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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Richard Jefferson Tells Jason Kidd Stories, Nikola Vucevic Talks Adversity, and Ryen Tries to Understand Draymond’s Unsolvable Question

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on Draymond Green’s comments about the double standard of teams and players (1:30), before talking with NBA champion and analyst Richard Jefferson about his time with the New Jersey Nets, a ton of Jason Kidd stories, the relationships between players and teams, trades, and more (14:00). Then Ryen talks with Orlando Magic center Nikola Vucevic about coming to the U.S. to finish high school, his basketball journey at USC, transitioning to the NBA, battling adversity this season, dealing with trade rumors, and more (58:30). Finally, Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:23:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's podcast is incredible. It's a ton of basketball. I'm going to talk about Dremont's

0:15.4

comments a little bit off the top and then we're going to ask Richard Jefferson about those

0:18.4

comments and also about the nets, the big comeback, the season, his nets, Jason Kid's stories,

0:23.7

Kenyan Martin and Vouch. That's right, the big guy in Orlando. Nicola Vouchovich is going

0:29.2

to join us to talk about his career and what's next for him and the magic and some life

0:33.0

advice. I wanted to touch on the Dremont green comments here at the top. I'm hopefully

0:38.1

not going to spend a ton of time on this. You never know with me, right? We're going

0:41.0

to ask Richard Jefferson about it too because better perspective considering this is more

0:44.1

about him, right? This is about players, NBA players and it's really about athletes. And

0:49.7

Dremont's comments, which we'll get to here in a second, which is giving you a short

0:53.1

clip of it. Essentially, it's the disappointment in how things are handled because of whether

0:59.7

it's a player asking for a trade, which I think all trade demands are not created equal.

1:04.1

I think there's some that we are sympathetic to others that we were frustrated and furiated

1:08.4

by depending on who you're rooting for. And yet there's also this other example of a situation

1:14.2

like Blake Griffin in Andre Drummond being sat and apparently Dremont felt like there

1:19.5

wasn't enough criticism for the team. So here's Dremont. Watch Andre Drummond before the

1:23.6

game sit on the sideline, then go to the bat and then come out and street close because

1:30.9

the team is going to trade him as bullshit because when James Harden asked for a trade and

1:38.7

essentially dog did I don't think there was no surprise or no, you know, there's no

1:44.1

one's going to fight back that James was dawdling his last days in Houston. But he was

1:50.9

castrated for wanting to go to a different team and everybody destroyed that man. And yet

1:58.1

a team can come out and say, oh, we want to trade a guy. And then that guy is to go sit.

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