The Open Run With Will Strickland

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 90 – Broadcasts x Whispers Your voice matters. But do you give oxygen to those that don’t? Wall $t. invites special guest Shireen Edross, Head of Sneakers at eBay Canada and proud supporter of not only Full Court 21 Canada, but safe, accessible spaces and places for women in hip hop, basketball and sneaker culture, to share her grace with us When you go fr...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 89 - Bean Kobe. Wall $t. tell some tales about The Late Great… relays some memories, be them good or not so good. Was Kobe Tom Brady? What exactly did Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, disguised as Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, have to do with the man The GOAT Earvin “Magic” Johnson dubbed The Greatest Laker Ever? And though he’s been gone for ove...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 88 – Belief > Doubt When did you catch the fever? Not COVID or anything like that, though it may be just as contagious. The fever to do what you love in the life… to live each and every one of your days… to trail blaze instead of path find! Wall $t. explores The Eternal Struggle and flowers are given to those who walked on the road to riches with you to...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 87 – Handle “Hard” Better 160+ days and Brittney Griner is not only still being wrongful detained in Russia, but have now been convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced to 9 years of additional confinement. Having only an imagination to peer into the psyche of a human being restricted while we all ponder next steps, Kara Lawson, former WNBA All-Star, Champ...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 86 – Giant Greatness Defined. Not sure there is much else to discuss other than the loss of an indomitable human being this past Sunday. Rest In Power, William Felton Russell Sunrise: February 12, 1934 Sunset: July 31, 2022 Bill Russell walked it like he talked it. Period. Proud. Black. Man. His greatness can’t and won’t be truncated in these bars here. Th...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 85 - Prophesy Of Pain That It’s Hard Is What Makes It Great! Not an exact quote, but the sentiment remains… Though many may not agree, trusting your struggle can manifest in ways unimaginable. Wall $t. chats with Le Belle Province’s Finest, 2022 Full Court 21 Canada Montreal Overlord Prince Oviawe, a Montrealer who did it for his people… Did it for the Bur...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 84 – The Art Of Facts The World's Most Unique Basketball Tournament, WNBA stretch drives, NBA trade and free agent machinations and the ongoing saga of Brittney Griner dominated the week. But, in the midst of it all, the News, Views and Truths that you choose on the NBA and beyond at The Open Run With Will Strickland still gets delivered as Wall $t. finall...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 83 – Word Salad Words Have Meaning… And these Meanings form Mentalities. More than likely, I’ve uttered or typed these words during the course of my podcasting | broadcasting career. Today is no different. The word under examination: Independence While July 1, 12:01am marked a time for a different kind of freedom for NBA players, ask an Indigenous person w...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 82 – Special Edition: NBA Draft Aftermath It’s the News, Views and Truth that you choose on the NBA and beyond at The Open Run With Will Strickland as Wall $t. and special guest Ryan Antonio Henry of WeArePress.net’s Below The Hardwood podcast sing a fond farewell to old tax brackets and a bunch of new friends who will show up after the 2022 NBA Draft! The...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 81 – Believe In The Heat Check It’s Summer and we are about to make it All The Way LIVE!!! From WNBA All Star voting and teams across the league jockeying to play for $500,000 in The Commissioner’s Cup Series to NBA Dynasty Mode being activated, the energy is at all time high! But we go even higher with the King of Audaciousness, the Commissioner of the Na...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 80 – We Back Outside “Nothing Else In This World… Not All The Armies… Is So Powerful As An Idea Whose Time Has Come!” Victor Hugo once said that… As we continue our mission to create more connective tissue by turning suggestion into activation, a long overdue meeting occurs as Wall $t. laces ‘em up and runs the court with Dion Walcott, President of Martk’d...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 79 – Innocence Or Ignorance At what point in Life are we imbued with the ability to discern Right from Wrong? How do we govern ourselves when we engage in potentially destructive behaviours… and how do we redeem? This week, Wall $t. engages a very special guest, old friend and superhero, 1968 Olympic Bronze Medalist in the 200 metre sprint, The World’s Fas...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 78 – Game Plan Discipline Life is funny sometimes… The Test first and The Lesson after. At work and school, we can hide… On a court… on a field… in an arena, in front of hundreds, thousands… millions of others, questions get asked and answered, directly, swiftly and quite often, emphatically. You can be left exposed. It is the Ultimate Truth. And if you ar...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 77 – A 40 Degree Day No Ifs, Ands or Buts! Make a decision, then stand on that! At least that is the rote definition of Doing. But what if you are not sure? Or maybe you are, yet don’t wish to reveal, for whatever reason? These questions and more are asked and answered this week on the podcast where Basketball & Life are One! Wall St. takes the tempera...

Whether it’s Big Mama’s #MindTheSundayTruce gospel, Draymond Green and Kendrick Perkins debating the gospel or Yours Truly spittin’ that “Hostile” Hoops Gospel each and every week, we are exhibiting our Love Language by the act of serving you the best of the News, Views and Truths on the NBA and beyond! Wall St. gives each amounts of flower and darts to Eddie LeVert, Theodore Pendergrass, the grea...

Genesis. Alpha. The Beginning. Origin Stories, especially compelling ones, can inspire to aspire. On this week’s episode, we call on a very special guest to run the floor and complete the hoops talk possession with us. We read his scouting report… It has but three words:He. Will. FINISH!The chat on All Things Basketball begins with no Brittney Griner, but she is in our hearts and minds as the 2022...

As Mother’s Day and the start of the WNBA’s 26th campaign are on the horizon, we get all into our feelings and truly honor the genesis of our being: Women. Aiding in homage and sincere navigation of these things and more is Nashville’s very own Mike Patton, creator and host of Touring The AFC South (yep… a football dude and rock solid citizen all around), who details his journey in sports, journal...

In nineteen hundred and ninety-four, the world was blessed (or cursed, depending upon with who you speak) with a technology that would change the course of mankind… for better or for worse. We’re still sorting out the official particulars there. Chuck Creekmur, the CE0,000,000 of AllHipHop.com and Delaware native steps in the square to talk about establishing a unique voices in the cacophony of th...

The late great Kobe Bean Bryant (Bless The Dead) was once told that there was no ‘I” in “Team”, to which he responded:“Yeah… ain’t no I in Team… But there is “Me” in that motherfucker!”And despite the 5-time NBA Champion’s sentiment above, we call on squad as Affect The Culture’s Darius Robinson enters the centre and brings the energy as we talk about his life’s mission, the importance of beatboxi...

We have reached the end of the 75th NBA regular season, the Diamond season as they call it, where they celebrated the past, present and future of the NBA all season long. The NBA Playoffs begin this weekend and with that comes award season. Will Strickland of "The Open Run with Will Strickland and Ryan Henry of "Below The Hardwood" sat down to hand out the 1st Annual #DoWork Awards as well as the...

The 2022 NBA Playoffs begin Saturday April 16th, so get prepared with a special crossover episode of The Open Run with Will Strickland and Below The Hardwood featuring Will Strickland and Ryan Henry. The gentlemen preview, breakdown and predict the first round of both the East and West NBA playoffs and review the Play In Tournament games thus far You can find Ryan Henry on NBA Podcast Below The Ha...

“Hark! Who Goes Yonder?”“T’is I, The 2022 NBA Playoffs, Fans!” Yes, the second season is nigh and eventually we will have hardware to dole out for a most unique season in The Association to individual players, coaches, executives and teams alike!.We stay fashionably in step during the proceedings with the help of Kendra Charisse Porter, an award winning image consultant, body expert and stylist. T...

The calendar changes, but don’t be fooled! April brings the end of the NBA regular season, the start of the playoffs and March Madness Finals Four. Though we quit school due to recess because we don’t play, the Kansas Jayhawks, South Carolina Gamecocks, Connecticut Huskies and North Carolina Tarheels do. A man of many hoops hats, Canadian Elite Basketball League’s Vice President and General Manage...

Learning to say you’re sorry for people you’ve wronged is one thing…Meaning it is a whole ‘nother thing. To one degree or another, we are all still works in progress. There is no shame in admission. With March Madness Finals Four set, the last two weeks of the NBA’s regular season before us and just a month or so out from the launch of the WNBA’s 26th season, we close out #InternationalWomensEryda...

Opportunity presents us all with options. Our decisions affect everything we do… and don’t do. Alas, here, ambivalence shan’t be suffered. So, with that in mind and in the words of that Immortal Kneegrow Wordsmith, Pimpin’ Ken:“What’chu Gon’ Do? BBQ Or Mildew?”We select the cheffin’ as Wall $t. gets to cookin’ with Lawton, Oklahoma’s Finest, ESPN Senior Editor Eddie Maisonet III on Sweet Sixteens,...