The Open Run With Will Strickland

The 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,...

The 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, B...

The 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 t...

The 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...

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 Wa...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 135 – Hoopers Hoop Yeah… We took a summer vacation… just to go to work all across Canada & TheUnited 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...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 134 – Acknowledge Us Embarking on a new journey can be exciting and unnerving, whetheryou’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 Tourn...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 133 – Screenage Love As 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 Leaguein Toronto as they talk the NBA Draft and which class w...

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 exis...

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 enjo...

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 t...

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...

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...

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 beh...

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 L...

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...

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...

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....

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....

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...

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 al...

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 ho...

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...

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 Wil...

The 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...