The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Hockey Was Fun! But Are the NBA Comps Fair? Plus, Wemby’s Future and the Perfect NBA Starting Five With Kirk Goldsberry.
21 Feb 2025
Russillo starts the show with his thoughts on the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off and discusses whether comparing the tournament to the NBA is fair (1:17). Then, he’s joined by Kirk Goldsberry to preview Wemby’s future, explain the significance of OKC’s defense, and create the perfect starting five (13:40). Plus, Life Advice with Ceruti and Kyle (59:35)! Is my friend being used for a green card? 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: Kirk Goldsberry Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, Mike Wargon, and Jonathan Frias YouTube Ryen Russillo Ryen Russillo is on YouTube! Watch new videos from ‘The Ryen Russillo Podcast’ weekly. Subscribe now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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AT&T I'm back, and I'm ready to talk hockey, but I'm also ready to talk NBA. Both were talked about. Both were compared. Some of the stuff I get, some of it I don't get. That's the monologue. Kirk Goldsberry, we're talking NBA with him. The Spurs-Wemby situation. We put together our most complimentary starting fives with today's players. Life advice and a jury duty update from who else? Kyle.
Let's talk a little hockey.
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I'm as Canadian as it gets. I'm not Canadian, but I'm pretty Canadian. My mother's side of the family, great-grandmother, she lived in Sherbrooke, died in Sherbrooke. Summers and Ayers, Cliff, Magog, Albert Mines, Moe's River, Milby. Roos's Point, if you get lost on the way back. I make my Toronto jokes. Some of those Raptors fans, I'll hate you forever, but that's not fair to all of Toronto.
Maybe some of the surrounding areas, because if the business is true and you left your moms in the hood, somebody go smoke that ute. So I'll never necessarily get over that. I remember going back to 1996 Team USA playing Canada in the World Cup of Hockey, I believe. We were over at Berkey's, Howe, Sloat, Berker. I had a bunch of the hockey guys over. We were, what, 21, 22? They were like 24.
But yeah, some of the NHL guys, Timmy, Saint, Juice.
sorgi whatever we're sitting there with all these canadian dudes some of those guys are american that i just named i just like saying hockey names and we're watching look we didn't care about the result of that game 48 hours before it we probably forgot didn't care about the result of that game 24 hours later maybe six hours later but we sat in a big room we watched the game we cheered like american idiots you know maybe we played free bird it was kind of fun seeing people dress up like ben franklin all the music and all that stuff you know america fuck yeah but
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