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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

NBA Draft Prospect RJ Hampton and Mike Miller Tell Stories About Getting Ready for the Draft. Plus, Ryen Gets Mad at Pickup Hoops.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Russillo rants about a recent encounter on an outdoor basketball court, before sharing his thoughts on the narrative that the Dolphins may look to move on from rookie QB Tua Tagovailoa depending on their 2021 draft position (2:30). Then, Ryen talks with top NBA draft prospect RJ Hampton and 2x NBA champion Mike Miller about RJ’s decision to forego the NCAA and play overseas in the NBL, working with Mike to get ready for the NBA draft, how the pandemic has affected traditional NBA scouting and predraft workouts, and more (17:00). Finally, Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (50:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm fired up. It's Friday and this little later than we normally get it out there, but we have a great guest set up for you. Mike Miller and lottery pick.

0:19.0

First round fixer, the RJ Hampton, who went to play, produced Zeeland instead of going to college. He was one of the top recruits at a high school and he's an interesting story and Mike's been training him and they've been together now for a while. So we're going to have them both on at the exact same time. I'm hot and fired up about.

0:33.0

Well, I'm not talking about my attractiveness because it's really probably more about my personality at this stage, but I'm upset about something but also really fired up about a different topic. And then we have a pretty heavy life advice. I almost thought of when calc up an email.

0:46.5

Just passing on the entire thing and let's just check in before we read the ads. Let's just check in with Kyle. I listen to other big podcasts and I don't love it when the huge name checks him with somebody who I don't know, but people are such Kyle fans that we like to know where your heads out on a Friday because you definitely seemed a little sleepy earlier today.

1:01.5

Oh, when you call me at 8 am. Well, I mean, who's not sleepy after the election? I don't know why I keep staying up waiting and looking, but other than that, I'm great. I'm doing well. It's a nice day in LA. Thanks for checking.

1:12.5

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1:56.5

Before I get to this two a topic that is out of control, I'm going to spend a couple minutes on it. I'm not going to go too long on it. I have to share something else with you. Now, just get done with the back workout.

2:08.5

So I'm a little juiced up right now, not quite sure what's going on. All natural, but just physically juiced up. And the biggest reason why was because I was listening to Buster Rhymes knew when they came out earlier this month.

2:18.5

And for those that don't know, Buster Rhymes, who no one's going to say he's a top five MC, but when he's good, he's really good. So extinction, a level event two is out.

2:30.5

And it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Like couldn't have been more fired up. There's a bunch of dudes on it.

2:37.5

Zarr is probably my favorite track right now. So I go really excited working out after that speaking of activities. There's an area where I can get shots up still. I'm not going to share with anybody because I don't want everybody going out there and having the rims taken off like every other court that you try to find.

2:53.5

You know, I still like to get shots up. And so your boy.

2:57.5

Biked over to this place and saw a bunch of dudes playing half court on their end. And I was like, all right, cool. I'm just going to play half court on my end. Just shoot around. Just get shots up, man. Beautiful day.

3:09.5

Whatever's going on in your earbuds at that moment. And I didn't want to play half court with COVID and everything. You know, maybe maybe for full court. I don't know if COVID's like, hey, full court's fine. Half court isn't, you know, again, I'm not pretending to know.

3:25.5

But I just wasn't down with playing any half court and no one was asking me either, which is fine too. And at this stage, white guy 40s.

3:34.5

Shaved head.

3:37.5

You know, you don't get picked a lot. So that's fine. That's fine too. It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter about your shoes or calves or anything kind of stuff. There are assumptions made about you and you're really to play.

3:45.5

Now these guys stunk a bunch of out of shape dudes. I mean, out of shape like in a way where it's like, oh, you're the out of shape guy that thinks it because you chuck it from 30 feet like you can ball a little bit.

3:54.5

Not the case. And they weren't very good. And as I looked, there was like litter everywhere. I went, all right, cool. Whatever. Not going to say anything.

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