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Van Lathan

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4881 total appearances

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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

It's kind of like a larger, and I don't mean to get too into the weeds on it, but it's a larger conversation about moving from a society where culture dictated football into a society where money dictates football, right?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

It's kind of like a larger, and I don't mean to get too into the weeds on it, but it's a larger conversation about moving from a society where culture dictated football into a society where money dictates football, right?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

It's kind of like a larger, and I don't mean to get too into the weeds on it, but it's a larger conversation about moving from a society where culture dictated football into a society where money dictates football, right?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

So when culture dictates football, you have different areas of the country that play football in different ways because of the caliber of player and the style of play that comes from there, right? Uh, You had Pac-12, Pretty Boy Football. You had bruising, down south SEC football with speed and power. Kind of the same thing. Grinders playing in the cold weather up there in the Big Ten.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

So when culture dictates football, you have different areas of the country that play football in different ways because of the caliber of player and the style of play that comes from there, right? Uh, You had Pac-12, Pretty Boy Football. You had bruising, down south SEC football with speed and power. Kind of the same thing. Grinders playing in the cold weather up there in the Big Ten.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

So when culture dictates football, you have different areas of the country that play football in different ways because of the caliber of player and the style of play that comes from there, right? Uh, You had Pac-12, Pretty Boy Football. You had bruising, down south SEC football with speed and power. Kind of the same thing. Grinders playing in the cold weather up there in the Big Ten.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

And these teams would meet each other and there would really be a clash of those different places. But it was dictated by the kind of talent you could get from where you were and the kind of schemes and offensive and defensive identities.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

And these teams would meet each other and there would really be a clash of those different places. But it was dictated by the kind of talent you could get from where you were and the kind of schemes and offensive and defensive identities.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

And these teams would meet each other and there would really be a clash of those different places. But it was dictated by the kind of talent you could get from where you were and the kind of schemes and offensive and defensive identities.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

That's a conversation with Fox and ESPN. That's really who you're having a conversation with. You're having a conversation with Fox and ESPN or Amazon or Apple or whomever else is making the money go through the roof to align the super conferences and make it worth their while to do it the way that they're doing it right now. That's not a conversation.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

That's a conversation with Fox and ESPN. That's really who you're having a conversation with. You're having a conversation with Fox and ESPN or Amazon or Apple or whomever else is making the money go through the roof to align the super conferences and make it worth their while to do it the way that they're doing it right now. That's not a conversation.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

That's a conversation with Fox and ESPN. That's really who you're having a conversation with. You're having a conversation with Fox and ESPN or Amazon or Apple or whomever else is making the money go through the roof to align the super conferences and make it worth their while to do it the way that they're doing it right now. That's not a conversation.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

Made a lot of progress. There you go. That's what I'm talking about. We still working the game out. We still getting our left hand right. We gonna make them layups. But you're with us.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

Made a lot of progress. There you go. That's what I'm talking about. We still working the game out. We still getting our left hand right. We gonna make them layups. But you're with us.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

Made a lot of progress. There you go. That's what I'm talking about. We still working the game out. We still getting our left hand right. We gonna make them layups. But you're with us.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

Right? That's a lot of money. Why would you stay there? Well, I mean, I think part of that is just, you know, he wants to be an NBA player, you know what I mean?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

Right? That's a lot of money. Why would you stay there? Well, I mean, I think part of that is just, you know, he wants to be an NBA player, you know what I mean?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

Right? That's a lot of money. Why would you stay there? Well, I mean, I think part of that is just, you know, he wants to be an NBA player, you know what I mean?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

These are the NIL conversations that I'm having. Number one, I'm hearing that there are actually high school kids that have committed to various schools that are being paid $10,000, $20,000 a month while they're in high school for them to keep their commitments. That's bananas. That's bonkers. That's crazy.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Indiana’s Incredible Finals Run, a Knicks Summer Strategy Session, and the 'Inside the NBA' ESPN Fit With Ryen Russillo and Van Lathan Jr.

These are the NIL conversations that I'm having. Number one, I'm hearing that there are actually high school kids that have committed to various schools that are being paid $10,000, $20,000 a month while they're in high school for them to keep their commitments. That's bananas. That's bonkers. That's crazy.