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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

NBA Regular-Season Observations, Plus Chris Ryan on the Sixers, Embiid, and the Super League

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Russillo opens with his NBA regular-season observations, including the evolution of the MVP race and more, before a “Worst Dude Ever” title contender edition (1:30). Next, he talks with The Ringer’s Chris Ryan about his confidence in the 76ers come playoff time, where Joel Embiid ranks in his list of favorite Sixers, and how he sees the rest of the playoffs playing out (16:30). Then, Russillo, Chris, and producer Steve Ceruti talk about the the idea of the Super League and how it could impact American sports (37:30). Finally, Ryen closes the show with some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:02:00). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Chris Ryan Producer: Kyle Crichton Producer: Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

That's as hard as it can get. That's as hard as it can get from like intense high pressure

0:09.1

situations like the Steph LeBron playing game will probably I would think outrate the

0:16.0

game's 7 of the NBA finals. Like that would be so intense to see that happen. Even if

0:21.5

the Lakers win by like 30 like it would just be just the anticipation of that moment.

0:25.7

I can't even believe it. And then you for them to march through that that gauntlet would

0:30.5

be unbelievable. I got it. I would seriously took my hat. That was Chris Ryan who stopped

0:37.0

five today. I've talked about just stuff with him, but specifically the Lakers run. We're

0:40.7

going to do that and some other stuff on the super league with Cerruri, like advice and

0:44.3

an NBA regular season review in the open. Chris Ryan Cerruri going to join us. I want to

0:50.0

talk six just with Chris Ryan. Also some other stuff he's going to pitch me some TV show

0:54.1

ideas. Some shows I haven't watched. And then I want to do some of this super league stuff.

0:58.8

And hey, if this kind of thing could ever kind of happen in any American sports. All right.

1:02.7

But before we do that, we're finishing up the NBA regular season. It's been a different

1:07.6

one. It's felt like two kind of in a row with a very short break as it kind of was, but

1:12.3

I want to go over a few things. Now the start date itself was one of the biggest unknowns.

1:17.8

Because for the longest time, it felt like the NBA was going to just try to push this

1:21.3

off as much as they possibly could. If you asked around, the owners were in favor of waiting

1:25.4

because the longer they waited, the better chances once they actually get started. They

1:28.5

could have fans in the seats inside the arenas. But as they started to look at it more

1:32.3

and more, they're going, Hey, you know what? We don't really have, we don't know. We

1:36.1

don't know that that's going to happen. So if we wait even longer to get this thing started

1:39.4

and we still can't have fans in here than it wasn't worth the weights, we might as well

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