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The Woj Pod

Rob McClanaghan

The Woj Pod

ESPN

Sports

4.6722 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Trainer Rob McClanaghan joins The Woj Pod to discuss his decade in the NBA working with the league's biggest stars - including Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, Derrick Rose, Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook - and his close proximity to some of the biggest free agent and NBA Draft stories of recent years. McClanaghan's new book, "Net Work: Training The NBA's Best and Finding the Keys to Greatness," is available now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome into another edition of the WogePod.

0:07.6

Here with Rob McClanahan, one of the preeminent trainers in all of basketball.

0:14.4

His client list has been a who's who of the most important and dominant influential players of this past decade, Kevin Durant,

0:23.6

Steph Curry, Derek Rose, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love, and many more.

0:30.9

Rob has a new book out called Network, Training the NBA's Best, and Finding the Keys to

0:36.7

Greatness, a great read that's really a window

0:40.5

into this past decade of change in the NBA.

0:44.3

Rob has been on the ground floor of it all.

0:47.1

Really enjoyed my visit with Rob McClanahan.

0:49.5

Thank you Will too.

0:51.0

Here's Rob.

0:52.2

The book is really good, and I've had a chance to read most of it, and it's an

0:56.6

interesting roadmap, not just to your career as a trainer, Rob, but to the way the

1:01.5

NBA has evolved and changed in the last year you've been in the league, or the last

1:08.0

decade, I should say, that you've done this.

1:11.1

And to me, especially, I think in your story, you know, you were a walk-on at Syracuse,

1:17.3

you tried college coaching for a little bit.

1:19.9

And you end up with the Wasserman Media Group with Arn Tellam, who at the time was, perhaps

1:25.3

the preeminent agent in the league.

1:28.8

And at the time, it wasn't new.

1:32.9

You know, Neil Olshea, who's the president in Portland,

1:35.3

had your job years earlier and worked his way up with the Clippers as an assistant

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