The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 172 – Exit Ramp
Sometimes, it’s tough to know when to say “when”…
Imagine being married to the game and knowing, no matter what you did, you could not divorce yourself from it.
This week, Wall $t. collabs with a lifer who may never walk away from basketball: Canadian legend and hoops multihyphenate Leo Rautins, who has seen the heights and depths of an existence dominated by This Thing Of Ours.

The guys will chat about everything from being a prodigy in the sport, living a dream in the NBA and contributing to the game at every level to Caitlin Clark’s first week in the WNBA, Zach Edey’s future, Raptors draft options and the interesting combatants in the NBA Conference Finals.
News. Views. Truths.

References Made: Roundball Rock, Shawn Corey Carter, stolen credit cards, Megan Pete, guaaaar-onn-tee!, Boys II Men, wild parsley, Houston Comets, Ball Park franks, destination station, Trevor George Smith, Jr., Main Source, The Wheat Sheaf, tradition, Club 520 podcast, Micheal Ray Richardson, #tackleBoxSZN, Stu Granger, 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 Strickland Episode 171 – The World Is Grey
How do you dream?
Is it in black and white?

It is in Technicolour?

During a time where things ain’t always how they appear or what they seem, do these dreams get muddied by the doubts, criticisms and insecurities of many who can’t do what you do or see what you see?
Never worry as Wall $t. helps sharpen the focus on everything from Caitlin Clark’s WNBA debut, Mother’s Day, when the news ain’t the news, A’ja’s A-1 Since Day 1, NBA Award Tour, The Association’s playoff progress report and a young lady who fears not the burden of leadership because it’s not about what you are called; it is all about to what you answer!
News. Views. Truths.

References Made:

La Spoelstra Nostra, Met Gala, Shawshank Prison, athletics, The Greek, centurion, Gaza, The Dorture Chamber, vignettes, Cheddar Cheese Stalin, binary extremes, Rudy T, bereft, Zach Edey, prose, Joe Biden, cringy, Larry Tannenbaum, 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 170 – Survivor’s Remorse
Regrets in Life have a place for some.
Whether you live with them or not, the mere contemplation of what could have been seems to riddle us at one point or another on our respective journeys.
How do your remedy the feelings and set your sights on all that lay ahead?
Former Boston Herald reporter and NYC political press scribe Ed Molina, aka Honudran Heat, deciphers the tea leaves with Wall $t. on everything from the NBA playoffs, the league’s new media deal and its strange bedfellows to and slow, painful acceptance of eras ending, the potential consequences of tofu between two all-time rap greats and the new business of the emerging WNBA!
News. Views. Truths.

References Made:

Hypermasculinity, Spiderman, Ravishing Rick Rude, New York Times, Elliott Spitzer, G.I. Joe, fake nicknomenclature, Kermit Wilts, Massholes, Do The Right Thing, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Socialism, Ted Turner, The Toronto Sun, Ice Cube, kayfabe, R.I.P. Frank Tyson, Trading Places 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