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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Hypothetical NBA Finals Questions, Plus Steph Curry’s Extended Prime With Anthony Slater

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Russillo and Ceruti bounce some NBA Finals questions off of each other (0:26) before Ryen previews the Finals with The Athletic's Anthony Slater. They compare Steph Curry’s 2022 season to past campaigns and discuss helpful stats to understand the matchup between the Warriors and Celtics, Gary Payton II’s planned return to the Warriors, Finals picks, and more (30:51). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:02:48). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Anthony Slater 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 podcast, so really I go old school as can NBA finals question some hypothetical stuff

0:15.2

and stuff that doesn't make sense but it'll be fun. Anthony Slater on The Finals and

0:19.8

an extended run for the school and state team and life advice. Get ready, it's NBA

0:24.9

finals. Let's get ready for the NBA finals. We're going to do some old school radio stuff

0:29.0

here where a guy just asked the other guy questions. And so, Seroody's going to ask those

0:33.0

questions. We've put together a ton. He's terrific at this. So get started. Let's go.

0:37.5

All right. I think this is my first ever radio segment. By the way, it was like Seroody's

0:41.8

10 NBA questions. It was my first ever on air thing on SEP and Rostillo back in the

0:45.2

day. So it's starting to back to the good old days. Let's go. Yeah. Maybe even improved.

0:49.3

I hope so. I would hope so. All right. And that here we go. Number one. All right.

0:55.2

This team has a better chance to get back sooner. Okay. Let's just do a little PSA. Yes.

1:00.4

We realized the finals haven't started yet. We're already doing a recap of who we get

1:04.6

back. We understand. Hope sir. That is a great content. Right. I'd look. Hey, man. Welcome

1:08.7

to July radio. I love. I love this question because I think it's actually really hard.

1:13.9

Because you can do two different things here. I'll start with the one that maybe, I don't

1:18.5

know if it means less or more, but we can look at the conferences. Right. So it's not

1:21.6

just who the team is. You look at the rest of the conference because if you look at

1:24.8

the east, there's still a lot of competitive depth there. And it's not like Boston won

1:29.9

60 games, 60 plus games. And you go, well, this team's going to be in this two or three

1:34.7

year window, which they may be in year three of a longer window here by playing the

1:40.0

Easter conference finals a year ago than having all their disappointment and whatever. So

1:44.4

is Miami going to be better next year? I think that would be unlikely. But again, this

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