The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
15 Jan 2025
Russillo welcomes Bobby Marks to preview the NBA trade deadline and discuss what could happen to Jimmy Butler, Bradley Beal, Zach LaVine, and Zion Williamson (0:42). Then, he’s joined by Ted Nguyen to break down all four divisional-round games, share where teams have the edge, and give his picks (52:51). Finally, Ceruti and Kyle join for Life Advice (80:39)! How do I handle my friend with money offering to pay for things for us? Check us out on YouTube for exclusive clips, livestreams, and more at https://www.youtube.com/@RyenRussilloPodcast. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Bobby Marks and Ted Nguyen Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Today's podcast is loaded. We've got NBA, we've got NFL. We start with Bobby Marks, taking a look at the NBA names that are part of the NBA trade market. Can I interest you in some deal? Perhaps some Butler, maybe a little Zion, even a little, little bean. And then we're going to talk with Ted Wynn from The Athletic, who is just great on the film breakdown stuff.
I've enjoyed reading his stuff all season long. So he's going to help us look for some things in the divisional round for this weekend that he's going to pick all the games. We've got a lot of advice. Joining us to talk about the NBA as we're about the halfway mark, almost game 40 for a lot of teams, is Bobby Marks, former front office executive and one of my favorite NBA guests.
Okay, let's look at it this way. Let's look at all these headline things. Let's talk it out, all the different stuff. I have talked about Jimmy Butler, not a ton on the pod, but I felt like it's exciting. It's the big name. It's the next domino to fall with the drama. I mean, we're used to having these things happen, so this is exciting. So he gets suspended. He's eligible to come back tomorrow.
We know that there's a massive player option north of $50 million this summer. We can talk about the egos involved and that Jimmy's a stubborn guy and that Pat is somebody who's a pretty accomplished dude who's not going to be pushed around a little bit. I guess I've just never quite wondered why the Heat would still want to be in the Jimmy Butler business.
You don't want to sign him to a long-term deal. He's 35. He was always a pain in the ass there, but he was your pain in the ass. And when you were winning, it was worth it. Now it's not worth it. I don't really think the market for him would be all that great in looking at previous deals because I think sometimes you'd be like, well, how many picks or whatever? And it's like, I don't know.
It might be like one okay pick and one other pick that doesn't really mean anything. And then I wonder, as I promise I'll get to your bottom, but then I wonder, like, will we have a James Harden thing where Jimmy –
doesn't get traded before the deadline, rides it out, and then it's like, actually the best way for me to sort of protect my money is to opt in for the $52 million player option this summer.
And then they're stuck with me all over again because James did that strategically, not because he wanted freedom, because he knew he'd be able to kind of control where he could go and then what his next contract would be. So I just don't...
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