Stubborn NBA Power Rankings. Plus, Eddie Johnson on the State of the Suns and Moses Malone Stories, and Life Advice With Max Homa.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Russillo shares his midseason Stubborn NBA Power Rankings, running through his top 10 teams based on a few key factors (0:26). Then Ryen is joined by SiriusXM's Eddie Johnson to discuss the state of the Phoenix Suns amid injuries to Chris Paul and Devin Booker, stories from Eddie's long NBA career, and more (14:28). Finally, Ryen is joined by PGA golfer Max Homa to answer some listener-submitted Golf Life Advice questions (54:45). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Eddie Johnson and Max Homa Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have a doozy for you. It's a long one. We do an hour long life and buy some Max
0:14.5	Homa on mostly golf. Eddie Johnson, Phoenix Suns broadcasts, NBA radio, what's over the
0:19.0	suns and a little Moses Malone story time and I have my first edition of the Racillo NBA
0:23.6	stubborn power rankings. We have a lot to do today. So let's get to it. This is our halfway
0:29.6	installment. Just past the halfway point of the NBA season. These are my NBA stubborn power
0:34.4	rankings. It's my own formula. If you were up last night watching San Antonio Brooklyn,
0:40.8	without Kyrie and Kevin Durant, then maybe I'll hear an argument from you. If you were not,
0:45.1	I don't want to hear it. It's based on my own formula of health bets, who has the best health,
0:53.2	almost nobody. Faith is part of this too. I don't not saying it's a higher calling, but we're
1:00.0	going to run through this. All right. NBA stubborn power rankings, number one, Boston
1:03.6	Celtics. I don't really know that there's really any discussion for who else would be number one.
1:06.8	Does it guarantee them anything? No, of course not. Doesn't guarantee anything. If you're
1:09.9	counter to any of these, they won't win. The odds are in your favor. The point is here is that
1:15.2	Tatum and Jaylen Brown play games. And I know Jaylen's dealing with a growing injury right now.
1:19.0	These guys play. There's another conversation to be had that was pretty interesting. I was talking
1:24.2	with a league guy last night. We were going through kind of like how the top two's and how we were
1:28.4	always conditioned to the top three's when Miami was running through the league and going to four
1:33.6	straight finals, it was because you looked at their big three. And then big three almost became
1:37.6	mandatory for any team that was trying to compete for a title. And Golden State had theirs. And then
1:41.9	they added another guy named Kevin Durant to make the most absurd big four probably of all time.
1:46.7	And arguably the most talented five man roster. I think I've ever seen the NBA history. So
1:51.6	then when the Lakers added Anthony Davis, then it became kind of mandatory to be like,
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