl champion Damien Woody to discuss the Bengals-Rams matchup in Super Bowl 56 and stories from Damien’s two Super Bowl appearances (37:55). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:02:40) Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Chris Mannix and Damien Woody Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

NBA trade deadline recap and Super Bowl breakdown.

0:15.6

We have Chris Manix and all the latest news, Damien Woody on Super Bowl Stories and his

0:19.0

pick and I run through what feels like the final chapter of this Simmons Harden saga.

0:24.7

And life advice.

0:26.2

The headliner, the one we've all been waiting for now for, I don't know, it's all

0:29.7

ramped up here quite a bit the last week.

0:32.2

Ben Simmons goes to the nets, Philly sends him out with Seth Curry, Andre Drummond, a

0:37.5

22nd first that also can be deferred to 23 and then a 27 first is top eight protected.

0:43.2

The 76ers finally get their manager James Harden a year plus after they thought they were

0:46.7

getting him from Houston and they get Paul Millsap.

0:49.7

So on the surface you go, hey, the nets won the trade, all right, they get the picks, they

0:56.2

get Curry, sure they needed size.

0:59.8

I know Drummond gets a ton of rebounds, man, but I've just watched it enough to go, he's

1:03.4

almost like that score on a bad team that gets 20 something.

1:05.9

You're like, hey, is he good?

1:06.9

And you're like, I know, look, rebounds are harder than scoring and he's massive, but I was

1:11.5

watching him really closely the last couple of weeks and I just, whatever.

1:14.4

So then now they have him, right?

1:15.8

But now they've both been able to kind of reset what has been a problematic situation for

1:19.1

both.

1:20.1

We're going to get to all that stuff.

1:21.1

If you look at Katie, Kyrie and Harden, this grand experiment, you got 16 games total,

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