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The Open Run With Will StricklandMagnified AmbitionThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 157 – Magnified AmbitionThe first episode of #BlackHistoryEryday puts a lens on wants, needs and desires.
The great post-modern contemporary literary giant Tariq Luqmaan Trotter once exclaimed that he is a walking affirmation that imagination and focus and patience gets you closer to your aspirations.
Wall $t connects the dots with Fieldhouse Files and Pacers beat writer Scott Agness to talk good times, fun hoops and dreams in Indianapolis with Tyrese Haliburton, former Toronto Raptor Pascal Siakam, head coach Rick Carlisle and Haitian-Canadian
Bennedict Mathurin.
From the Hali’s star...2024-02-071h 43
The Open Run With Will StricklandKobeThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 156 – Kobe The late, great Kobe Bean Bryant passed away on January 26, 2020.
A lifetime multitude of accolades and superlatives attached to his name, but being a #GirlDad seemed to be a big part of the joy and focus in the new chapters Kobe began writing post-retirement… Then he, his daughter Gigi and 7 others perished tragically.
Bryant’s legacy lives in his contributions to the game, his kicks and worldwide respect.
And, in one of the most proficient offensive seasons in the
Association’s histor...2024-01-3144 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Impermanence Of All Living ThingsThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 155 – The Impermanence Of All Living Things Life Is Fleeting.
What we do with whatever time we have on this planet largely depends upon us… our desire to achieve; to egotistically leave the world in a better place than it was before we washed up on these shores.In the meantime in between time, Wall $t. and special guest Dexter Henry, New York Post | SNY, WFAN and CBS Sports Radio anchor, do deep dives into the Tri-State hoops scene, from the NBA’s Knicks and Nets to the WNBA’s Liberty...2024-01-251h 28
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Man In The ArenaThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 154 – The Man In The Arena What does it take to give your life in service of others?
The late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man who lived his purpose and Wall $t. celebrates his life and legacy, what it means to The Association with The Sporting News’ NBA Content Producer Gilbert McGregor.
In addition, the guys run the give and go on everything from JuJu Watkins, Caitlin Clark, the WNBA’s new schedule and the overall excitement around women’s hoops to NBA voting criterion, Clippers possibly...2024-01-172h 09
The Open Run With Will Strickland1 Of 1The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 153 – 1 Of 1
Embarking on a new chapter in a new year, Wall $t. takes a moment or two for reflection on what we left behind, what is and what lays ahead for basketball and Life, speaking on everything from the returns of Temetrius Jamel and Draymond Jamal,
the phenomenon that is Caitlin Clark and the record-setting Detroit Pistons to hoops dominance in Columbia, South Carolina, historic numbers being put up in the Association, early All Star Game voting. A quarter century of seasoning and how the path to...2024-01-1042 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Art Of Official IntelligenceThe Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 152 – The Art Of Official Intelligence
Will Machines ever replace Man?
Seems highly unlikely, but… in the meantime, let Wall $t. help close out your 2023 by flexing his critical thinking muscles on the News, Views and Truths on the NBA and beyond with Alan Shane Lewis, comedian extraordinaire, co-host of CBC’s Great Canadian Baking Show and former co-pilot of b-ball podcast Below The Hardwood.
The Storytellin’ Hoops Magellan and THE Alan Shane Lewis finally wrap up the In-Season Tournament, dispel the cornball casual’s mythology...2023-12-201h 52
The Open Run With Will StricklandFountain Or DrainThe Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 151 – Fountain Or Drain
The holiday season generally brings on good feelings, even in the midst of troubles domestically and internationally.
But we won’t allow anyone or anything to steal our joy as Wall $t. spreads love with your favourite podcasters' favourite
podcasters, Rod and Karen Morrow of The Black Guy
Who Tips, to chat why winning the NBA’s In-Season Tournament sets a tone for more than just competitive play early in the year, if the Warriors can overcome their woes, the Hornets future with L...2023-12-132h 02
The Open Run With Will StricklandFanalyticsThe Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 150 – Fanalytics
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who...2023-12-061h 55
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Beginnings Of ThingsThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 149 – The Beginnings Of Things
“It’s Not How You Start… It’s How You Finish!”
True, indeed…
But how does it start… and why?
Wall $t. explores what launches certain things, good and bad, whilst also running the check-in on the best college freshmen in the game, a hoops lifer in Philly, big trouble in LA, the Suns heating up, Chet being the best bet for NBA Rookie Of The Year right now, who is primed to make a big personnel move in the next two weeks...2023-11-2934 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandIntellectual Self-DefenseThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 148 – Intellectual Self-Defense
Social media can have you out in these rough interweb streets mixing mitts, tweets, likes and digital shade with entities
waaaaay below your weight class.
How do you remedy this phenomenon and stay on task while still standing on your biness?
Let’s us learn you!
Wall $t. goes in on the sanctity of logic via the legend of Pay Thanksgiving, protecting your energy, Booty vs Draymond, Poole Party been over before it started in DC, Chet vs Wemby 1 not necessarily being a cl...2023-11-2743 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandPassion x PurposeThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 147 – Passion x Purpose
What is it that you truly love?
Not necessary talking “default” or “conditioned” love, like for family; talking that thing in a lifespan that defines your existence.
Did you choose it?
Or did it choose you?
Well… as we looking to grasp the meaning of it all, Wall $t. waxes poetic on empty calorie efforts, Adam Silver’s USA vs World All Star Game flawed fantasies, word to Roy Bobby Rana, , excitement around college hoops… on the women’s side, Wemby vs Booty Gob...2023-11-1538 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandHip Hop MoralsThe Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 146 – Hip Hop Morals
In continuing our year-long celebration of a half century of hop hop culture, Wall $t. checks the rhime on This Thing Of Ours called Basketball with Handsome Boy Modeling School graduate, SKIMS
quality control agent and Raptors 905 color commentator Warren Ward!
Ok, so no cap, two of those things Warren doesn’t rep… but maybe he should!
The gents run the give & go on the week that was in The Association:
Tyrese Maxey got the keys to the car and the squad...2023-11-081h 23
The Open Run With Will StricklandFear Of The QuietThe Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 145 – Fear Of The Quiet
It All Hallow’s Eve!
Don’t get scurred!
Wall St. unmasks the ’23-’24 campaign and wraps up Week 1 of the new season with milestones, notes one guy continues to cosplay a former NBA superstar, notices that a Flagg gets planted in Durham for at least a season, contemplates the college basketball preseason All-America list as mix of G-Leaguers and generational WNBA talents, opines on that time when O’Shea Jackson didn’t have a good day and reached out to The Pork Chop
Squad...2023-11-0148 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandLucky MeThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 144 – Lucky Me
Rabbit’s feet, rosary beads, boxes of sugary cereal with green clovers and blue diamonds aside, luck is what we make it by being ready for the moment.
And the moment reveals itself when Wall $t. enlists four-time Full Court 21 All World champion Jesse Washington, senior writer at ESPN’s Andscape and co-author of a New York Times Best Seller, Lucky Me, the memoir of Klutch Sports’ Rich Paul, to make it all make sense.
The incredible two man team lament how dishing the dirt on the Kans...2023-10-251h 17
The Open Run With Will StricklandColes Notes, Part IIThe Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 143 – Coles Notes
The Saga Continues with Wall $t. and podcast veteran free agent and former TSN 1050 Radio's #1On1 With Will x Duane superproducer Ryan Antonio Henry trading bars on everything from The 3d Annual #DoWork Preseason Awards, why the WNBA Finals matchup this year is the greatest in league history, and a sterling breakdown of The NBA's Western Conference, which will yield the league's MVP and world champion according to one of the guys!
We’re getting close to that special time of year: the start of a new seas...2023-10-201h 18
The Open Run With Will StricklandColes Notes, Part IThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 142 – Coles Notes
Wall $t. enlists the homey, the compadre, the amigo, the comrade, podcast veteran free agent Ryan Antonio Henry to run the court and win all day with bars on The 3d Annual #DoWork Preseason Awards, WNBA Finals, GM Survey, ESPN’s Top 100 and
the mental health of Temetrius Jamel Morant and Benjamin David Simmons, amongst other things.
We’re getting close to that special time of year: the start of a new season for the National Basketball Association.REFERENCES MADE:
Sam Hinkie, Lisfranc fracture, Dion Waiters...2023-10-181h 10
The Open Run With Will StricklandExpensive BackpackThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 141 – Expensive Backpack
With the 78th campaign of the National Basketball Association
launching in two weeks, the excitement is only starting to build!
We are blessed with arguably the greatest WNBA Finals matchup ever, plans for expansions in both leagues, generational talents who will make the future now, preseason tilts that feel like playoffs games, off the chart competitive levels with all of the player movement as most everyone, including the reigning and
defending champions, have something to prove, the most costly baggage of all to carry and the so-called merit of...2023-10-1142 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Quiet Part Out LoudThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 140 – The Quiet Part Out Loud
Ever been on the outside of an inside joke?
Perhaps the Miami Heat know now, but that as well as a million other questions with be asked and answered as NBA Media Day marks the official opening of training camp for the 78th campaign of the Association.
With fresh fits and fashion now such a huge part of the league’s lifestyle, Wall $t brings in the heavy artillery with Obsessive Sneaker Disorder don Sean Williams of SOLEcial Studies CommUNITY Academy in Brooklyn to kick...2023-10-041h 14
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Sins Of SaintsThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 139 – The Sins Of Saints“
I Ain’t Judgin’… And You Ain’t On Trial!”
--Some Dude Whose Name Rhymes With “Will Strickland”
Judgement.
We all do it in some shape, form or fashion… but why?
Be certain there are a multitude of reasons and we could spend lots of time in therapy exploring them, but in the meantime, Wall $t. calls on his Hermano Del Baloncesto, Bobbito “Kool Bob Love” Garcia, to build on Bob's new basketball gear collab, his #HipHop50 lens, why our college radio experi...2023-09-271h 10
The Open Run With Will StricklandLowercase DevastationThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 138 – Lowercase Devastation
Has the advent of the 24-hour, 7-day-a-week news cycle helped to desensitize us all to the goings on in the world?
Once you see it enough on these rough interweb streets, do we become numb to the real issues?
Faux outrage has a born-on date as society seems to move on to the next tragedy, real or imagined, but what of the good things in Life?
How do we properly embrace and recognize them?Wall $t. shines light on the differences, whether we’re t...2023-09-2041 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandCash x PrizesThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 137 – Cash x Prizes
For what do we work?
To pay bills & die?
Fame & fortune?
Security & comfort?
Ego?
Whatever we do on the road to riches & diamond rings, we should know that real ones do real things!
This week, Wall $t. finds out about the new face of German basketball, who the real M’VP of the WNBA is unless you just missed the hint, why Raptors fans should be happy with a transition, explain what exactly in the Hell...2023-09-1349 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe PhenomThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 136 – The Phenom
Phenom [ fee-nom, fi-nom ]
noun Slang.
A phenomenon, especially a young prodigy: a twelve-year-old tennis
phenom.
Or baseball… or basketball, like our special guest!
As summer slowly winds down, Wall $t. calls on Former 1988 Canadian Men’s Senior National Team Member, Olympian, referee, coach and NBA analyst for TSN 690 – Montreal Dwight Walton to talk “The Win” that propelled this edition of Team Canada toward the Paris 2024 Ganes, what it means for the country, his sartorial splendor, being a Mama’s Boy and his all-time Canadian National Team...2023-09-061h 24
The Open Run With Will StricklandHoopers HoopThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 135 – Hoopers HoopYeah…
We took a summer vacation… just to go to work all across Canada & The
United States.
But we back outside, y’all & we wanna let you know what we did this summer!
Salute to Wall $t’s special guests who are along for this journey: #MapleGang #FiF Joey “King Handles” Courtney “CDiddy” Donaldson & Heather “Jusst.H” Alonzo of Ball Her Way & superproducer Ryan Antonio Henry as we break down different types of rings, FIBA World Cup Canadian record breakers, the WNBA down the home stretch, NBA schedules & key op...2023-08-301h 47
The Open Run With Will StricklandAcknowledge UsThe Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 134 – Acknowledge UsEmbarking on a new journey can be exciting and unnerving, whether
you’re beginning one of the most anticipated and critically analyzed careers in professional basketball history, becoming the sixth rookie in your league’s annuls to start an All Star Game or launching another summer madness run of The World’s Most Unique Basketball Tournament.
Wall $t. recognizes the real on these topics and more as Full Court 21 Canada initiates an ambitious Indigenous sneaker art activation in homage to the people on whose soil we toil, explores...2023-07-101h 04
The Open Run With Will StricklandScreenage LoveThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 133 – Screenage LoveAs time and technology wait for no man, woman or child, and neither do the News, Views and Truths of the NBA and beyond.
Wall $t. runs the digital pick and roll with Juevol Myles, former international pro hooper, current high school basketball coach and owner of 5 Star Men’s League
in Toronto as they talk the NBA Draft and which class was the best of all time, the whole-assed movie that is Temetrius Jamel Morant and the Association’s off-season
leading up and through the free agent morato...2023-06-211h 15
The Open Run With Will StricklandSon Of The CityThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 132 – Son Of The City
What do Zion Lateef Williamson, Temetrius Jamel Morant and Nikola J’Mayne Jokic have in common, outside of being men who play a game for lots and lots of
money?In one way or another, they are sons of their cities, be it their hometowns or adopted, current environs.
Fame and infamy oddly favour each other and it is a dynamic that exists for the players identified as well as Wall $t. and his special guest, the legendary music industry vet and now-author of his narr...2023-06-141h 19
The Open Run With Will StricklandVertically GiftedThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 131 – Vertically Gifted
How do NBA Finals previews look after two games?
Do the so-called professional prognosticators who missed the mark with their “bold predictions” fall back on some teleprompter shit and now start watching
their words?
Do the fans sit back, realize why and how both teams made it this fare not to just make it this far and learn to enjoy the moment?
No matter in what category you fall, know that Wall $t. and special guest Mirin Fader, Senior Staff Writer at The Ringer and a New Yo...2023-06-071h 10
The Open Run With Will StricklandAn Honest LiarThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 130 – An Honest Liar
Jumbo Shrimp.
Scripted Reality.
With so many allegedly insightful sports “pundits”, fans and skeptics offering their tepid, baseless predilections as “analysis” on the NBA’s desire to have certain entities face one another in The Finals, Wall $t. helps to separate the Truth from the Prevarication.
Let him learn you!
The CEBL launches their 5th season with a bang (No Mike Breen), the WNBA Power 5 shows up for the first time this season and questions are raised like:
Has Klay Alexander Thompson earned his max exte...2023-05-3140 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandAssholes x ElbowsThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 129 – Assholes x Elbows
As the years between Wall $t.’s Dear Ol’ Dad’s (Bless The Dead) passing and the moment this sentence was typed get further and further apart, so do the
memories of the man.
There is a sadness in that…
Endings can be tough.
But there are many things for which to be grateful from the time spent… to be thankful.
And what looks like the completion of some epic efforts to find new beginnings for one team and another chan...2023-05-2442 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandEnergy ThievesThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 128 – Energy Thieves
In the slightly amended bars of post-modern contemporary literary giant Andre Lauren Benjamin:
“Everybody be like ‘Peace, My Brother!’… Peace this… Peace that…
But when I try to have Peace of Mind, they try to take a Piece of Mine…
So I have to grab My Piece!”
Understanding why some people do their best to extinguish the light certain people bring to the world, for whatever their alleged rationale, can be a
thankless exercise.
But here to help Wall $t. navigate the negative on a life...2023-05-171h 24
The Open Run With Will StricklandI'm Him!The Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 127 – I’m Him!
How do you celebrate always being That Person?
Political correctness aside, Wall $t. can’t be mispronoun’d.
He is who he is and he said what he said!
On the podcast to further the notion is another entrepreneurial spirit with an unquenchable thirst for sneaker culture and This Thing of Ours called Basketball is Danielle Stacy, bawse lady behind BoxOutBrand, driving equality in the game via co-ed hoops and a sense of community.
Him and Her talk the first WNBA game on Canadian soil, th...2023-05-101h 05
The Open Run With Will StricklandEmotional ConvenienceThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 126 – Emotional Convenience
Ever pouted in hopes of getting what you wanted out of a situation?
How’d that work out for you?
Ever subverted your feelings because you thought you’d hurt someone else by sharing them?
Situation and circumstance often dictate our reactions and responses.
Do you know the difference?
Here to help us separate The Truth from The Lie is Chuck Modiano aka Check Modi, justice journalist and sportswriter at Deadspin.
Wall $t. and Chuck fill the lanes on the NBA’s conference semifina...2023-05-031h 16
The Open Run With Will StricklandG'Morning, YesterdayThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 125 – G’Morning, Yester
Mortality, in Life and in basketball, generally doesn’t come with a born-on date.
Immortality finds the greats in critical moments where mere mortals tend to seek shelter.
Wall $t. brings in Team Ontario Under-17 Boys Head Honcho on the bench and found of the Pro Canadian Invitational Kevin Barnes, to talk about the energy it takes to walk that walk to eternal fame.
In addition, the guys get into potential next steps for now-fired former head coach of the Toronto Raptors, Nick Nurse, the Can...2023-04-261h 31
The Open Run With Will StricklandBully Of The Gym ClassThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 124 – Bully Of The Gym Class
When you show up at the court, win all day and take everyone’s lunch money on both ends of the floor, there is a certain level of respect that is earned.16 NBA teams set out after the regular season on the annual quest on the road to riches, ‘chip trophies and diamond rings because real hoopers do real
things!
Whether you got their by the play-in, or a superlative regular season, no one cares!
In the words of that Immortal KneeGrow Poet, Snoop...2023-04-191h 47
The Open Run With Will StricklandGoal DiggerThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 123 – Goal Digger
To Get Something You Never Had, You Have To Do Something You Never Did!
There is a sensation created by achievement that is tough to simulate.
Can’t wish it or conjure it to be so!
You gotta do the work!
And the NBA regular season ends, The #DoWork Awards are on the horizon and the WNBA Draft hints at the start of a new campaign, Wall $t. is blessed with the presence of The Mayor, Amber Batchelor of Ladies Who Hoop, to run the give...2023-04-121h 29
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Art Of DiscernmentThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 122 – The Art Of Discernment
The first three words we generally learn in Life are “Mama” and “Dada” or some variant of each… and “No”.
Is it when we understand how to weaponize that “No” that we’ve mastered the game?
Or is it when we learn to put the “B” in “subtle or the “G” in “lasagna”?
And even if the G ain’t in you, you should tune in to hear Wall $t. pretend he can speak another language as he welcomes world-renowned photographer and
filmmaker Kevin Couliau to enter the centre as they ta...2023-04-051h 32
The Open Run With Will StricklandComfortably NumbThe Open Run
With Will Strickland
Episode 121 – Comfortably Numb
Surreal to think that we’re on the verge of having a former US President arrested, the best regular season finish to a Western Conference playoff spot
in NBA history while further justifying the need for the play-in mechanism, a Cinderella-filled Final Four in the men’s tournament, the possibility of a unique moment in Black history being made in Dallas as well as celebrating the 50th Anniversary of something that was once seen as a fad!
Wall $t. goes bar for bar with The Godfather of Canadi...2023-03-291h 15
The Open Run With Will StricklandLaundry x TaxesThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 120 – Laundry x Taxes
Behind each and every One Shining Moment video is a fan who’d be just as happy and in love with a life of doing laundry and paying taxes.
It bees like that sometimes…
And though the only St. Patrick’s we recognize are James, Tasha, Tariq, Reina and Yasmine, may The Luck of the Irish come your way and come into play during what has already been an incredible March Madness.
Wall $t. runs you through all of the pomp and circumstance with his verys...2023-03-221h 14
The Open Run With Will StricklandOrganic UnicornsThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 119 – Organic Unicorns
What happens when something you conjured in your mind and heart suddenly reveals itself in real Life?
Do you ignore it and treat it as an apparition… some phase of temporary insanity?
Or do you stand in awe and wonder when you realize that, sometimes, dreams do come true?
Wall $t helps you navigate the not-so-make believe world of hoops by exploring some of the most lethal weapons to ever grace a fine hardwood floor in the Association, celebrate the earthdays of a...2023-03-1555 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Hero DiesThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 118 – The Hero Dies
Not all heroes wear capes.
And as a rising NBA star makes questionable off-court decisions, the easy bake narrative would be to pile on until we had yet another cautionary tale of too fast, too soon and if he knew better, he’d do better.
Wall $t. don’t do easy bake.
We do a deep dive on the topics at hand, explore the landscape, review similar situations and offer guidance, grace and a safe space to grow.
In the...2023-03-0846 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Pro To CallThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 117 – The Pro To Call
It’s not how we start, but how we finish and we plan on finishing strong!
The aggression level is pressed past 100 as we attack the rack, heading downhill into the final quarter of the NBA regular season and there are few better equipped to break down the goings on than the other half of The Incredible Two Man Team from #1On1 with Will and Duane, Supervising Producer, Community and Culture for Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, Duane Watson.
Wall $t. and...2023-03-011h 25
The Open Run With Will StricklandOff-BlackThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 116 – Off-Black
With some many mixed feelings around the goings on during NBA All Star Weekend in Salt Lake City, Wall St. connects the dots to weave the tale as it should be told!
Special birthdays are recognized, a bright light is extinguished, a NCAA champion is seriously challenged, March Madness bracket previews are dropped and more amazing milestones are reached!
From the Making of Mac McClung, new sneaker releases and a lack of competitive action in the showcase event to Candace Parker making history, Hall of...2023-02-2247 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandSentientThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 115 - Sentient
Wall St. gets all up in his feels as February 14th approaches, but by then, has all of his love gone to the WNBA and NBA trade deadlines, special birthdays, somber remembrances and great nachos during the Super Bowl?
Tap in to find out as he swaps stories and smiles with an old friend and high school classmate, Terry Ray, former defensive back in both the NFL and CFL, as well as a participant in a Super Bowl himself!
The guys chat everything...2023-02-151h 35
The Open Run With Will StricklandExpensive MoralityThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 114 – Expensive Morality
As we kick off #BlackHistoryEryday Month, the idea of freedom takes shape in everything from the stance of The Artist Formerly Known As Chris Wayne Jackson and the message behind the music of The Honorable Robert Nesta Marley to celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Culture at The Grammys and the Brooklyn Nets trade of Kyrie Andrew Irving.
There are questions…
Is the WNBA now top heavy in a way that is good for the league?
Is the Big 12 the best...2023-02-0846 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandA Dream DeferredThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 113 – A Dream Deferred
Making the world you want to see takes imagination, focus and patience to help you realize your aspirations.
And on that note, Wall St. builds with Mike Morreale, Commissioner Of The Canadian Elite Basketball League, as we chat on his past lives, today’s agenda with growing a professional sports league and the next chapters he’s writing in the quest for global domination in basketball as well as the rest of the News, Views and Truths on The Association and beyond!
We als...2023-02-011h 15
The Open Run With Will StricklandI, AloneThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 112- I, Alone
Whether you’re suffering through your own ByMyselfMeeting inner jihad, spending time fighting corporate greed and their price gouging of basic needs such as eggs, milk and bread, or imagining the chapters never to be written in the extraordinary life of the late, great Kobe Bean Bryant as his passing three years ago is observed, know that your mental and emotional state doesn’t go unnoticed or without consideration.
Though we don’t have all of the answers, sometimes, having a safe space to share...2023-01-251h 44
The Open Run With Will StricklandIn Risu VeritasThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 111 – In Risu Veritas
Sometimes, you gotta laugh to keep from crying.
It's not about sadness… well… not exactly.
It’s more about a mentality in fandom to shift goalposts fitting a narrative that brings a degree of false comfort and surety in today’s Attention Economy.
But we are off of that and on to the soul, to bring the News, Views and Truths on The Association and beyond!
And, in the spirit of service to others in honour of #MLKDay 2023, Wall $t. r...2023-01-181h 27
The Open Run With Will StricklandIrony DeficiencyThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 110 – Irony Deficiency
That the calendar has flipped on a new year and we are able to refresh, start anew and push ahead toward greatness is a gift.
And we never disrespect our blessings as Wall $t. welcomes WFNZ-Charlotte Radio and Locked On Hornets podcast host Walker Mehl to go 1v1 on everything from hip hop pedagogy, NBA midseason awards and early All Star Game voting to Brick For Vic(tor Wembeyama) campaigns, Miles Bridges, the future of LaMelo LaFrance Ball and his all-time Charlotte Hornets starting five!2023-01-111h 30
The Open Run With Will StricklandALL THE WAY LIVE!!!The Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 109 – ALL THE WAY LIVE!!!
As we close the books on 2022, Wall $t. calls on The Firm: former Boston Herald journalist Ed Molina, Full Court 21-Tokyo Champ Rio Yamazaki and longtime pod fan Jason Ray for The Open Run’s first even live podcast!
From best and fave NBA Xmas E’rythang, The International Invasion and basketball xenophobia, to hoops resolutions for 2023 and pontificating upon the 38thbirthday of The Hashtag, #HWSBN, and his place in the Pantheon of Greatness, we give you the News, Views and Truths You Choose...2022-12-311h 17
The Open Run With Will StricklandWhat's Your Why?The Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 108 – What Is Your “Why”?
Are you able to articulate and amplify your passions in Life and the motivation are turn suggestion into activation?
Wall $t. explores his reasons and rationale behind the podcast as we celebrate its second trip around the sun.
Along the way, #MerryChristmaHanaKwanzaaFestivusDiwaliEid NBA games are previewed, get to the bottom of why The Association decided, after a quarter or so of the season being done, to name all of the league’s year end individual awards, note a shakeup in the Men’s NCA...2022-12-2146 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandLife CalculusThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 107 – Life Calculus
For those who don’t know, some of Wall $t.’s friends call him “Hands” because they know they can count on him.
This episode is no different as the goods are delivered on basketball, hip hop culture and 30 years of memories with a dear friend, Steve Rifkind, CEO and founder of one of the greatest boutique rap labels in music history, Loud Records.
With artists from Mobb Deep, Big Pun and M.O.P. to Tha Alkaholiks, Twista and of course WuTang Clan, the s...2022-12-141h 25
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Delicate BalletThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 106 – The Delicate Ballet
The great Dan LeBatard once called basketball “ballet for giants”.
This Thing Of Ours has long provided voice and platform to beings that often defy expectation and life normative metrics seemingly always crafted by those who could never do the things these giants could, can and do.
Wall $t. sits down with another giant, die-hard Vancouver (yes… Vancouver) Grizzlies fan and filmmaker Kat Jayme, to discuss being a female sports fan and content creator fighting to be seen and for her voice to be hea...2022-12-141h 12
The Open Run With Will StricklandRighteous IndignationThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 105 – Righteous Indignation
In a time where it’s almost criminal to disagree with an opinion, popular or otherwise, how does one accomplish the feat?
Wall $t. taps into the contradictions of the season because they’ll kill you for The Truth faster than The Lies as Celtics’ Jaylen Brown helps lead his team to the best record in the NBA, but is he the next target?
NBA quarter season awards, holiday hoops tournaments, the return of the dominate big man to college, WNBA coaching carousel, Top 5 | P...2022-11-3044 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandEdutainmentThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 104 – Edutainment
In a glutted cyberspace sports talk marketplace of regurgitated “hot takes”, original thought, observation and analysis are often mistaken, if not completely disregarded.
Some people who look to ply their trade in The Attention Economy lack balance of insight in their delivery.
As has been Wall $t.’s way in this field, looking to educate and entertain on everything from The Kyrie Irving Saga to the importance of recognizing, empathizing and embracing women’s trials, tribulations and triumphs in This Thing Of Ours called Bask...2022-11-2353 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandSmokin' Wif' CigarettesThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 103 – Smokin’ Wif’ Cigarettes
If rules truly are made to be broken, why are we oft times beset with faux outrage when this phenomenon does occur?
Wall $t. and special guest Chip Fu of the 90s rap group Fu-Schnickens ignore the Surgeon General’s warnings and burn everything moving on his career, relationship with Naismith Memorial Hall of Famer Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal, Grown Man, what it means to be a True Fu-Schnick and more!
REFERENCES MADE: Britney Griner, The Handmaid’s Tale, Full Court 21 All World Cha...2022-11-161h 31
The Open Run With Will StricklandEternal Sunshine Of The Spotless MindThe Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 102 – Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind When do we as humans actually begin to “learn”?At what point, if ever, do we realize and acknowledge the launch of this mechanism that can both help and hurt us as times?Currently, for some, it may feel like “open season” on young Black males, especially those who play professional basketball in the National Basketball Association.But, Wall $t. and his very special guest, David Aaron, a former student of Will’s when he taught the world’s first university-accredited course on hip...2022-11-091h 49
The Open Run With Will StricklandPictures Of StrangersThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 101 – Pictures With Strangers
Have you ever looked at someone you thought you knew and wondered who exactly they were?
Pivotal moments in social media discourse, faux and | or selective outrage have us talking Kyrie, Kanye… and Jeff Bezos?
Wall $t. and special guest Mario Joseph, head honcho at UQAM, the University of Quebec At Montreal’s men’s basketball coach go 1v1 on his origin story, friendship built through building, whether it be for Full Court 21 Canada’s launch in La Belle Province or taking ove...2022-11-021h 14
The Open Run With Will StricklandConsumer FetishismThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 100 – Consumer Fetishism
Consume.
Buy.
Eat.
Take.
Steal.
Our fascination with “more” can be dangerous, no matter how much it is engendered in our society.
Did we make this world… or did the world make us?
Ponder that as Wall $t. gives you the News, Views and Truths that You Choose on the NBA and beyond as we enter the 76th season of play in The Association.
REFERENCES MADE: Karl Marx, The Kardashians, Everything...2022-10-2546 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe 2d Annual #DoWork Awards | 2022-2023 NBA Preseason EditionDo you realize how easy bake it is just to dole out the awards the NBA mandates?
We do!
So Wall $t. and special guest co-host Ryan Antonio Henry take fans on a ride through awards with names ranging from The Ski Mask Way All-Star and Heeee Wit' Us All Star to the You Gon' Get This Work! and the latest entrant, The Thanasis!
Tap in then weigh in with your picks for the only awards show fit to be a part of the podcast where Basketball and Life are One!
...2022-10-181h 20
The Open Run With Will StricklandNBA Season Preview 2022-2023 | Western ConferenceThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 97 – NBA Season Preview 2022-2023 | Eastern Conference
It's that time of year again!
Wall $t. and special guest co-host Ryan Antonio Henry offer keen insights on who will become the new Beasts Of The East after a summer of tumult and turmoil for a couple of the top tier squads in the conference.
The guys break down The Chosen Few, those on the outside looking in, some surprise teams who could disrupt the process and review potential breakout performers who ply their trade in one of...2022-10-1855 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandNBA Season Preview 2022-2023 | Eastern ConferenceIt's that time of year again!
Wall $t. and special guest co-host Ryan Antonio Henry offer keen insights on who will become the new Beasts Of The East after a summer of tumult and turmoil for a couple of the top tier squads in the conference.
The guys break down The Chosen Few, those on the outside looking in, some surprise teams who could disrupt the process and review potential breakout performers who ply their trade in one of three divisions: Atlantic, Central and Southeast.
When the East in in the house, oh...2022-10-1759 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandActual Fact SyndromeThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 96 – Actual Fact Syndrome
Stop us if you've heard this before, but...
Truth has no Owners; Just Realizers and Deniers…
And on this week’s ep, Wall $t. and his special guest, June Archer, head honcho of Eleven28 Entertainment Group, host of This Is 50.com’s “The Winner’s Circle” podcast as well as Motivate U. pod and so much more that is revealed in this episode, help you separate The Truth From The Lies..
All kinds of lessons are learned along the way on the podcast...2022-10-121h 19
The Open Run With Will StricklandOffice HoursThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 95 – Office Hours
Someone whose name rhymes with “Will Strickland” has oft been heard to have exclaimed that you never know the depth of your own talent until you work for yourself.
And while testing this notion is essential to the entrepreneur, as Will has been called “The Entreprenillionaire”, the same could be said about his guest this week, young visionary Keesa K of Hoop Queens.
Wall $t. and Keesa build on what drives her to be great in a world where Black women are fighting for respec...2022-10-051h 09
The Open Run With Will StricklandInvestigate Then AuthenticateThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 94 – Investigate Then Authenticate
If there was a Grand Council of Arbiters to determine greatness, how exactly could it be established and who’d sit at that table?
Judgment can be a tricky thing, especially when consider who is wielding the weaponry.
It is less so when these pesky little fact thingies get in the way of narrative built for salaciousness’ sake.
This week, Wall $t. welcomes longtime friend, DJ, producer, hooper and now author, Kenny Parker, of the legendary Boogie Down Productions crew, to sha...2022-09-281h 34
The Open Run With Will StricklandEven In Small ThingsThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 93 – Even In Small Things
Humans are Beautifully Flawed… Fallible…
Occasionally, Wall $t. uses this platform to sort out some of his rough edges, shortcomings and such.
He also talks about basketball and the world in it inhabits, as it, too, gets scarred and bruised from time to time, requiring attention.
So, when apologies don’t always make amends, A1 Since Day One fines out and that’s no typo. The NIL real deal in Baton Rouge gets (w)rapped up, the WNBA Finals come up al...2022-09-2142 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandMusic Of The NightThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 92 – Music Of The Night
When the city is your muse, the sounds are the rhythm to which you dance.
Once upon a time, a dreamer named Butch Carter started mapping out the yellow brick road he’d follow along a career as a McDonald’s All American, hooper at one of the most storied college programs, teammate of some of the best players in the annuls of our game and coach to both a present and a future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall Of Famer, amongst his many accola...2022-09-141h 18
The Open Run With Will StricklandDATs To DeitiesThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 91 – DATs To Deities
The Younglings say they get out of the mud… from the bottoms… and achieve heights barely imaginable.
Few ever turned their wildest aspirations into activation.
But for those who do, we celebrate and appreciate… never hate.
And that word to our special guest this week, Pensole Lewis College’s resident kicksologist and cultural renaissance man, the US Virgin Island’s Dee Wells, who laces ‘em up with Wall $t!
The guys go bar for bar on everything from Bruce Kilgore’...2022-09-071h 16
The Open Run With Will StricklandBroadcasts x WhispersThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 90 – Broadcasts x Whispers
Your voice matters.
But do you give oxygen to those that don’t?
Wall $t. invites special guest Shireen Edross, Head of Sneakers at eBay Canada and proud supporter of not only Full Court 21 Canada, but safe, accessible spaces and places for women in hip hop, basketball and sneaker culture, to share her grace with us
When you go from Not Doing to Doing… You go Lights, Cameras, Action with No Makeup, sometimes, you’ll find people, so-called friends and admirers...2022-08-311h 19
The Open Run With Will StricklandBeanThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 89 - Bean
Kobe.
Wall $t. tell some tales about The Late Great… relays some memories, be them good or not so good.
Was Kobe Tom Brady?
What exactly did Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, disguised as Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, have to do with the man The GOAT Earvin “Magic” Johnson dubbed The Greatest Laker Ever?
And though he’s been gone for over two and a half years, Kobe somehow organically showed up with daughter Gianna at Full Court 21 Canada’s...2022-08-2453 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandBelief > DoubtThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 88 – Belief > Doubt
When did you catch the fever?
Not COVID or anything like that, though it may be just as contagious.
The fever to do what you love in the life… to live each and every one of your days… to trail blaze instead of path find!
Wall $t. explores The Eternal Struggle and flowers are given to those who walked on the road to riches with you to get there…
But the riches are not about “money” insomuch as it the accruing...2022-08-1751 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandHandle "Hard" BetterThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 87 – Handle “Hard” Better
160+ days and Brittney Griner is not only still being wrongful detained in Russia, but have now been convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced to 9 years of additional confinement.
Having only an imagination to peer into the psyche of a human being restricted while we all ponder next steps, Kara Lawson, former WNBA All-Star, Champion, Boston Celtics Assistant Coach and current Duke University Head Women’s Basketball Coach, lends some bars into the universe about how we deal with life and the facts of the matter i...2022-08-1048 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandGiantThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 86 – Giant
Greatness Defined.
Not sure there is much else to discuss other than the loss of an indomitable human being this past Sunday.
Rest In Power, William Felton Russell
Sunrise: February 12, 1934
Sunset: July 31, 2022
Bill Russell walked it like he talked it.
Period.
Proud.
Black.
Man.
His greatness can’t and won’t be truncated in these bars here.
This is but an acknowledgment… an homage to the benchmark of basketball greatness and immo...2022-08-0454 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandProphesy Of PainThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 85 - Prophesy Of Pain
That It’s Hard Is What Makes It Great!
Not an exact quote, but the sentiment remains…
Though many may not agree, trusting your struggle can manifest in ways unimaginable.
Wall $t. chats with Le Belle Province’s Finest, 2022 Full Court 21 Canada Montreal Overlord Prince Oviawe, a Montrealer who did it for his people… Did it for the Burgs aka the neighborhood of Little Burgundy, steeped in so much Black history and in a park named after one of the grea...2022-07-2743 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Art Of FactsThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 84 – The Art Of Facts
The World's Most Unique Basketball Tournament, WNBA stretch drives, NBA trade and free agent machinations and the ongoing saga of Brittney Griner dominated the week.
But, in the midst of it all, the News, Views and Truths that you choose on the NBA and beyond at The Open Run With Will Strickland still gets delivered as Wall $t. finally welcomes 2017 Full Court 21 All World Champ and 2022 FC21CA Toronto Hoop Bawse, special guest Nolan “FiddyFiddy” Gooding, who drops his all time Top 5 Full Court...2022-07-2459 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandWord SaladThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 83 – Word Salad
Words Have Meaning…
And these Meanings form Mentalities.
More than likely, I’ve uttered or typed these words during the course of my podcasting | broadcasting career.
Today is no different.
The word under examination: Independence
While July 1, 12:01am marked a time for a different kind of freedom for NBA players, ask an Indigenous person what July 1, aka Canada Day, means to them…
Inquire as to the thoughts and feelings of the descendants of those once enslaved...2022-07-1555 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandSpecial Edition: NBA Draft AftermathThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 82 – Special Edition: NBA Draft Aftermath
It’s the News, Views and Truth that you choose on the NBA and beyond at The Open Run With Will Strickland as Wall $t. and special guest Ryan Antonio Henry of WeArePress.net’s Below The Hardwood podcast sing a fond farewell to old tax brackets and a bunch of new friends who will show up after the 2022 NBA Draft!
The Top 4 picks point to a shift in the game’s philosophy, though the Orlando Magic pulled off some 11thhour chicanery!
2022-06-2544 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandBelieve In The Heat CheckThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 81 – Believe In The Heat Check
It’s Summer and we are about to make it All The Way LIVE!!!
From WNBA All Star voting and teams across the league jockeying to play for $500,000 in The Commissioner’s Cup Series to NBA Dynasty Mode being activated, the energy is at all time high!
But we go even higher with the King of Audaciousness, the Commissioner of the National Basketball League of Canada, Audley Stephenson, who dishes with Wall $t. on his journey to the top spot, from p...2022-06-221h 10
The Open Run With Will StricklandWe Back OutsideThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 80 – We Back Outside
“Nothing Else In This World… Not All The Armies… Is So Powerful As An Idea Whose Time Has Come!”
Victor Hugo once said that…
As we continue our mission to create more connective tissue by turning suggestion into activation, a long overdue meeting occurs as Wall $t. laces ‘em up and runs the court with Dion Walcott, President of Martk’d and Director Of Partnerships, Pensole Lewis College Of Business and Design, Michigan’s lone Historically Black College Or University to talk how an official ki...2022-06-1559 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandInnocence Or IgnoranceThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 79 – Innocence Or Ignorance
At what point in Life are we imbued with the ability to discern Right from Wrong?
How do we govern ourselves when we engage in potentially destructive behaviours… and how do we redeem?
This week, Wall $t. engages a very special guest, old friend and superhero, 1968 Olympic Bronze Medalist in the 200 metre sprint, The World’s Fastest Humanitarian, Dr. John W. Carlos, who bless us with his journey toward immortality with a simple foundation: family.
From growing up on a countr...2022-06-0852 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandGame Plan DisciplineThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 78 – Game Plan Discipline
Life is funny sometimes… The Test first and The Lesson after.
At work and school, we can hide…
On a court… on a field… in an arena, in front of hundreds, thousands… millions of others, questions get asked and answered, directly, swiftly and quite often, emphatically.
You can be left exposed.
It is the Ultimate Truth.
And if you are not prepared properly for that moment, for every angle, iteration and possibility, well…
On this edition of...2022-05-3150 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandA 40 Degree DayThe Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 77 – A 40 Degree Day
No Ifs, Ands or Buts!
Make a decision, then stand on that!
At least that is the rote definition of Doing.
But what if you are not sure? Or maybe you are, yet don’t wish to reveal, for whatever reason?
These questions and more are asked and answered this week on the podcast where Basketball & Life are One!
Wall St. takes the temperature on everything from Memorial Day, rote patriotism, the Tuskegee Airmen, January 6th perm...2022-05-2444 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Gospel Of GivingWhether it’s Big Mama’s #MindTheSundayTruce gospel, Draymond Green and Kendrick Perkins debating the gospel or Yours Truly spittin’ that “Hostile” Hoops Gospel each and every week, we are exhibiting our Love Language by the act of serving you the best of the News, Views and Truths on the NBA and beyond!Wall St. gives each amounts of flower and darts to Eddie LeVert, Theodore Pendergrass, the greatest rock and roll song ever, The Ghost of Scott Foster, Christopher George Latore Wallace, a not-so-friendly game of geopolitical chicken with a side of Sucka Sauce and organizational malfeasance.Week 3 of the WNBA s...2022-05-1848 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe History Of E’rythangGenesis.Alpha.The Beginning.Origin Stories, especially compelling ones, can inspire to aspire.On this week’s episode, we call on a very special guest to run the floor and complete the hoops talk possession with us.We read his scouting report… It has but three words:He.Will.FINISH!The chat on All Things Basketball begins with no Brittney Griner, but she is in our hearts and minds as the 2022 WNBA season begins sadly without her, a distinct air of excitement as an all-time great mulls retirement, a young team takes early lumps as they learn there are levels to t...2022-05-1152 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandProtect Your QueenAs Mother’s Day and the start of the WNBA’s 26th campaign are on the horizon, we get all into our feelings and truly honor the genesis of our being: Women.Aiding in homage and sincere navigation of these things and more is Nashville’s very own Mike Patton, creator and host of Touring The AFC South (yep… a football dude and rock solid citizen all around), who details his journey in sports, journalism, broadcasting and Life as guided and inspired by the women in it.Mike and Wall $t. trade bars on Glenn Rivers’ decision making, Boston getting Boston’d an...2022-05-041h 10
The Open Run With Will StricklandVirtual InsanityIn nineteen hundred and ninety-four, the world was blessed (or cursed, depending upon with who you speak) with a technology that would change the course of mankind… for better or for worse.We’re still sorting out the official particulars there.Chuck Creekmur, the CE0,000,000 of AllHipHop.com and Delaware native steps in the square to talk about establishing a unique voices in the cacophony of these rough, interweb streets, and the Philadelphia 76ers as they eye the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the 2022 NBA playoffs.
With injury befalling each of the teams left in the quest for...2022-04-271h 24
The Open Run With Will StricklandEsprit De CorpsThe late great Kobe Bean Bryant (Bless The Dead) was once told that there was no ‘I” in “Team”, to which he responded:“Yeah… ain’t no I in Team… But there is “Me” in that motherfucker!”And despite the 5-time NBA Champion’s sentiment above, we call on squad as Affect The Culture’s Darius Robinson enters the centre and brings the energy as we talk about his life’s mission, the importance of beatboxing in high school boys bathroom rap battles, proper biscuit construction, basketball roadtrips and the Atlanta Hawks during the first weekend of the 2022 NBA playoffs.
W...2022-04-201h 05
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe 1st Annual #DoWork Awards: Regular Season Edition feat Below The HardwoodWe have reached the end of the 75th NBA regular season, the Diamond season as they call it, where they celebrated the past, present and future of the NBA all season long. The NBA Playoffs begin this weekend and with that comes award season. Will Strickland of "The Open Run with Will Strickland and Ryan Henry of "Below The Hardwood" sat down to hand out the 1st Annual #DoWork Awards as well as the NBA's regular season awards such as MVP, COY, DPOY and more in this special crossover edition of The Open Run and Below The Hardwood. Do What’s...2022-04-1854 min
The Open Run With Will Strickland2022 NBA Play-In Review & Playoff PreviewThe 2022 NBA Playoffs begin Saturday April 16th, so get prepared with a special crossover episode of The Open Run with Will Strickland and Below The Hardwood featuring Will Strickland and Ryan Henry.The gentlemen preview, breakdown and predict the first round of both the East and West NBA playoffs and review the Play In Tournament games thus far
You can find Ryan Henry on NBA Podcast Below The Hardwood as well as;Twitter: @RAHenry Instagram: @RAHenry
Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets:Twitter: @W_Strickland1IG: WillStrickland12022-04-161h 08
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Cost Of Living“Hark! Who Goes Yonder?”“T’is I, The 2022 NBA Playoffs, Fans!”
Yes, the second season is nigh and eventually we will have hardware to dole out for a most unique season in The Association to individual players, coaches, executives and teams alike!.We stay fashionably in step during the proceedings with the help of Kendra Charisse Porter, an award winning image consultant, body expert and stylist.The Original KCP and Wall $t go back like fat crayons and car seats… all the way back to the campus of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the world’s first universi...2022-04-131h 24
The Open Run With Will StricklandEmotional RegulationThe calendar changes, but don’t be fooled!April brings the end of the NBA regular season, the start of the playoffs and March Madness Finals Four.Though we quit school due to recess because we don’t play, the Kansas Jayhawks, South Carolina Gamecocks, Connecticut Huskies and North Carolina Tarheels do. A man of many hoops hats, Canadian Elite Basketball League’s Vice President and General Manager Of The Ottawa Blackjacks Jevohn Shephard, enters the centre to help Wall $t. sort out all of this week’s official particulars.The former Senior Men’s National Standout, current Raptors 905 colour commentator...2022-04-051h 21
The Open Run With Will StricklandDisrespectful x ChurlishLearning to say you’re sorry for people you’ve wronged is one thing…Meaning it is a whole ‘nother thing.To one degree or another, we are all still works in progress.There is no shame in admission.With March Madness Finals Four set, the last two weeks of the NBA’s regular season before us and just a month or so out from the launch of the WNBA’s 26th season, we close out #InternationalWomensEryday strong!And because Basketball Never Stops, to help Wall St. navigate these rough interweb streets, we enlist The Honourable Marci Ien, Member of Canadian Par...2022-03-291h 01
The Open Run With Will StricklandA Chance & A ChoiceOpportunity presents us all with options.Our decisions affect everything we do… and don’t do.Alas, here, ambivalence shan’t be suffered.So, with that in mind and in the words of that Immortal Kneegrow Wordsmith, Pimpin’ Ken:“What’chu Gon’ Do? BBQ Or Mildew?”We select the cheffin’ as Wall $t. gets to cookin’ with Lawton, Oklahoma’s Finest, ESPN Senior Editor Eddie Maisonet III on Sweet Sixteens, Cinderellas, and players who earned checks at the next level with their performances to All-America honours, a hoops return that will never be forgotten and the true meaning of Zero Appreciation.Black mal...2022-03-221h 10
The Open Run With Will StricklandAfraid of Being AfraidFear can be life stifling… or quite the motivator.Canadian independent sports agent and 1999 NCAA Dunk Champion Gary Durrant runs the resume on how he decided to take a leap of faith and jump into the shark tank that is athlete representation.The head honcho of Durrant Sports Management and Wall $t go 1v1 on everything from the misguided notion of loyalty in sports business, NIL rules and Dickie V to Black women as NBA agents, the process of making an NBA roster, Dunk Contest robberies in plain sight, a 1970s tv sitcom reference, and more!After Selection Sunday and in...2022-03-161h 25
The Open Run With Will StricklandThe Hope That Kills YouNice with numbers?The Artist Formerly Known As Dante Terrell Smith once exclaimed that it was never the last straw that breaks the camel’s back; it’s the 999,999 underneath it.It's called Mathematics.Most definitely.Here to ease some of that pain, at least temporarily Fellow BKNY native Glenn K. Bolton, aka Daddy-O, the leader of the original hip hop band Stetsasonic, joins forces with Wall $t. as things aren’t adding up and eerily evolving a world away from many of us, but standing strong in solidarity with a people who are doing their best not to break does.W...2022-03-091h 36
The Open Run With Will StricklandSemantic SatiationEver had a #ByMyselfMeeting?In some instances, it’s double entendre.For our purposes here, we’ll attempt to elucidate our thoughts, but… in the words of a young Canadian emcee:
“I’m Just A Kid, Livin’ In My Head…Tryin’ To Make Some Sense, But I Don’t Make My Bed!”Helping Wall $t. this week to launch International Women’s Month is #BlackTwitter First Ballot Hall Of Famer and Social Media SuperShero, Buzzer’s Jasmine L. Watkins, who steps in the arena and drops jewels on her road to the riches.Respect Her Gangsta!The NBA’s Power 10 is bac...2022-03-021h 18
The Open Run With Will StricklandYesterday’s Price Is Not Today’s PriceWhat is the real cost paid for achievement?Time… and Effort.And we find out what debt is due as we welcome Duke University’s James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African-American Studies and Professor of English Mark Anthony Neal to enter the centre to talk hip hop and education, hoops, mental health, and Black male feminism.With the All Star festivities this past weekend, the Power 10 stands still and we drop who’s hot and who’s not during our second half season preview.Of course, we recap the magic of All Star Weekend, from Hall of Fame nom...2022-02-231h 34
The Open Run With Will StricklandBlowin’ Kisses In The Rice RainIt’s said that absence makes the heart grow fonder…And if after just one week, you missed us, the feeling is mutual.You had us when you pressed “play” every week on the podcast link.Dunno if Valentine’s Day brings out the best in feelings for you, but as we introduce multimedia supershero Thembisa Mshaka to the #BlackHistoryEryday and hoops proceedings, we hope you are ready to enjoy the jewels dropped and the love spread as we separate The Truth from The Lie.Let Us Learn You!News, Views and Truths References Made: Insectionality, Policing and Power Dynamics, Twitter Un...2022-02-161h 37
The Open Run With Will StricklandChoose ViolenceAmerica didn’t invent violence…But it damn sure perfected it!In a different, less destructive way, equal opportunity smoke is offered across the hoops landscape and Wall $t. looks to broker the peace as #BlackHistoryEryday continues.Helping to bring The Ell Ooh Vee Eee to the proceedings and do it with a laugh is comedian extraordinaire Russell Peters enters the center to talk about how little he knows about basketball, but that his boxing and hip hop culture game is top shelf! We chat his current tour, upcoming projects, South Asian superheroes, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, Joe Rogan and bein...2022-02-0945 min
The Open Run With Will StricklandFight The WindAs we launch #BlackHistoryEryday, it may seem at times that the toughest thing to do is Live…Optimism is great to have and even better when it is realized.But the lines between What Is and What We Dream It To Be can be quite different and at the end of the day, we gotta figure out play the cards we’re dealt, especially when you know the game is rigged.Welcome To Reality!Sometimes, it’s hard!To help ease some of the difficulties, Wall $t. enlists the words and wisdom of CBS Sports’ Producer Nata Edwards to pontificate on the e...2022-02-011h 34
The Open Run With Will StricklandMispronounEver get confused as to how you refer to a person these days?It can be an adventure if you are not aware and sensitive to how one wished to be recognized.However, it is not what you are called but to what you answer and Wall $t. requests the presence of the first NBA assistant coach of Indian descent, Canadian hoops coaching legend Roy Rana.The newly-minted bench bawse of the Egyptian National Team globetrots with Will on his journey and impact, domestically and abroad, in This Thing Of Ours because his name is his name, word to Marlo...2022-01-251h 21