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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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00:47:27

Honour The Gift

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2025/01/08

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 200 – Honour The Gift Welcome to 2025, where everything is supposed to be so fresh and new. But in recognizing things we tell ourselves to push another revolution around the Sun, we should realize The Blessings Within… learn to count victory in every loss! And did we ever learn some things over the holiday season! Whether it be about the now-21-year-old Victor Wembanyama or the now-40-year-old #HWSBN, the emerging greatness of Hanna Hildalgo, the

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01:24:45

Motion

The Open Run With Will Strickland ·

2024/12/18

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 198 – Motion It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday, word to Boyz II Men, we must. 2024 will have been remarkable for women in sport, in particular, basketball, and infamous for its collective decision making in the clutch, whether we are talking geopolitics or NBA analytics. One thing is for sure and the rest for certain is that we will finish this year strong because the gift is in the giving. Here to help Wall $t. close out properly and not get

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00:40:37

Floor Raiser

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2024/12/11

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 198 – Floor Raiser For the penultimate show of 2024, grace is shown to the glow up over 4 amazing seasons of podcast. In a glutted marketplace, where “The Monetizable Mid” is generally the resume for the day, when dope hoops insight is a must, you gotta go with a name you can quickly trust! We’re not saying we’re #1…. Oh! We’re sorry! We lied! We’re #1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5! This week, Wall St. talks the European flavour of the Golden State Valkyries, the

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00:47:19

The Purpose Of Lies

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2024/12/04

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 197 – The Purpose Of Lies “Everything you see ain’t really how it be…” To continue quoting The Artist Formerly Known As Dante Terrell Smith: “Alot of jokers out, running in place, chasin’ a style… Be alot going on beneath the empty smile.” In the midst of ever-changing times and post-United States Presidential election, truer words have rarely, if ever, been uttered. Alas, we are here to separate The Truth from The Lie, so let us learn you about the

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01:13:03

Beat The Level

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2024/11/27

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 196 – Beat The Level Someone had to set the bar first before there were any attempts at raising it. On this week’s episode, Wall $t. calls upon Taylor Rodriguez, Community | Brand Leader at streetwear retailer SNIPESUSA, to succeed at exceeding during their chat on women of colour in the industry, the explosion of women’s sports on the landscape and how this surge can grow and be sustained. Along the way, we talk kicks, FC21 All World Final and FC21CA’s

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00:41:41

The Me Nobody Knows

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2024/11/20

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 195 – The Me Nobody Knows Self-critiques can be harsh. Vulnerability may not always be your friend, but there is healing in letting go of certain predispositions and conditioning. Think of it a Chicken Noodle Soup For The Soul! And this week, Wall $t. looks to soothe you with his thoughts on the week that was, be it the self awareness of one artist not professionally known as Malik Abdul Aziz, the aura of the greatest mixed martial artist who ever

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01:44:35

Main Character Syndrome

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2024/11/13

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 194 – Main Character Syndrome Basketball is a team sport. Though we generally walk alone along paths we follow or those we blaze, we collect a squad during the journey. They all play a role, be it for a reason, season or a lifetime x back to be a star in his role is Walker Mehl, co-host of the Charlotte, North Carolina-based Locked On Hornets podcast and WFNZ-FM radio stalwart. Walker and Wall $t. separate the real from the lie on everything from the

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00:44:19

Old Justice

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2024/11/06

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 193 – Old Justice Two weeks down in this 79th NBA season and we’ve had a couple of surprise learnings about some teams with championship aspirations who may have to realign their alignment to flip their dreams into reality. But Wall $t. lets you know there is more than that to be had in a week where we were hit with a serious injury bug, held hope for the promise of several rookies, welcomed the return of college basketball, reviewed the excitement around

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01:15:53

Peace In The Puzzle

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2024/10/30

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 192 – Peace In The PuzzleThe Immortal Kneegrow Poet, GOAT-tier wordsmith and current full time flautist Andre Lauren Benjamin once uttered a homophone that resonated heavily with the person typing right now when he said:“… Peace, My Brother! Peace this and peace that… But every time I’m trying to have some peace of mind, N***as wanna take a piece of mine… So I had to grab my piece!” It is a sad reality for many in the place we call Earth. And this week,

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00:54:40

Earn The Sunset

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2024/10/23

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 191 – Earn The Sunset Why would we things we take for granted when the blessing is generally in having the opportunity to be and do better than we did the day prior, no? And yet, we do. Has that ever dawned on you? In a special episode prepping for the 79th campaign of The Association, Wall $t runs the court on a historic happening in LA, a banner raising in Beantown, future stars plying their trades on college hardwoods with dreams of professional glory and

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02:06:12

Rock Bottom

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2024/10/16

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 190 – Rock Bottom Are we talkin’ Dwayne Johnson, the depth of an addition… or like the foliage of Fall, where every team starts at the beginning of a new NBA season? You already know the deal! This week, Wall $t. enlists the co-hosts of Hip Hop Hoops, Iggy and Woods, to run their resumes and swap bars on This Thing Of Ours called Basketball. In a special episode prepping for the 78th campaign of The Association, the guys dole out the goods and bads in an

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01:13:47

Blackronyms

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2024/10/09

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 189 – Blackronyms “IBYAYABM!” Meaning? “I’ve Been Your Age… You Ain’t Never Been Mine!” One could lose count of exactly how many times this phrase, and other variations, have been uttered to a someone who’d violated the sanctity of an child-to-adult family interaction.SOGFB. Coded language as a means of survival was a necessity for a group of people forcibly brought to North America for the function of serving as unpaid labour for 500-plus years. Going from

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00:50:54

Late Model Sedan

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2024/10/02

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 188 – Late Model Sedan Is 50 the new 40? Is everything old new again? The soon-to-be 40 year old all-time great of the Los Angeles Lakers embarks on another record-setting and history making campaign during The Association’s 78th season, the man whose longevity record is being tied by #HWSBN is once again at the centre of controversy in Toronto, and tired racial and sexual tropes get appropriated all over again in Indiana as well as all over social media, so

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00:48:26

Deep Cover

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2024/09/25

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 187 – Deep CoverThere is an argument in these rough interweb streets as to who the most famous rapper alive today… Many names may come to mind, and when you weigh the pros and cons of your decision, perhaps there will be consensus on who just may fit that bill.What is also fitting as Fall is officially here and with that, so too are the WNBA playoffs, the 33d Anniversary of an album that got Wall $t. through university and the opening of the 78th season of

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00:33:54

Winds Of Change

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2024/09/18

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 186 – Winds Of Change In the words of that Immortal Poet, the late, great Marcel Theo Hall:“Can You Feel It? Nothin’ Can Save You, ‘Cuz This Is The Season Of Catching The Vapors!” And vapors indeed you will catch as we blow into fall and that means a couple of things: · Playoffs for the most exciting and the most important WNBA season are on the horizon · The 78th season of the National Basketball Association begins · College basketball’s

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01:21:20

#FiF

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2024/09/11

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 185 - #FiFIn Toronto, the end of the Canadian National Exhibition on Labour Day Monday generally marks the end of Summer. Similar scenes play themselves out across the country and maybe even the continent as the younglings head back to school and the rest of us wrap our minds around the dawn of Fall: football and foliage.Back to help Wall $t. bring the games of Autumn into the fore is long-time collaborator, amigo, comrade, homie, friend and Super Producer

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01:29:23

Failed Hate Watch

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2024/08/14

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 184 – Failed Hate Watch You could hear it in their voices, and tightly clinched Arthur fists, whether on screen or off of it, watching the games with baited breath. Rabbit’s feet, rosary beads, voodoo dolls, Infinity Stones and various boxes of Lucky Charms cereal were initiated in full for the fall of American hoops exceptionalism in France. Alas, it was not to be… But for how long will it not? Here to help Wall $t. break it all down is Canadian former

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00:41:02

Haliwood, Halifornia

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2024/08/07

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 183 – Haliwood, Halifornia “Home Away From Home” seems pretty self-explanatory, but have you ever truly found and enjoyed one? The last stop on the 2024 FC21CA Canadian National Tournament Tour feels like a home away from home for Wall $t. as the community comes together like an Olympic Village to ensure the absolute best presentation possible. And, maybe with the prominence of legendary rap figures at the Paris Games, like Snoop Dogg, Flavor Flav and even

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00:39:52

Viva Las YEGas

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2024/07/31

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 182 – Viva Las YEGas When you have to reinvent yourself, do you look to the Olympic opening ceremonies for fashion forwardness… or do you sponsor an entire Olympic sport?If your name becomes a verb like Jeffrey Atkins’ did, can you reinvent yourself in something that is so fleeting like celebrity? The answers to pressing questions like these can be found in this week’s episode of the podcast, where we’re talking all things Olympic basketball, from how a

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01:20:52

Basking In The Light

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2024/07/24

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 181 – Basking In The Light It is said that what is done in the dark must soon come to… well… You see the title of the episode! Could that glow of America’s promise come in the form of its first woman president, who just so happens to be Black? We may be a bit away from that, if it is ever to occur, but we’ll burn a candle for those who value the idea of democracy, diversity, equality and The Strickland Way as we invite 2-time Full Court 21 Canada-Montreal

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