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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

NBA Mock Draft With Kevin O’Connor, the Truth About Jimmy Butler, Plus 'Free Solo' Climber Alex Honnold

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the spat between Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra and Jimmy Butler, and examines Butler’s NBA career and exits from his former teams (0:41). Then Ryen talks with The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor about his latest NBA mock draft and his 14 lottery projections (14:05). Next, Ryen is joined by mountain climber Alex Honnold to discuss the making of the documentary ‘Free Solo,’ in which he completed the first free-solo climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (49:50). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:17:05). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Kevin O’Connor and Alex Honnold 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, Jimmy Butler, what's the deal, man?

0:14.3

I'm going to give you the full timeline of Jimmy Butler's career, try to make sense

0:19.2

of his fourth stop.

0:21.5

Also Kevin O'Connor has mocked draft out.

0:23.8

It's up on the ringer.

0:24.8

We're going to go over all the lottery picks.

0:26.4

We're going to bring a special guest from the documentary Free Solo and some new work

0:30.4

that's out there, Mountain Climber, Alex Honnold, on that documentary that changes life,

0:35.8

the sport, and some other stuff as well.

0:38.1

So fired up about that and life fights.

0:41.2

Let's talk about your number one seed, Miami Heat.

0:43.3

Why not, right?

0:44.3

Because we saw the turmoil on the bench.

0:46.0

We'll run through this.

0:47.3

Originally, I was going to do kind of an East breakdown because it actually gets pretty

0:50.3

interesting when you start looking at some of the East records and how they do against the

0:53.4

West.

0:54.4

And though we feel like the East is better and it is better, there's stuff that I'll just

0:58.2

use next week.

0:59.2

I think I'll do it next week because as I was going through it, I was like, wait, do we

1:02.2

really know what's going to happen?

1:03.2

By the way, we don't.

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