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The Open Run With Will Strickland

Where Basketball x Life Are One! The Open Run With Will Strickland: The News, Views x Truths You Choose On The NBA x Beyond!

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01:24:25

The Phenom

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2023/09/06

The 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,

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01:47:54

Hoopers Hoop

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2023/08/30

The 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

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01:04:25

Acknowledge Us

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2023/07/10

The 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

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01:15:55

Screenage Love

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2023/06/21

The 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

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01:19:20

Son Of The City

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2023/06/14

The 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

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01:10:02

Vertically Gifted

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2023/06/06

The 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,

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00:40:49

An Honest Liar

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2023/05/30

The 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

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00:42:38

Assholes x Elbows

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2023/05/23

The 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 chance for a

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01:24:37

Energy Thieves

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2023/05/17

The 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

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01:05:46

I'm Him!

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2023/05/10

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

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01:16:33

Emotional Convenience

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2023/05/03

The 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

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01:31:53

G'Morning, Yesterday

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2023/04/26

The 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

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01:47:04

Bully Of The Gym Class

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2023/04/18

The 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

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01:29:25

Goal Digger

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2023/04/12

The 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 and go

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01:32:15

The Art Of Discernment

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2023/04/05

The 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

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01:15:14

Comfortably Numb

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2023/03/29

The 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

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01:14:16

Laundry x Taxes

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2023/03/22

The 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

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00:55:02

Organic Unicorns

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2023/03/14

The 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

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00:46:56

The Hero Dies

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2023/03/08

The 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 midst of it all, the

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01:25:37

The Pro To Call

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2023/03/01

The 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,

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