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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Raptors Head Coach Nick Nurse, the Beal-Bazemore Beef, and Raising Cane’s Founder Todd Graves

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on celebrity "beefs" as well as the online exchange between NBA players Bradley Beal and Kent Bazemore (2:00), before talking with NBA champion and head coach of the Toronto Raptors Nick Nurse about the 2020-21 NBA season, dealing with adversity, the Raptors' 2019 championship run, coaching Kawhi Leonard, Kyle Lowry, the Raptors' defensive schemes, and more (15:30). Then Ryen talks with founder and CEO of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers Todd Graves about building the business right out of college, his new TV show 'Restaurant Recovery' on Discovery+, tips for growing a small business, and more (47:00). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:07:00). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Nick Nurse, Todd Graves Producer: Kyle Crichton Producer: Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It was just kind of like, you know, I look at him saying, you know, let's go, man, it's,

0:06.7

you know, nine and a half.

0:07.7

It's time to, it's your time to roll and he'd look at me and say, need about another

0:12.0

minute and a half coach.

0:13.6

And I'd be like, Jesus Christ, I still hope we're in the game here.

0:17.5

You know what?

0:18.5

Another minute and a half.

0:20.2

And then he'd go out there and he might even wait to, you know, he'd go up at a minute

0:23.8

and a half and the ball wouldn't go dead.

0:25.4

And now we'd be down to six and a half and man with that six and a half, be amazed.

0:29.2

I mean, you know, be like every style or key steel and offensive rebound, a three, a bucket,

0:34.4

you know, just like, like he knew exactly how hard he wanted to play at that moment and

0:40.0

how much was in the tank to be able to do that.

0:42.9

And he just would gauge that every now and then and and very, you know, what was going

0:48.0

on.

0:49.0

That was Raptor's hip coach Nick Nurse talking about his time with Kauai.

0:52.5

Leonard, we got like 30 plus minutes with him.

0:54.4

Why does everybody have him as one of the best coaches in the NBA.

0:57.4

Scott Graves founder of Raising Cain, Chicken Fingers, an amazing story out of Bat Rouge and

1:03.6

an open monologue and life advice.

1:06.4

We have a lot to get to on today's podcast.

1:08.3

So I'll try to make this brief off the top.

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