Jeff Van Gundy on CP3’s Injury, Favorite Teams to Watch, and Coaching in Today’s NBA, Plus LeBron’s Problems With the Lakers

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Russillo begins by discussing the Celtics' strong close to the first half of the season and what to expect from LeBron and the Lakers moving forward (0:30). Then Ryen talks with former coach and ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy about how the Suns can weather Chris Paul’s injury, player empowerment in today’s league, and the way officiating has changed over the years (16:00). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (51:00). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Jeff Van Gundy Producers: Steve Ceruti and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jeff Bann, Gundy fired up to talk with him about everything, fire empowerment, viewing
0:16.4	stories, the charge, Chris Paul injury.
0:20.2	I just love talking to that guy.
0:21.6	I'm going to do an open that goes forever on NBA stuff that I think is important for
0:24.8	the final stretch and life advice with a couple follow-up stories.
0:28.9	We are now officially post all-star break.
0:32.8	I want to run through a couple different storylines, some numbers, some stuff that's jumping
0:36.0	out here.
0:37.0	We got Vin Gunnies who mentioned a little bit later.
0:39.5	I know it's probably going to shock everybody.
0:40.8	I'm not going to do a stuff open today because this guy didn't watch any of the all-star
0:45.7	stuff this weekend, which is kind of crazy because my guy goes off last night.
0:49.7	Maybe we'll go ahead and watch that one back.
0:51.2	I'm just not a big fan of this stuff, but I don't like complaining about it either because
0:53.8	if you enjoyed it, you enjoyed it.
0:55.2	Good for you.
0:56.2	If your kids enjoyed it, good for you.
0:57.6	I think I say the same thing every year.
0:59.5	A lot of this stuff isn't for us.
1:02.0	If you didn't like it, don't get mad at the people that did.
1:04.4	I just, it's not my deal.
1:06.6	Let's get to it.
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