Revisiting 30 Years of NBA Ring Chasing, Plus LeBron Is Back! (Kidding) With Mike Trudell

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Russillo opens by going through most of the big NBA ring chaser moves of the last 30 years and how Dame Lillard to Miami might stack up (0:37). Then he chats with Lakers reporter Mike Trudell and jokes about LeBron announcing he’s returning next season, discusses whether Anthony Davis found the best version of himself last year, and tells a great story about Austin Reaves (19:40). Finally, the guys close it out with some listener-submitted life advice questions (51:57). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Mike Trudell Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's podcast we're going to talk about Mike Trudeau, Lakers reporter, just love having
0:14.1	the guy around, he's really good on stuff, but but Ron's not retiring.
0:17.1	Not a surprise with that one, but more so, AD, the offseason is this really the second
0:21.8	best team in the West.
0:23.4	Ring chasers, I'm going to go through about 30 years of guys that left and try to figure
0:28.3	out the three that perhaps are the most egregious and deserve the most pushback and life advice.
0:37.0	I want to start today's pod talking about the ring chasers, maybe we'll throw a little
0:40.8	Z on that for the kids.
0:42.9	We spend a lot of time looking at dudes, forcing trades, sometimes it's in free agency,
0:47.3	and you're like, I don't like that.
0:50.2	But some of them, we should be like, that's fine, that's totally cool, I don't have
0:53.6	a problem with that.
0:54.6	I went back 30 years.
0:55.6	I looked at a lot of them.
0:56.6	Did I look at all of them?
0:57.6	There's probably a couple that I've missed, but I have an extensive list here.
1:00.1	I want to go through and talk about some of the ring chasers and how that relates to
1:03.6	Dane potentially going to Miami, because it still feels like Miami's probably going to
1:06.9	get their way.
1:07.9	It's just Portland's like, hey, it's July, you don't like the offer.
1:09.8	You can see what happens.
1:11.5	I have some rules here.
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