Ryen Russillo joins Domonique Foxworth and the Domonique Foxworth Show crew to discuss news and notes around the NBA and NFL:
0:00 Welcome back to the Domonique Foxworth Show
1:20 Are you more concerned about the Eagles offense or defense?
9:51 Ryen Russillo joins the show
13:52 Thoughts on Draymond Green’s indefinite suspension
32:10 Is this version of James Harden and the Clippers sustainable?
41:10 Do the Suns have enough to win it all?
49:15 Where do the 76ers stand in the East?
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18 Comments
What a fine job!😛
Ryan is back!
Clippers have been on fire lately
East = Fugazi
I think the East are full of title pretenders. I saw a record showing that Western teams against Eastern teams was far higher than vice-versa. The top East teams struggle against the top West teams.
I believe whoever wins the WCF will become the champion once again. Think about it. We watched the Heat, a 5th seed in 2020 and 8th seed in 2023, make the Finals twice in 4 years. A team always lacking talent and is only good with their culture. Where their center is only 6'9 and can't space the floor. What does that tell you about the East then? They're weak.
Milwaukee only won it in 2021 because of several injuries to several top teams. Same with Toronto in 2019 beating the Warriors who lost KD and Klay to injuries. When most of the top teams from both conferences are fully healthy, the West usually wins. This has been going on since Jordan's Bulls broke up after the 1998 season. The biggest indicator has been the last two Finals. The West has most of the best players in the world.
I was doing my All-Star voting today and I was looking at the East candidates. Man, it's weak. Beyond Giannis, Embiid, and Dame, they really have nobody over there. 😂 Harden is not even a top 10 player in the West and I would still take him over Tyrese Haliburton. I would take Paul George over Tyrese Maxey. The East is looking like the LEASTern Conference once again. These players wouldn't be noticed as much if they played in the West.
If the Warriors who are still a sub-500 team defeated the Celtics without Draymond, then my Clippers who defeated the Warriors twice within two weeks better beat the Celtics this Saturday which will be another dreaded early 12:30p game. The East got nothing. I'm high on the Sixers but they always find a way to lose to the Celtics and they can't seem to get passed the 2nd round like my Clippers did those first 50 years until 2021.
Whoever comes out of the West will win it all. Bucks, Celtics, Sixers, and Heat don't scare me one bit and two of them do have size which bodes problems to my team. Clippers will handle Knicks, Cavaliers, Magic, Pacers, Nets, or Hawks if they miraculously make the Finals in which they won't. They're all just a bunch of pretenders and also-rans. The team to beat remains the Nuggets. We need to take the crown from them. Nuggets aren't just going to give it up so easily as Rachel Nichols keeps saying.
I don't care if Stephen A. Smith is rooting for the Lakers to beat my Clippers because LA has a better vibe when Lakers wins it all. My Clippers have NEVER a won championship and this NY bozo wants to see the Lakers win another one? I don't even give a flying f**k if nobody shows up to our championship parade and we're the 2021 Chicago Sky where nobody attended. Easy parking for me and I'll still be celebrating with my family. I don't need to see looting and burning LAPD cars. I'll celebrate peacefully and not remake the 1992 LA Riots each time Lakers wins it all.
Break your cherry already, Clippers. We must try to win it all or the entire roster, coaching staff, and FO will break apart in the summer. This is it, Clippers. This is your Last Dance. You want to stay in LA and you want an extension? You must do whatever it takes to win a chip. And not fake ones that LeBron keeps piling up in order for him to be comparable to the real GOAT in Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Westbrook is doing all the sacrificing and being the best cheerleader for our team.
Why do Chiney and Malika keep picking my Clippers? Why can't Chiney pick her Rockets and Malika pick her Warriors? As long as Skip Bayless and Kendrick Perkins are picking the Lakers over the Clippers, the Clippers will be fine. Skip is 72. It seems his 2020 and 2021 Finals prediction will come true but by 2024. Only took 3-4 years for it to come true.
I have receipts saying Skip picked the Clippers over Sixers in 7 for the 2020 Finals. He repeated it again the following year. And go ask Shannon about that and he'll tell you. It's only when Skip stops picking the Clippers and Sixers that they can finally go further in the playoffs. Skip is a jinx just like he is to his Cowboys every year. Every year he gasses them up, and every year he gets heartbroken by them every January.
My Niners could eliminate the Cowboys for the next 30 straight years and Skip still won't take the hint and will pick his Cowboys every time while he reaches the age of 102. And I don't hate the Cowboys like other people do. Hallelujah! Nobody was picking my Clippers to win it all during preseason and now either us or the Sixers are going to win it all because we aren't carrying any media jinx.
The media jinxed that 2022 Nets team, the year Kyrie refused to get vaccinated. They jinxed my Clippers in 2020 and we gagged a 3-1 lead. The media knows jack squat on how to pick winners. The year Stephen A. Smith aced it was in the 2022 season. He was picking the Warriors in early November 2021 to win it all and they did. Then Draymond punched Poole and that was the end of their dynasty.
1. Nuggets
2. Clippers
That's it. Those teams will beat whoever comes out of that Fugazi LEASTern Conference where Tatum will go 7 for 20 every other playoff game and Giannis will miss a bunch of FTs because he only jumps towards the rim if he wants to score. Dame has shown to disappear in 4th quarters from time to time. Sixers have bad luck. Heat only have culture but lack the talent to win it all. Yet, the tiny Miami Overachievers have eliminated the Bucks and Celtics twice and the Sixers once during the past 4 years.
Nuggets remains the team to beat until proven otherwise. I know their record isn't as good as a few other teams but they'll figure it out after AS break. It's a long season full of ups and downs for every team. Champions usually have a switch they turn on by April. The 2001 Lakers was a perfect example at turning on a switch and didn't lose for two months until Iverson stepped over Lue. That team went 23-1 from April 3 to June 15, 2001.
Stephen A. Smith is rooting for the Lakers over Clippers right now, but once we get a 2024 Western Conference Finals between Nuggets vs. Clippers, he will be on his knees begging for the Clippers to win it. No way he wants to be in Denver in June. As you wish, Ese (essay). I personally want Celtics or Heat to win the East as it will be much easier for my Clippers to dispatch them in the Finals because they lack size.
Go, Clippers! Let's finally win this one so everyone can stop mocking us as a loser franchise. Winning one is all it took for the Cleveland Cavaliers to shed their loser label. Kansas City Chiefs won nothing until Mahomes came along. All it takes is one and you are world champions forever as Steve Young said.
You called that sympathy ryen aound more like nurkic was taking a shot at him
New style of POINT GUARD means anyone can play it
ANYONE that has some talent of playmaking
If you have anything bad to say about how Harden is playing you just haven’t been watching the games, James is one of few Basketball geniuses in the game
you bums srsly saying Harden only had 1 game this season where he played amazing defense? gtfo
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This goofs obviously not watching the games!!! Especially the guy in the middle, he said he tried for 1 game! Gtfo here!!! Why people would listen to you if you don't even know what's happening with the clippers.
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Clearly someone hasn't been watching Clipper games!! Westbrook has accepted his role and excelled more than anyone could imagine
Imagine still thinking healthy young people should have gotten the shot. You are either stupid or a liar if that is your position to this day.
When talking ab Luke n harden, dude said “except one is good in the playoffs” if Luka keeps his current playoff pace, he too will b dubbed a “choker” didn’t he not even make the play in last year lmao? Harden has never missed the playoffs n lost to the warriors 3 times then the KD warriors twice. Immediately after, lost to bubble lakers, then Bucks. Champions. All of em. He does what he needs to in the regular season and also the playoffs until he comes against a clear better team. Then that’s when the media acts like it was something other than simply losing to the better team. In 14 years he’s never lost a playoff series as a favorite. Oh and btw. His elimination game numbers across the board r better than D Wade , Kobe, and Far more … as a starter
the white dude that's not russillo does not know ball
Russ killed solo last year in the Playoff what is this guy talking about smh Russ hate for no reason
@10:35 ryen uncomfortable with his Boston bigoted self that he hides lol