It’s OK to Love College Basketball and the NBA, Wilt vs. Russell Stories, and What’s Next for LeBron With Jackie MacMullan. Plus, Author Michael Lewis.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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Sports

4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the beauty of the NCAA tournament and the national champion Kansas Jayhawks (0:29) before talking with Jackie MacMullan about her new narrative podcast, ‘Icons Club,’ the friendship and rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, the 2022 Celtics’ turnaround, LeBron James’s future after a crushing Lakers season, and more (12:13). Then Ryen talks with author and journalist Michael Lewis about some of his books, including ‘The Premonition,’ ‘The Fifth Risk,’ ‘Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House,’ ‘Moneyball: The Art of Winning,’ and more (43:34). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:17:12). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Jackie MacMullan and Michael Lewis 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 we have author Michael Lewis, who podcasts, looked to came out.
0:16.0	I want to get to a bunch of different stuff.
0:17.3	It's Michael Lewis.
0:18.3	So we're fired up.
0:19.3	Jack McMullan on the Icon Club podcast series.
0:21.8	We'll talk a little current events as well in the NBA life device and an open on loving
0:26.8	college basketball again.
0:29.1	An unbelievable tournament, unbelievable title game and congrats to the Kansas J-Hawks.
0:32.9	I feel like I've always had a little bit of a soft spot for the J-Hawks going back to
0:36.4	that manning team that wasn't great around them.
0:39.4	I think they were big concern too, was that they weren't going to make enough free throws
0:43.0	in and manning just carried them to a great title.
0:45.0	And that was also because in 86 it felt like they had a really good team, Archie Marshall,
0:49.2	Torop is knee.
0:50.2	This is going deep.
0:51.5	This is kind of the beginning of my first not liking Duke experience.
0:54.8	It went on pretty strong there for a long time and then being around ESPN.
0:58.1	It kind of dissipated a little bit.
1:00.4	But anyway, one of those games you're going to like, I love this tournament and I love
1:05.3	college basketball, even though I don't talk about college basketball a lot.
1:07.9	I'm going to get to that at the very end of this.
1:09.7	But at half, it's a little game stuff, your little game recap.
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