The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Part 1: More Mavs Misery with Kyrie Out for the Season, 15 NBA East Teams in 15(ish) Minutes, and Les Claypool of Primus!
04 Mar 2025
The first installment of this two-part special starts with Russillo sharing his thoughts on Kyrie Irving’s season-ending injury and how it affects how we look at the Luka trade. Then, he runs through the NBA’s 15 Eastern Conference teams in just over 15 minutes (6:06). Later, Primus’ Les Claypool joins the show to talk about their search for a new drummer, his time with Oysterhead, and the journey of his career (52:30) . 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 Guest: Les Claypool Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, Mike Wargon, and Jonathan Frias This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.® Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Full Episode
We don't do this very often, boys and girls, we've got a two-part podcast for the Ryan So, part one, Kyrie Irving out for the season. Let's talk some Mavs. We're going to be really nice to Mavs fans. That's how we feel for you. Also, the East, after last week's West, 15 teams in 15 minutes, we do the East, 15 teams in 45 minutes. Sorry, went long. Let's Claypool.
Perhaps the greatest bass player alive from Primus, four decades long. The search for a new drummer, his career, and appreciation for what he's accomplished. And the Letterman story that I'd never heard before. I was fired up to talk to Wes Claypool, man. I have loved this guy for a really long time, so it was cool. I'm going to get to the East here. 15 teams in 15 minutes-ish.
But we have to start with the headline, the breaking news this morning. Kyrie Irving lost for the season with a torn ACL. We were watching it last night on the drive. You were wondering, could it have been something else? He's helped off. He makes the free throws. And then we get the word this morning. I'll just tell you right now, Mavs fans, I feel for you.
I mean, this is an absolutely brutal, brutal stretch. You know, I know some of the talking points on this are kind of the karma element of it, but you're also doing that to millions of Mavs fans. So if this were about karma... they would deserve a deep playoff run.
Because I still think with a healthy AD and a healthy Kyrie, and I've mentioned this before, I really like Dallas and their offseason and some of their improvements around this team with Luka in place, considering this is a finals team last year that had to navigate a really tough West. But, all right, so Luka's gone. We've covered that.
then you're thinking at least for 25 with a healthy AD who's been incredible the last couple of years, which again was another whole reason why for all the reasons the trade was ridiculous and should have never happened. You're trading for an Anthony Davis that I think the biggest Anthony Davis fans would tell you, you're always worried about that next moment.
I mean, one of the, I don't even want to use the word funny, but you know, living in LA when 80 was hurt, you know, it's after the title, uh, And there's this kind of like limbo phase of the Lakers. And local radio would be like, well, what could you get for AD? And it's a bit like the Zion conversation where, okay, what's the market for Zion?
I mean, some of the most negative, absurd Zion being at the lowest value rating was still just ridiculous. It's like, look, another team would trade for him. But I think the win in what you're seeing from the way Zion is playing is that the Pelicans are like, okay, I think we actually need to pivot off of this. Um, his market has recovered.
It will recover if he continues to play like this and is healthy going into the off season. So when you think about the lowest point of the Anthony Davis stretches, was it where it wasn't about his playing? It was about his availability and then trying to project out as he got older and be like, okay, well,
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