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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

NBA Draft Recap! Miller Over Scoot and Best/Worst Picks With Sam Vecenie, Plus Chris Paul to the Warriors

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the Trailblazers landing Scoot Henderson with the third overall pick, teams drafting for need, Chris Paul being traded to the Warriors, and ESPN's draft coverage (0:35). Then Ryen is joined by The Athletic's Sam Vecenie to discuss Brandon Miller being drafted second overall to the Hornets over Scoot, the Thompson twins going fourth and fifth overall, and Cam Whitmore's drastic slide to 20th, as well as their least favorite picks, first round sleepers, and more (18:01). Finally, Ryen recaps the NYC live show before answering some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:02:48). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Sam Vecenie 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 recap the draft of Sam Buscini. His thoughts at the top,

0:15.5

Cam Whitmore's Fall, what was Orlando doing? Some of our favorite picks. What's up

0:21.2

with this Pajemski guy? And then I'm gonna touch on some of the need stuff,

0:26.3

Portland not being able to pull off a deal which I kind of understand Chris

0:30.1

Paul Deloore's and coverage. Life advice follows. Before we have Sam Buscini on to

0:36.4

kind of go through a little bit more of the details of all the stuff last night,

0:39.6

I wanted to hit on a bunch of different points recapping the draft. So let's go.

0:43.0

The first thing that I think was important was what was Portland gonna do.

0:46.7

Once we saw that Miller was going to Charlotte at two and then Scoot is

0:50.4

available there at three. Again I would have taken Scoot two. We'll see how it plays

0:54.6

out. This is where the Lillard updates. I don't know that they're interesting

0:59.2

anymore. I'm officially tapped out on all of them. I think a lot of its strategy.

1:03.6

Hey plant this. Have this message get out there. See what the reaction to this

1:07.8

message will be and just all this kind of back and forth. And then I think it's

1:11.3

sucks for your fans when you're like, oh I would go here or I wouldn't go here on

1:16.1

an IG live and like, look you can think it's super casual and you're just hanging

1:19.5

out but you're the one deciding the broadcast it, right? So I'm not necessarily like

1:23.2

knocking them but you have to kind of understand how how emotionally invested

1:28.6

millions of fans are that are going to be like, all right, every day we

1:32.9

got to get updates on this stuff so they don't trade the number three pick for

1:36.0

a guy that can immediately make that impact. What you'd hope is if your

1:39.5

ownership, which is a little strange right now there anyway and a new front

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