The Open Run With Will Strickland

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 236 – Miles x Minutes How wide do you believe the gap between “good” and “great” is?It's not rhetorical.Many a player, team and coach with ask of themselves and others the very same question, verbally or in competition.What does it take to get there?Almost two years ago to the day, the now 14-2 Detroit Pistons were the worst team in NBA history, squarely in the middle of a record 28-game winning strike.With arguably the greatest MVP race in league history, the highest first-month viewership rating in 15 seasons, the optics of a legendary draft class plying their trade in the NCAA for NIL checks and the women of the WNBA standing on business so strong, their feet are tired, the only losses to be had here is if you don’t tune in for… well…You know the rest!Be grateful.Be thankful!News.Views.Truths.References Made: Awa Fam, St. John’s University, free throw merchant, The Notorious B.I.3, Podcast P, Buffalo Braves, Emirates Cup, TiagoSplitter, YouTube, basketball-related income, Clayton Bigsby, Toronto Tempo, catnip, Storrs Connecticut, Chennedy Carter, Monster’s Ball, Pay Thanksgiving, Atlantic Coast Conference, misdemeanor strangulation, Fudd Around & Find Out, Winthrop Eagles, Burlington Coat Factory, RIP H. Rap Brown, BOO-YAH!!!, New Jersey Nets, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Do What’s Popular With The Population! Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1 

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 235 – Critiques x Credibility Who would hire a cab driver to build a new home for them?Oft times, in today’s sports media landscape, the rough equivalent of that same cab driver is given the keys to the reporting car, spouting baseless drivel about a gamethey’ve never played.On many an occasion, it's reared its ugly heads in the most beautiful game of basketball.Here to fight the tomfoolery, Wall $t., along with former Sporting News digital content producer and Wake Forest hoops alum Gilbert McGregor!Amazing college action in the early season, hoops octogenarians dropping milestones, and your favorite Player Who Shan’t Be Named Is Back!We separate the Fact from the Lie…Let us learn you!News.Views.Truths.References Made: Serge Ibaka, League Pass, Mouse McFadden, kerfuffle, AJ Dybantsa, Ft. Worth, Syla Swords, confections, “Real SC”, MiamiHeat, Nikola Vucevic, Taco Tuesday, YouTube, Dolemite, Actual Fact Syndrome, Luke Walton, NBA DEI Player Hire, Jusef Nurkic shade, Tulsa King, Grand Theft Hildalgo, and more, all on thepodcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Don’t Get Beat Off The Dribble! Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 234 – Interruptin’ My Kung Fu “If You’re Going Nowhere In Life, Any Road Will Take You There…”This bar from Wall $t’s Dear Ol’ Grams (Bless The Dead), uttered to him when he was but a wee lad, set the groundwork for his decision to trail blaze and never path find.The wise woman’s words came with an additional caveat: don’t allow distraction to derail your destination.Our special guest this week rides a similar wave as we call on Canadian professional hooper, broadcaster, auteur and podcaster Duane Notice to put his lens on the goingson in The Association’s third week, including watching fellow University of South Carolina Gamecock alum Collin Murray-Boyles on his hometown Raptors, and why the game is in good hands as we check some super freshmen hooping in the NCAA.We also welcome a Hall of Fame coach to Toronto and send rest in power shouts to a legend of the game.The younglings it’s gon’ be a movie. If you miss this one, it won’t be cinematic. News.Views.Truths.References Made: Kon Kneuppel, “Auntie”, NBA2K, The Big O, lemon pepper wangs, Tiago Splitter, The Source Awards, DEEEEEEEE-TROITBAS-KET-BALLLL, cricket-y, Super Nature, What Da Duck?, Shanti Das, Black Dynamite, Diane Keaton, aughts, Dan Shulman, “American accent”, The RZA, Project B, RIP Lenny Wilkins, imposer syndrome, Jerry Rice, FAFO, “gaming”, andmore, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One:The Open Run With Will Strickland! Do What’s Popular With The Population! Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1 

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 233 – Strategic Amnesia Misremembering… Learning how to forget… Convenient tools on occasion.In the ongoing battle of era toughness and credibility, the past and those who hold it dear, some to the point of grossly misrepresenting the goings on of the time. This week’s guest, Senior Advisor – Basketball, for Capelli Sport, Mike Parker, taps his thinktank for his belief in yesterday, as well as today and tomorrow on the new preps-to-college landscape, legendary kick gameMike also chats with Wall $t. about his career, adapting to change in the game and industry, the start of the college basketball season, developments in WNBA collectivebargaining talks, and the first fortnight of the NBA’s 80th season.We’ll remember the time and embrace the moment.You should, too!News.Views.Truths.References Made: Supreme Mathematics, fit>pick, G-Unit, DePaul Blue Demons, white-on-white crime, Cedric Coward, quintuple single, MaryTisdale, per 36, “VJMaxx”, Mt. Mutumbo, Washington Capitols, Mario Elie, The Louvre, #RIPJMJ, Houston Comets, Toby Forniere, Puerto Rico AF1s, William Maxwell Dixon, Degeneration X, Nike Battlegrounds, Alcatraz, Nate Ament, Mebounds, Cornell University, DJ Clark Kent, And1, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The OpenRun With Will Strickland! Don’t Get Beat Off The Dribble! Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1 

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 232 – Wanna Bet? Appealing to someone’s competitive nature is one thing; crafting an environment where greed and excess are normalized to the degree that people see it as aspirational is another.Gambl—ahem… pardon us… “gaming”, legal or otherwise, in sports has, is and will always be a divisive topic for many.When the integrity of a league, organization or person comes into question as it pertains to gambling’s more pernicious elements, well… prepare for scandal, exposure and a whole lot of dry beggin’ / snitchin’ to occur.Most of that telling will be on ourselves.We’ve had a helluva opening week to the 80th campaign of the National Basketball Association!Feds, arrests, anticipated debuts, amazing returns, supersized scoring output and perhaps more questions than answers at this point!Hop on for the ride…It’s a good train!News.Views.Truths.References Made: Gil’s Arena, John Tesh, The Maine Event, contractual obligation, The Unction, Tiago Splitter, Reebok, Lob City East, Timberlands, financial wellness, “This Thing Of Ours”, Marshall Walter “Major”Taylor, Portland Fire, Olivia Miles, B.R.I., American Exceptionalism, Springfield YMCA, Sandy Brondello, aristocrat, Werner Ladders, N.I.L. money, Iowa Wolves, Chauncey Ray Billups, double entendre, Disney Sports, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Do What’s Popular With The Population! Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 231 - Untitled Ever been on the outside of an inside joke?Make sure you are not as Wall $t. might crack a smile, but ain’t a damn thing funny about mixing it up with Austin, Texas’ AM 1300 The Zone’s The Morning Kickoff’s duo! Former Major League baseball player, Friend of the Program and high school hoops teammate of your host, Mike “Hardball” Hardge, and The World’s Strongest Man (or second-strongest, depending upon who you ask), WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henrybreak down their careers, how they teamed up for their radio show, who’d be better in the other’s sport, Rice University vs The University of Texas, the NBA’s Texas Triangle of teams and more!Does a special guest referee or tag team partner show to even out the odds in this handicapable match to give a proper salute to the WNBA season that was and The Commish who soon won’t, as well as preview the 80th campaign of the National Basketball Association?The answer’s in the question.Confirm by tuning in to get the goods!News.Views.Truths.References Made: Bufftitude, The Ultimate Scoring Machine, Killeen, Montreal Expos, Ludacris, Midnight Madness, Yokozuna, versatility,Quinn Ewers, Little Dribblers, Rori Harmon, #DAAAAAJankiLoos, Jackie Young, “spinal”, The Undertaker, The Lyin-Ass Jacket, Bill Buckner, Hero Theme Music, niacin, NoLimit soldiers, Reebok, lower podcast injury, Ja Wick, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Do What’s Popular With The Population!Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 230 – Screams Beneath The Soil What you focus upon will grow.Be it is negativity or positivity in your crosshairs, your energy will reveal and yield.On the show this week to help our hoops goodness bloom and blossom is Friend of the Program and co-host of CBC Gem’s The Great Canadian Baking Show, Alan Shane Lewis. Though we should have hailed the 2025 WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces in the face of a potential momentum-stunting work stoppage and reviewed the NBA’s yearly General Manager’s survey, we gave up the goods during the most important gifting of accolades show in podcasting, the 5th Annual #DoWork Awards – Preseason Edition instead!Violations after The W Finals sweep and a week before the 80th campaign for The Association?Listen first.Tell us later.News.Views.Truths.References Made: Cooper Dy’Shawn Flagg, The Black Falcon, Attention Economist, #SuckaSauce, Megan Pete, dinosaurs, Yaasin Bey, BARbarian, John Andrew Vernon Ruskin, “Dice Trae”, vegemite, Slim Jesus, fanalytics, Django Unchained, Airious, midrange assassin, The Notorious B.I.3., “gaming”, SGA, Uber, Jontay Porter, Toronto Maple Leafs, Pablo Torre, WWE Superstars, Jalen Suggs, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Don’t Get Beat Off The Dribble! Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 229 – The Violence Of Truth My Dear Ol’ Dad (Bless The Dead) used to say that there are two sides to every story… three when you include… Well…Friend of the Program and all-everything Canadian sports broadcaster Savanna Hamilton will help me to get to that.Whether we’re discussing Kawhi and the Clippers using the NBA like it’s the Fifth Amendment in the face of a league investigation into potential cap circumvention, the conflict between Napheesa Collier and the commissioner of the WNBA, or several record setting performances during the games of the first-ever best-of-seven series of the W’s Finals in history, if you can identify the prevarication in our analysis, let us know!News.Views.Truths.References Made: Cinderella Stories, Bad Bunny, Call Her Daddy, equity, Cheryl Miller, The Bubble, Unrivalled, Dearica Hamby, FAFO, Russia, The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto Mans, full gub’ment, Masai Ujiri, air quotes, Collin Murray-Boyles, artificial intelligence, RIPoetry In Moten, The Baddies, wrasslin’, Satou Sabally, The Decision 2, Podcast P, Copperas Cove High School, Stephanie White, Love x Basketball, nepo babies, Detroit Shock, “yappa”, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Do What’s Popular With The Population! Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 228 – Anti-Social Media I’ve always had a Love | Hate relationship with these rough interweb streets.Working in sports media in Canada didn’t change it; only amplified it.Circumstances changed.  We’re here wow, but I’m revisiting its relevance in Life. The Internet is Forever… and so is one of the hotly contested WNBA semifinals ever, including an all-time coaching crash out that would lead to something even greater.The first week of Fall brings us closer to NBA media day for its 80th campaign and 23d for arguably sports first social media superstar.Absurd, but true.Don’t let envy and shame keep you from embracing the moments.Let the quality hoops talk hook you!News.Views.Truths.References Made: VJ Edgecombe, 3-6 Latvia, DJ Cucumber Slice, PortlandFire, Sloot, crash out, Gamecock Fight, TikTok, TSN, LinkedIn, The Artist Formerly Known As Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., algorithm, Trill Burgers, DeWanna Bonner, litigiousness, The Big O, Disney Sports, Raise The Flagg, Montana, Aspiration, Rick Brunson, Seattle Supersonics, Aaliyah Boston, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The OpenRun With Will Strickland! Don’t Get Beat Off The Dribble! Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 227 – Outta Town Shooters Despite the adage that in order to get a job done right, you gotta do it yourself, sometimes in Life, you may be required to count on outsourcing talent to complete a mission.With the NBA’s first wave of training camps and media days upon us, outside of lingering questions about the future of the hashtag #HeWhoShantBeNamed, random “expert lists” judging the best players in The Association and the new All-Star Game format, the query at the forefront of inquisition will be The Kawhi Protocols in Clipperland.Someone contracted an outside squad to do an inside gig.It looks like it’s about to be messy for several parties involved…We’re on it.The women of the WNBA are in awards season and in the midst of their final four, with semifinals matchups that could upset the apple cart even further, as the 2024 champs have been sent packing for #tackleBoxSZN.What team opening on the road has the best chance to flip the script and control their own narrative in these playoffs?We got that, too.You know the drill.Move Accordingly.Do So With Minimal Caution.News.Views.Truths.References Made: StudBudz, Mad Max (No Thunderdome), Athletes Unlimited, Pistol Pete, War Eagle, Manitoba, Tulane University, Jack Molinas, BNA Airport, Miika Muurinen, Sheryl Swoopes, Nashville Summit, Timothy Elpadaro Thedford, “Knoxvul”, Touring The AFC South, Kelsey Mitchell, ClarksVegas, Buc-ees,Victor Sweet, Toronto Maple Leafs, Ballhalla, loud packs, Moolah Kicks, breakfast cereal mascots, Rocky Top, Calgary Stampeders, Uncle Dennis, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Do What’s Popular With The Population!Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

⁠The Open Run With Will Strickland⁠Episode 226 – Ordered Steps“It Was Written”… or so it says.What is the difference between Fate and Destiny?Is there any?As the 80th campaign of the National Basketball Association is a scant few days away, we explore the stumbling blocks and stepping stones lain before us as a team in the Pacific Northwest changes ownerships and fans are nervous about their tomorrows, unique storylines abound with the start of the WNBA’s “Second Season”, a EuroBasket win for a country led by a player who may have just cemented his Hall of Fame credentials and Pablo Torre’s investigative rock turning on the Clippers.Walk with us.News.Views.Truths.References Made: Dirk Werner Nowitzki, Abu Dhabi, The Finnisher, the varying weight of bronze medals, 76er summer hoops mixtapes, gangsta mimes, Carne Contaminado, Back To The Future, Clay Bennett, empathy, Terence “Bud” Crawford, thoughts and prayers, Public Enemy, YouTubers, Spida shade, Panda Express, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Don’t Get Beat Off The Dribble!Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 225 – Get The Day BackNo matter when you are reading this, you’ll never have that exact time ever again.What do you do with that knowledge?Inevitability… As the sand in the hourglass waits for no one, and yet somehow, we often wish it would stand still, the WNBA playoffs loom large as does a potential lockout for the ladies.The 80th campaign of the National Basketball Association is on the horizon and an icon of the game may soon take his leave from the fine hardwood courts as well.Knowing when to go may be more difficult than actually going.Facts don’t have Feelings… Only Realizers and Deniers.Decide which you are and then embrace the moments.They don’t last forever…News.Views.Truths.References Made: Cocaine Circus, RIP Tupac, 9/11, Willis Reed, horror flicks, 3-6 Latvia, moonwalking, The Artist Formerly Known As Malik Abdul-Aziz, deviated septum, Larsa Pippen, acronyms, Mexican Independence Day, LaFonda, #mapleGxNG, Minori Fukushi, The African Resistance Monument, Curious Mike, Moet Chandon, Mebounds, John Lennon, non-disclosure agreement, Gentlemen’s Glaze, St. Cecilia’s Summer League, Uncle Dennis, the Redeem Team, matzah, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Do What’s Popular With The Population! Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 224 – BBall Bong BongOn the last episode before our #PartsWellKnown Tour across Canada for The World’s Most Unique Basketball Tournament, Wall $t. summons the wonder twin powers of Los Hermanos Del Baloncesto by calling upon El Jefe Supremo of FC21 All World, Friend Of The Program and cultural renaissance man, Bobbito Garcia.The guys do a deep dive on Bob’s latest project, a memoir called “Bobbito’s Book Of BBall Bong Bong”, and share why the growth of the only application of 1v5 basketball on the planet means so much to them and so many more.Super Producer and #1 Dallas Mavericks fan Ryan Antonio Henry assists in talking the brave new world ahead for The Association in the post-draft aftermath of free agency, announce All Star starters and other exciting developments in The WNBA and exonerate Ace Bailey for what many feel was a failed attempt to have control over a career barely started.News.Views.Truths.References Made: Bone Collector, Pittsburgh Pirates, Forrest Gump, The Maine Event, W.A.R.P.ed, Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, slave auctions, Meghan McPeak, Entertainers Basketball Classic, Azzi Fudd, 3d Bass, @demi_sosa, Seattle, John Carlos, k1x sneakers, Adrian Bartos, Steele Hyundai, Thor, well-seasoned, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Do What’s Popular With The Population!Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 223 – Engagement FarmingWe all join things to fit in… belong.It could be the band, chess team, the military or a book club, but we join to be a part of something greater than ourselves. This week, a new champion will be crowned in The Association, a basketball team rooted in teamwork making the dream work.There will also be 59 young men, looking to be chosen to fulfill their dreams of belonging to a brotherhood that lasts for life.It won’t be a drive-by, empty calorie, foul merchant activation for those who find their validation in The Attention Economy.It will be so much more… It will mean much more as well.Soul Food.Never Fast Food.News.Views.Truths.References Made: Seattle Supersonics, 90s nostalgia, Sophie Cunningham, The Wire, parlays, Mark William Calaway, integer, coach emeritus, Michelob Light, Cornbread Maxwell, Cigar Aficionado, RIP Ananda Lewis, Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game, H-Town, Moet Nebuchadnezzar, Sal’s Pizzeria, rapper retirement, journalism, Mebounds, RIP David Greenwood, The Attention Economy, kerfuffles, hoops nepotism, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Don’t Get Beat Off The Dribble!Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 222 – Faded PicturesLiving in the past can be tough. Nothing ever changes.Not accepting the natural evolution of things can be even tougher.We’re here to ease the transition toward acceptance, revolution… or both.Wall $t. calls on former St. Bonaventure forward, 2x Nike Battlegrounds Toronto winner and head honcho of King Nation youth basketball club Vidal Massiah to run the wings with him on everything from the NBA Finals, Canadians battling forthe crown and what it means to his program and the country to The World’s Most Unique Basketball Tournament, family, love, life, loss and the ever-changing landscape of the NCAA and NIL.News.Views.Truths.References Made: Jeux De La Rue, Nike Battlegrounds, Zach Edey, Detroit Shock, K-Mac, treaties, Luol Deng, TMZ, Candace Parker, well-seasoned, Baby Campbell, regret, New Balance, RIP Big Apple, Independence Day, Cooper Flagg, All My Relations, Artesticulation, NBA TV Canada, Leon Rose, The Wizard Of Oz,Justin Beiber, BARS!, Pascal Siakam, and more, all on thepodcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Do What’s Popular With The Population!Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 221 – Proof Of Concept1,307 total games played in the 2024-2025 campaign, but… will we see seven more?The roads the Western Conference champion Oklahoma City Thunder and the Eastern Conference-conquering Indiana Pacers took to get here matter little at this point.The time is now and both teams are ready to face the challenge ahead in their quest for ultimate glory, capturing the Larry O’Brien Trophy.Wall St. calls on OKC beat writer Brandon Rahbar from The Daily Thunder to talk the past, present and future on the prairie.From SGA, MVP and Sam Presti to matchups, x-factors and the fickle mistress that is chemistry, the guys get you prepped for the NBA Finals like few others can!News.Views.Truths.References Made: The Commissioner’s Cup, Hollow Da Don, sadism, The Haliban, LBI, Spencer Haywood, game plan discipline, Young Abe Lincoln, Gatewood Archer Pine Band, Allie Quigley, The Death Lineup, Honourary Canadianism, Ted Lasso, Dallas Mavericks, retirement, Delly, Montreal Nord, Satou Sabally, The Disease Of More, Robert Griffin III, The Celly, University of Kentucky, black church socks, #PartsUnknownTour2025, Tim Horton’s, Teamwork Makes The Dream Work, Ellison High School, Young BOAT, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Don’t Get Beat Off The Dribble!Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 220 – Belts In MotionThe end of May brings reminiscence for several things past, be it a long lost loved one, the real origin story of MemorialDay, and why one NBA conference finals series is more compelling than the other, despite an alleged lack of star power.Wall $t. does the knowledge on this curiosity as well as dueling superagents supporting their clients and coming up Klutch, FC21CA’s 6 weeks away from touching earth in the T-Dot, Week 2 of the WNBA season, Caitlin Clark’s injury’s economic impact, Angel Reese and The Danger Of The Single Story.News.Views.Truths.References Made: The Dorture Chamber, ultra-processed foods, Pat McAfee, tithing heavily, Liz Kittley, Rolex, Dallas Wings, Robert Lee Pettit, DMV, Nickeil Alexander Walker, racism, Phee’nds, Unrivaled, Chennedy Carter, freedom, Grenada, The United Mexican States, Tom Hagen, weight loss, The Haliban, lemonbootiness, Hamilton Ontario, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Don’t Get Beat Off The Dribble!Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 219 - Hardwood Even though we’re about a month away from Father’s Day, the relationship between Black fathers and sons can be simple and direct… complex and complicated or a number of other variables in between.That unique dynamic is explored, as Wall St. goes on the road to discovering Black male redemption with Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Hubert Davis.The two break down the matchups and ex-factors for each of the NBA’s final four teams as the conference finals begin, run the court on WNBA opening weekend overreactions, include our first Rookie Watch and Power 5 of season 29 and plot a 25th anniversary screening of his first cinematic offering during FC21CA’s film fest, #HoopersHoop.News.Views.Truths.References Made: Black Ice, Rob Lowe, Big3, Diana Taurasi, Hot Docs, Magic & Bird, ‘ism, RGIII, Giants Of Africa, Jay-Z, Notre Dame, Meghan McPeak, el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, Harlem Globetrotters, Ashton James, gentrification, Mirin Fader, Delta Airlines, Kevin Hart, masculinity, Arike Ogunbowale, The Middle Third, JJ Barea, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Avon RandolphBarksdale, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball andLife are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Do What’s Popular With The Population!Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 218 - Uptempo What is The World’s Most Expensive Commodity?In the NBA, it’s spent in 48 minute blocks… Occasionally, when the game gets restless, it generally requires at least 5 more.Of the eight teams left to battle for professional basketball’s greatest prize, some are on the verge of exhausting their supply... others replenish theirs after every win.And while The Association’s best battle for the crown, the WNBA kicks off its 29th campaign with a momentum the league has not seen since it began, all in in the face of one of the most important labour decisions in women’s professionalsports history.Somewhere in the midst of all of this goodness happening in This Thing Of Ours is a celebration, beginning with the launch of The World’s Most Unique Basketball Tournament, FC21CA.It's Time!Don’t Delay.Move Accordingly.Do So With Minimal Caution… because that commodity mentioned earlier in the tale…It’s finite. News.Views.Truths.References Made: Ms. Brandy, Birmingham Brother Rice, usage rate, Juicy Marbles, “Pierre”, gaming vs gambling, Christopher George Latore Wallace, United Nations, Sabrina Ionescu, First Take, “LaShaniquia”, OutKast, Timberlands, Sonia Cintron, intersectionality, El Jefe, Malia Obama, Athletes Unlimited, banoodles, #tackleBoxSZN, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Don’t Get Beat Off The Dribble! Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1  

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 217 – Engine Light The Elite Eight.30 started the journey where only one with reign supreme.Wall $t. calls on frequent collaborator and super podcast producer Ryan Antonio Henry to get on the road to riches and NBA diamond rings, where real hoopers do real things to wrap up all first round exits, offer report cards, preview the conference semis, doing some early destination station projections for a couple of all-timers, anticipate an exciting WNBA season and show love to the winningest coach in league history!There is no substitution for greatness… word to Tom Thibodeaux. News.Views.Truths.References Made: Frank Sinatra, The Help Center, Skylar Diggins, nickel slots, Tommy Carcetti, WrassleMania, Chevano, WebMD, Larry Joe Bird, Gentlemen’s Sweep, Jey Uso, Intuit Dome, “Robins”, Montreal, Lil’ General shade, John Halliburton, The Gulag, Jalen Suggs, Randy Orton, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland! Do What’s Popular With The Population! Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1