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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

NBA Offseason Story Lines to Watch Now, Warriors' Resurgence With Logan Murdock, and the NBA Rookie Scale With J. Kyle Mann

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares some story lines for the NBA offseason that you should be monitoring now (0:44). Then Ryen talks with The Ringer’s Logan Murdock about his new Ringer piece, "Curry, Calm, and Collected," Curry’s efforts to keep the Warriors’ franchise afloat while they got back on track, hoping for an electric playoff series between the Warriors and Suns, and more (15:48). Then Ryen is joined by The Ringer’s J. Kyle Mann to discuss his new piece, "The Rookie Scale: Early Concerns Over Cade Cunningham and Jalen Suggs Miss the Big Picture." They discuss Jonathan Kuminga, Herb Jones, Scottie Barnes, and more (40:22). Finally, Ryen, Kyle, and Ceruti discuss the unfolding of events known as the Frolic Room Super Bowl Heist before answering some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:08:59). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Logan Murdock and J. Kyle Mann Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We're talking hoops. We're talking a lot of it. I'm going to give you top storylines

0:15.8

of pay attention to the shape the off season in the NBA. We're going to talk about Murdoch

0:20.8

on steps run with this Warriors group and some of the lessons learned some awesome

0:25.3

kind of Durant story stuff in there too as well. J Kyle man, this guy crushed it. We're

0:31.1

taking a look at some rookie stuff. I test data conversation checks all the box. We have

0:37.6

a frolic room story that Kyle is going to take over before life advice, which we'll

0:42.0

finish up with two hours enjoy. I want to start with some NBA storylines. It's not

0:45.8

the top five, but they're important and these things and what could potentially happen.

0:50.5

There's a lot of unknowns. So none of this is definitive, but I think it's at least interesting

0:54.6

enough to say, well, what could possibly happen here? Let's start with LeBron. He's

0:58.5

a half a point away from leading the league and scoring. He's at 29.1 points per game. Incredible

1:03.3

night against Utah of the other night. That was that was unbelievable win. His 29th game

1:08.4

is the highest he's had in 13 seasons. He's fourth in P.E.R. and he's actually like first

1:12.3

in P.E.R. of any wing player. What he continues to do with 37 years old with this many minutes

1:17.4

is incredible. He's going to pass Karim for all time scoring. He's 1,828 points away

1:23.2

from that. I'd also like to remind people that are only not only younger than me, but

1:27.8

even my age to not dump on Karim. Karim, and I used to do it, by the way, but I also started

1:33.4

watching Karim when he was like 34. So then when I would talk with older people, I remember

1:37.1

even a conversation I was doing first take. We were talking about like top five players

1:40.0

or whatever. I didn't have Karim on the list. The producer looked at me like I was the biggest

1:44.3

asshole in the room. I was like, wait, I'm a dick. I kind of regret it. I do regret it.

1:52.0

Because I mean, this is somebody who came into league and he had an MVP in a title in

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