Wemby, Scoot, Harden, and More NBA Future Scenarios, Plus Pelicans Guard CJ McCollum and a 'Succession' Recap

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Russillo shares his thoughts on Victor Wembanyama's fit in San Antonio, the Hornets' decision with the second pick, where that will leave Portland at no. 3, James Harden's free agency, and more (0:45). Then Ryen talks with Pelicans guard CJ McCollum about the Nuggets' path to the Finals, what the ceiling is for the Pelicans roster, Zion Williamson, the future for Damian Lillard and the Trail Blazers, being the NBPA president, working on the CBA, and more (29:03). Finally Ryen, Ceruti, and Kyle discuss HBO's 'Succession' S4, E9, "Church and State", before answering some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:12:31). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: CJ McCollum Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of the podcast, I kind of give you a little bit of free agency primer
0:15.8	off of the lottery being set and how that impacts the picks behind them, how that could
0:19.8	impact some of the trade stuff, teams who've kept space, some of the best free agents and
0:23.5	the hardened problem in Philadelphia.
0:26.8	And CJ McCollum, not only the Pelicans, but the players association president.
0:30.6	We're going to talk design.
0:31.6	We're going to talk to Dame.
0:32.4	We're going to talk about the West, specifically the nuggets and how great Joker and Murray
0:37.0	are.
0:38.0	And then some of the CBA stuff that I love at the end as well.
0:40.5	Life advice, succession recap, one episode to go and joy.
0:45.2	Because we had no games last night, I'm not going to do any tales of the couch type of
0:48.6	stuff, you know, unfortunately, the way it lands on the Tuesday, Thursdays and sometimes
0:51.8	like I'll get caught in the same series.
0:53.4	And I'll talk about the other one.
0:54.4	It's just basically a scheduling thing.
0:56.6	But after coming back from the combine, hanging out, talking to people after the combine,
1:00.8	I just wanted to run through a bunch of different things as we lead into what is going to be
1:04.3	a really interesting offseason, but also limited and maybe some of the excitement.
1:07.9	But as soon as you say that with this league, you know, that's not going to be the case.
1:11.5	Because we're still, we have no idea that the two or three things that are going to happen
1:15.4	that are going to happen.
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