SGA vs. Wemby, Back-to-Back MVPs, Knicks–Cavs & the Flawed Pistons w/ Brendan Haywood, Plus Hornets Coach Charles Lee
The Ryen Russillo Show
Barstool Sports
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Ryen opens with the Cavs’ Game 7 win, the Pistons’ flaws, and how confident he is in the Knicks reaching the Finals before talking about SGA’s back-to-back MVP awards and ranking the top 16 players in the Thunder–Spurs series, including SGA vs. Wemby for the top spot. Then, NBA champion Brendan Haywood stops by to break down both conference finals matchups, plus how to defend Wemby, share Kobe and LeBron stories, and explain why the 2011 Mavs were so motivated to beat the Heat. Finally, Kyle and Ceruti join for some listener-submitted Life Advice, including arguing with the elderly and pursuing an ex’s friend. NBA OPEN (1:47) Cavs beat Pistons in 7 & ECF pick (10:00) SGA wins MVP again (11:14) Ranking players in Thunder–Spurs BRENDAN HAYWOOD (21:36) Cavs bigs vs. Pistons bigs (27:30) Knicks–Cavs (32:50) Wemby or SGA right now? (34:55) Defending Wemby (41:31) LeBron and Kobe stories (51:21) Heat mocking Dirk’s illness in 2011 Finals NBA ALLIANCE (55:30) CHARLES LEE (1:02:00) How the Hornets took a huge leap (1:06:56) Drafting Kon Knueppel (1:12:20) Coaching LaMelo (1:18:23) Favorite player he’s coached (1:21:50) Learning from Orlando play-in blowout LIFE ADVICE (1:24:36) _ _ _ _ _ Learn more at https://m365copilot.com/work _ _ _ _ _ Get 20% off your first purchase at https://FastGrowingTrees.com/RYEN when using the code RYEN at checkout _ _ _ _ _
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Rosillo listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcast and Spotify. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
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| 0:23.4 | Today, a lot of hoops. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm going to pick the Western Conference Finals, the Eastern Conference Finals. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm going to do with Brendan Haywood, who's going to tell us some awesome stories from his 2011 |
| 0:31.6 | championship run with the Dallas Mavericks against LeBron. |
| 0:34.3 | And we have a fun exercise picking all of the players from OKC and San Antonio's |
| 0:39.6 | roster. And how would you pick the top 16 if you combine the two? Not future value players right |
| 0:45.2 | now for this series. I can't wait for this series. I also have some tidying up on Cleveland's |
| 0:49.1 | advancing through Detroit and how disappointing game seven was for the Pistons. We've got that. |
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| 2:29.5 | time on last night's win by Cleveland. Moving on to the Eastern Conference Finals, it just wasn't that great of a game. A couple things that I want to point out. If the Bigs are going to play like this for Cleveland, and you can expect to just pencil them in for what was the combined line here, 44, 9 and 7, 15 to 24 from the floor for Mobley and Jared Allen, and that's with 11 mis-free throws. There was one point where I was looking at the game in the second quarter and Detroit's like |
| 2:54.6 | stuck up 35. |
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