New York's Basketball Moment, ’90s Knicks Stories, and the End of Locker Room Access? With Frank Isola

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Russillo shares his thoughts on Ja Morant and the Grizzlies after their win over the Wizards (2:00) before he talks to Frank Isola of ESPN and SiriusXM about the Knicks' success under coach Tom Thibodeau, covering then–Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy in the ’90s, today's NBA replay reviews, the Brooklyn Nets, sports beat writers and locker room access, and much more (7:45). Finally, Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (57:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	But that after the game, Ryan, Jeff was the interim coach after the game.
0:06.6	Phil Jackson started campaigning for the next job.
0:09.0	But I know, maybe I'd be interested.
0:10.3	Oh, it's something I'd be interested in.
0:11.9	The Nick's fluted Dallas.
0:13.4	They had practice in Dallas the next day.
0:15.8	And after we interviewed Jeff, he said, let me ask you guys a question.
0:20.0	What did you think of Phil Jackson talking about the Nick job?
0:22.7	And we were like, yeah, it was kind of strange.
0:24.6	And Jeff just unloaded on it.
0:27.0	Absolutely destroyed him.
0:28.5	And that was all the lingering emotion from all those bulls, Nick series.
0:33.2	When Phil Jackson used to kill the Nick's and Pat Riley about the way that they're playing.
0:36.7	They're playing like football players.
0:38.3	We had Jeff less than a week.
0:40.2	And he was going after the coach in the NBA.
0:43.4	We were like, this is going to be good.
0:45.7	Fun show for you today.
0:46.6	Frank Isollo, we're going to talk today's NBA, but we're also going to talk about whether or not reporters
0:50.9	ever get into the locker room and then some awesome band, Gundy, Tom, Thibodeau stuff from back
0:55.0	in his early next days and life advice coming up.
0:58.6	Watch a bunch of the games last night.
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