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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Top NBA Offseason Stories and Rumors, Plus NBA Champion Bobby Portis

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares the biggest offseason NBA story lines (0:27), before talking with NBA champion Bobby Portis about the title celebration, the Finals series, Bobby’s NBA journey, what’s next, and more (23:30). Finally, Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (42:35). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Bobby Portis Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

A lot of NBA today on the pod, we're going to go over the biggest offseason storylines,

0:14.4

try to make sense of the first week of a bunch of rumors with a bunch of names attached

0:18.0

to it.

0:19.0

We'll do that with Saruti as well, and Bobby Portis, NBA champ on his championship season

0:23.7

and a big free agency decision, looming at life advice.

0:28.1

Today's open is a simple headline.

0:30.9

The NBA's biggest offseason stories in no particular order of importance, but I'm trying

0:35.8

to figure out which of the biggest ones were because we had a bunch of cannon fire over

0:39.2

the weekend, but shots, lots of news up in the air.

0:42.3

And I want to put them all together.

0:43.4

Again, the ones that seem like they're the most important and then we're going to kind

0:46.2

of sift through them and Saruti's going to jump in a little bit later.

0:48.3

All right.

0:49.3

So we'll see if I leave out anything here too, which is always a possibility.

0:51.6

I'm going to start with the Lakers, not because it's the most important because they're

0:54.4

associated with the most players.

0:56.4

Every weekend, I've read they have interest in Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook, Carl Lowry,

0:59.7

Demar DeRose, and Damien Lillard, Spencer Dunwoody, Buddy Heald, and Pat Mahomes, which I don't

1:04.4

know how we fit, but it makes sense to tell it to player.

1:07.3

But that's how it works.

1:08.3

I mean, it's a Lakers, first of all, Magic Johnson just tweeting out left and right about

1:11.0

Chris Paul.

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