To be fair, he mentioned Drew in passing and qualified his statement as "since the Internet's existed, basically."
It's really, really easy to make accurate predictions about things that have happened, though.
Unfortunately Mariah Carey doesn't sound like Mariah Carey anymore, too many dog whistle notes over the years have messed up her vocals.
Maybe he moved into the top ten? He was top ten this year but I don't think he was a top ten player (guys like Embiid and Kawhi slide right back in)
Russillo will be so hard to the paint on the draft Sunday with a small bit of "I have always been pro the Celtics not sure what some of these people are talking about."
Sports do such weird things to us - Ive listened to 'Yellow Ledbetter' hundreds if not thousands of times. A handful of times live. Has it made me a bit emotional and sentimental at times? 100%. But it wasnt until the opening rift kicked in this morning at the end of this podcast did my eyes actually well up with tears.
I forgot that his dad can be seen in that Bon Jovi Dancing Fan video until I was showing it to my son the other day
Russillo rightfully was brutalized by SVP though I don't know if Van Pelt knew he was slamming the shit out of Russillo. Basically Van Pelt just kept going on and on about how ridiculous it was for anyone who knew basketball thought the Mavs had a real chance. Really drove in how ridiculous it was that people thought Kyrie was better than Tatum and Brown. Russillo just sat gaped jaw until it seems Van Pelt caught on when he was making fun of Legler for choosing the Mavs. They moved quickly on to golf where Russillo started talking again.
Yup, it was good, listened to it after my my brain exploded listening to Russillo's drivel. Bill wanted the guy the Cs drafted. He's good.
People who complained that Russillo and Simmons didn't do a post-Finals pod should listen to this one. Simmons said no fewer than 3 times during the pod that he really hoped the Celtics would draft the guy they did. Then they drafted him and Simmons and Russillo spent all of 30 seconds talking about him before moving on to discussing - I kid you not - sports jerseys they have owned. I just think they'd rather pontificate than talk with one another about what actually happened when it comes to the Celtics.
Bill did a nice pod with his Dad about the title. I enjoyed it. I don’t need him to spend another episode taking to Russillo about it. It’d suck. Hard.
Yeah, I buy this take I enjoyed that episode. Fwiw I think Ryen is just a victim of over exposure now on Bills pod. I think Bill is at the tail end of his podcasting career and at this point what he can do on autopilot is vomit out hours and hours of NBA deep cuts. Pretty sure I’ve heard more than one Jim Loscutoff reference in the last couple weeks alone.
He's defended this before by saying that he wasn't aware of the pick swap. But even without that...I'm no NBA wizard, but my instant takes were that the Celtics window is closed, period. And the first Brooklyn pick would likely not be valuable, but the ones further down the road had potential given the age of Brooklyn's roster. I didn't anticipate the bottom falling out like it did, or course. But I was pretty happy with the return for 34 year old Pierce and 35 year old KG.
It was, but in fairness I believe that was him talking up Giannis early in the clip (and he'd normally be the type to make fun of the foreign guy going against vastly inferior competition), so credit there. He was so awful on tv, which made it entertaining.
