Jimmy Butler Is That Dude. Plus, TNT’s Adam Lefkoe on the NBA Playoffs and His Best Shaq and Barkley Stories.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Ryen opens with Jimmy Butler’s all-time playoff performance against the Bucks in Game 4 and why there are few who change the ceiling of a franchise quite like him (0:46). Then, he chats with TNT and Bleacher Report host Adam Lefkoe about how he found out he would be hosting ‘Inside the NBA,’ his best Shaq and Barkley stories, why he doesn’t have confidence in his Sixers, and whether we’re being sold a bad bill of goods with this NFL draft (17:04). Next, the guys break down Episode 5 of ‘Succession’ (1:04:53), chat about Ryen seeing Phish, and close it out with some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:29:47). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Adam Lefkoe Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of the podcast, we will pay tribute to Jimmy Butler.
0:15.5	56 points.
0:16.5	Are you kidding me?
0:17.5	I'm going to talk about Jimmy Butler a lot and he deserves even more than I give him.
0:21.7	He talked about him so much, he really gets the liquor's Memphis on that much.
0:24.9	Okay, so we've got that part of it.
0:26.4	We'll talk about Jimmy Butler and NBA playoffs and Charles Barkley stories and Shaquille
0:30.4	O'Neal stories with Adam Lefko of TNT.
0:33.1	We'll recap succession.
0:35.2	We'll recap me going to fish for the first time in like 20 years, I think.
0:39.2	Oh, that's right.
0:40.2	There is one other mysterious show that I don't recap and life advice.
0:44.6	Enjoy.
0:45.6	I'm not even going to do tales of the couch out of respect to Jimmy Butler.
0:49.6	This should all be about Jimmy Butler.
0:50.6	It's going to be about 95 percent of Jimmy Butler not knocking the lakers in the back
0:54.0	because I have more to say on that series and we still have some work to do on that one.
0:56.6	But 56 points from Jimmy Butler.
0:59.2	Last night, he's winning.
1:00.2	They're now up 3-1 on the Milwaukee Bucks.
1:04.5	Jimmy Butler now is ranked number one on my, I have this ranking as well.
1:09.5	It's called that motherfucker ranking.
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