Nothing like a russillo state of the union address

"If you're so civilized, what are your exports?" Amazing line.

"Why does he have Umbros on? Does he even play?" 😂

Jimmer is one of the most brutally honest self critiquing athletes I’ve ever heard . This dude is so humble and so honest about his limits as a player and willing to acknowledge things I think people would be to afraid to say out loud in house by themselves, he’s saying it for everyone to hear and is completely at peace with his contributions to the sport and his limitations physically that held him back from being consistently on a nba roster year after year . Jimmer you are without a doubt one the best college basketball players I’ve ever seen in my life bud ! I’m glad you found this outlet to keep playing a sport that you mean as much too as it does to you for a lot of people . Good luck on the Olympics ! I’ll be tuning in bud !

Russillo solo-podding is elite. Wish he'd do that more and less interviews

This why I listen to Ryen. He is what is right with sports podcasting.

I own a Jimmer kings jersey. I’m a wolves fan. Dude was my GOAT when I was in early high school

It's also worth pointing out that "popularity" can be defined along varying degrees; there's no one single overarching metric for measuring it. Local popularity isn't just a small-scale reflection of nation popularity. The media lens warps the view of popularity to a significant degree, but also contributes the most to it. Baseball is the best example of this. So much has been made of baseball "dying", but it's death has only been experienced as a national media product. Local popularity of baseball is still often times much stronger than a city's corresponding NBA team (see the Cubs vs Bulls, Astros vs Rockets, Braves vs Hawks). However, as a national product, meaning how likely the sport is to garner views through the content machine, the NBA is much stronger. There's a distinct national NBA fandom, where narratives like MVP races, legacy talk, player rankings etc are participated in regardless of a fan's team allegiance. There are plenty of "teamless" NBA fans, who care about rooting for specific players and narratives. As a Seattle fan, I'm kinda one of them. Comparatively, there's not nearly as much of that in baseball. Is it because it's an inferior product? No. It's because there are so many games and so many narratives and storylines to fill the entire season of just the team a fan roots for that there's often little appetite for nationally-focused content. I'm someone who cares about MLB, but most of my fellow Mariner fans genuinely don't know anyone outside of the Mariner circle. Most Mariner fans wouldn't know who Hunter Greene is, while most Reds fans wouldn't know who Logan Gilbert is. That's because those fans only really need to care about who is on their team, and each individual team has enough players and narratives to fulfill that content cycle. As such, we have two different degrees from which one can measure popularity. The NBA and NFL are both well suited to the national content cycle, which means they get most of the air time on national media outlets, which in turn increases their visibility. Baseball can have equally strong local fandoms, but it's been eclipsed as a topic for the national content cycle. That means their visibility nationally is buried, despite remaining rather strong on the local level. It can simultaneously be true that many baseball teams are more popular than counterparts from other sports, but those sports leagues are more popular than MLB.

Ryen, the reason people ask you if you still watch the nba is because the product has become way worse in the last 10 years, and they want you to see that. I don't hate the NBA but Adam Silver has allowed the league to not care about the regular season. The style of 90% of nba teams is pick and roll with center while other 3 guys stand at the 3 point line. It is not very interesting to watch. Dunks in traffic never happen anymore. Mid range shots are rare. Post game is extinct. All of that makes for a worse product to watch. I watched this years playoffs. I'm a Celtics fan, and the Mavs would be my 2nd fav team. I thought I would love the finals. I was underwealmed. I just don't care about the sport the way I used to. If the NBA still had variety with teams and how they play, I might go back.

Clicked on the video just because of the plus jimmer Fredette

At 14:20 😂 “Oh you’re still skiing in New Hampshire…that’s cute”

16:49 100% I bet that was Cowherd 😂

that soccer take on espn 17 years ago was 100 percent colin cowherd😂😂

Jimmer college basketball legend.

Basketball needs dramatic off the court storylines, legacies on the line, and massive star power to draw big tv numbers. People just would rather watch the highlights than a full game on TV it seems with the NBA.

Top 5 podcast

That exports line was hilarious!

Jimmer!!!!! My dad taught at BYU growing up and I never missed a home bball game with Jimmer playing!!!

Great to see this. I am all in.

Some all-time lines today. Awesome show

That shirt is insane, the collar is trying to stay under the 2nd apron lol

bro why is jimmer more excited to talk to russillo than russillo is to talk to him😭 he seems like a great dude

I am so glad he mention the MJ vs Lebron is over kill.

Jimmer is mad baked lol

Good shirt color. I have one too and I think it is pretty excellent.

That Meddy vs Sinner match today at Wimbledon was the greatest match of the year.

Ryen the type of dude you want to be next to in the DMV line when the name Rob Dibble is dropped by a passer by....Friend #2 sounds like a real drag, hypertension in your 30s is real...This show has become a staple, cheers

O they got jimmer in these olympics.. guess im watching 3x3 now 😂

Listening now, when you said the “ascetically pleasing players who actually aren’t efficient” i said out loud, “like Iverson.” I’m in the Iverson won’t age well camp. He was fun to watch, but, he would get killed on Social Media if he played today.

Part of the reason that the NFL has the success the NBA doesn’t is that the NFL doesn’t just focus on the six to eight biggest markets. The most popular team in the league right now is in a flyover state

The nba doesn’t do a good job of presenting its history. Too many media members associated with the league shit on the 50’s to 90’s where the NFL aggressively does the opposite, same with Baseball. I would also say NBA coverage is unserious and way too casual, more analytical breakdowns are needed of basketball and less of whatever Stephen A does.

I think it's funny that the perception of basketball VS American Football is that American Football is the pride of America when basketball is by far the export that's had the most international impact. Like I actually like the NFL and college Football but I've never once thought about actually playing it

"Rich families: 'We ski in New Hampshire.'" Ryen: "Cute!"

football is once a week and easy to follow and has the tailgating element that makes it so much fun. It's become a sport you can watch with the whole family being entertained and idk if any other sport has that.

Simple: less games means more hype and better distributed viewership. No one has time to care about one game out of 82 or 162.

I feel Sacramento will overperform this year. I would love to hear a breakdown of what you think Sacramento will do. Predictions matter interested in your thoughts.

The tone is still very disparaging about soccer in the US. As an American I won’t listen to other Americans discuss the beautiful game unless they genuinely know what they are talking about. I know plenty of ppl abroad and at home that don’t need to wait for the rest of the USA to wake up and make their own silly conclusions. Side note the MLS will not be as big as the WNBA in 10 years

European football has grown massively in the usa. Its not just usa national team that has an influence on viewership. Wc 2026 should help influence the next gen of american footballers

NBA discourse is colored a bit, in my experience/media consumption, by a weird phenomena where folks who CLAIM that they lived and died with the nba and love basketball more than anything else. But they’ll also tell you that the games are terrible, that no one tries, that nothing happens until the finals, WHILE also claiming that that’s why they haven’t watched/followed the game in like 8yrs. Like i feel like a lotta folks that might’ve just grown away from following the game try to put it on everyone else’s plate like it matters. Like i have a coworker who always complain about the state of the league but they also never can talk to me about the game the night before cuz they never catch it lol. Just interesting to me

It's because some sports have major stakes in their games than other sports. Out of 82 regular season games, the NBA can generate interest in less than 5% of them per team, the baseball situation is even worse because the game is boring and too neurotical to follow for casuals, while in Football every single game has stakes even just because of the high risk of injuries that can derail a team entire trajectory. Basketball has become a niche sport for geeks, my prediction is that Soccer will easily blow them out of the water since the MLS format is far superior as it is the appeal over immigrants

what going on with that oven bro?

If you listen to Ryan Russillo regularly, there is a 99% chance that you like RDR2

I always love the mental gymnastics of baseball fan trying to explain why baseball isn’t as popular as other sports. Not enough advertising, new generations can’t focus on a slow game etc…

1:08:22 shit bro was that me?

McDavid got DESTROYED for winning the Conn Smythe despite his record setting performance because his team lost in the Finals. (Let me remind you that hockey is a weak link sport while basketball is a strong link sport, so obviously that's nowhere near as uncommon, or odd in the NHL as in the NBA.) You didn't hear about it because, as you said, you aren't in it. He doesn't get destroyed at all more in the NBA vs the NHL; you just hear about it if it's in the NBA because you're an NBA guy. I remember very clearly the shit that Ovechkin, clearly the best goal scorer of all-time, got for the Capitals' playoff woes despite Ovie leading all active players in playoff PPG; people are VERY stupid. That's not just a basketball thing. (Or football. Or baseball.)

Tour de France , real men in tights going 55mph down a mountain, a few people care.

11:33, Iverson and Kobe both still peaked at top 5 players in the NBA, it's just casual fans like the high PPG numbers and in Kobe's case his defense was overrated.

U cant be serious with saying the nba has never been more political, in the bubble players didnt even have names on their jerseys, they had generic sayings most humans know.

The guy who always craps on the NBA and soccer seem to be the same guy. Weird flex I agree. The best is the if (insert NFL or NBA players name) played soccer we'd dominate the world guy.

Niche sportd are great. When too many people like somerthing it usually turns into a shitty product because it gets hyper commercialized. Sports are no different, I think the most popular sports in 100 years wont be soccer or American football because they are over commercialized.

NFL numbers reflect dads bogarting the TV as they putter around. It is wildly overestimated how many people actually watch the games.

7:56 okay comrade Ryen, how Marxist of you

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What Russillo often fails to understand is the difference between a true criticism/conclusion of a sport vs attempting to make jokes at the expense of others. It is very disheartening when Russillo often has "low key respect" for being a shitting person or doesn't know the line between being funny and being mean. Grow up you're almost 50 dude...

Jimmer looks old for 35

I think there are several things happening at once that affect sports. Baseball was first love, but for whatever reason I stopped following it when I went to college. I've always been a casual NBA fan. The pandering bubble jerseys made me even more casual. Football (college and pro) are what I really pay attention to, but I'm growing increasingly numb to them because of the changes.

I am a football guy, and yes I do get a hard-on when I hear the nba ratings are down

Soccer might have the most negativity surrounding it of any sport that has ever existed lol

I think NFL is pretty boring, but people just leave it on in the background. The rules have softened so much that you can’t hate on soccer, it’s equally pussy now. If a QB can’t stay healthy now, it’s just poor genetics and physique. Baseball has no drawing power. Basketball most casuals won’t watch entire games, but will see highlights on reels and shorts and has the biggest influence on culture. NBA makes a new king every postseason that moves merch and builds a brand, Ant Edwards this year. Hockey is cool, but only need to follow the playoffs. NFL is king in the same way old people leave Fox News on all day.

Walk ahead guy is being passive aggressive. He doesn't like his girlfriend. Maybe he's trying to force her to break up with him because he's too weak to do it himself.

Cuban wants to run for prez. Funny he sold his team to the biggest republican donar…

Friend rankings ? How douchie and arrogant

NFL is number 1 right now because it’s the best TV sport. Baseball isn’t a good tv sport and that’s why it dropped so far below the NFL. It’s nothing to do with the actual play of the sport IMO.

My hot take has always been that basketball, football, and baseball are all equally popular (in America) and sometimes, certain leagues are better at marketing or luck into advantageous marketing situations. Like MLB lucked into having Ohtani, NBA fucked themselves over by not requiring players to play in college for 3 years, NFL realized that making QBs the only position that matters is smart since QBs can't team up together. But the NBA is always one or two players away from being the top league in America, and I think Edwards is one of those players. Wouldn't shock me if Cooper Flagg is other (race relations is powerful, and it sells in boxing and basketball). If the World Series this year is Dodgers vs Yankees, I hope MLB plays some games on Sunday. I think those two teams matching up will outrate Sunday Night Football and turn the National Football League into the Niche Football League.

The WNBA "hype" is entirely manufactured. I can't be the only one who has noticed ESPN/Yahoo pumping out 4-5 WNBA stories daily lately. They're trying to strike while the iron is hot and cash in on all the Angel Reese/Caitlyn Clark drama. That's smart but untenable long term. This is the zenith of WNBA wherewithal within the cultural zeitgeist. Furthermore, it's still set to lose a record $50M this season despite the manufactured attention.

WNBA 😂

Lots of cope in here from NBA fans, as it relates to the NFL and the superior product they put out. The NFL has crushed the NBA(and every other pro sport, outside of soccer) for 5-6 decades now, and the gap is wider now than ever. Not gonna change, EVER. Just let it go.

I poked Jimmer's girlfriend.. look it up😅

dang russillo hates jimmer cringe questions. hey why do you suck? how hard was failing?

Honestly soccer does suck though