Paolo Goes No. 1! Behind the Surprise Decision With Magic President Jeff Weltman, Plus More NBA Draft Observations

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Russillo shares some observations from the 2022 NBA draft, including Chet Holmgren to the Thunder, the Knicks’ draft decisions, the Grizzlies trading up, and more (0:28). Then Ryen talks with Orlando Magic president of basketball ops Jeff Weltman about when and how the Magic decided to draft Paolo Banchero no. 1, how Paolo fits in with the young roster, a Jonathan Isaac update, Mo Bamba, the multiple ways cap space factors into free agency, and more (18:14). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (42:36). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Jeff Weltman Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The day after, I'm going to run through just draft observations because we had four hours
0:15.2	of those on draft night.
0:16.4	Jeff Welton, president of basketball ops for their Orlando magic, when did they know
0:20.9	they were taking power and when did they tell them?
0:22.8	Are they worried about not having to work out and a really good life advice to close
0:26.3	from the boys?
0:28.1	Good morning.
0:29.1	I hope everybody enjoyed the NBA draft, only the single greatest day of the year.
0:33.3	I did maybe four hours on it last night with Bill and Koc who's terrific.
0:38.6	We had a little Chris Ryan.
0:39.6	We had a nice, I wouldn't call it a sprinkle of sorouti.
0:42.1	I call it just a good helping of sorouti.
0:44.4	We're going to hear from Steve sorouti a little bit later on, magic fan.
0:49.3	I just want to run through a few things.
0:51.1	I'm not sure that I want to do the full the grade steal because I feel like we just did
0:55.6	it on the fly throughout the entire time.
0:57.0	I'll admit to it's always the annual reminder that I like to give people after the draft.
1:01.5	As much as I love it and I would admit, I also feel like as I get a little bit older,
1:10.2	I'm not in a hurry.
1:11.2	Just got sucks.
1:13.9	But I'm also not afraid to just go out and really like a pick or this is what the
1:18.3	player is because we're still projecting people here and it's just very hard.
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