The Open Run With Will Strickland

Words have Meanings… And these Meanings form Mentalities. Words can make or break a spirit, a day or a career. Tap in as Wall $t. runs the court with actor and multi-talented entertainer, forever hooper and old friend Ramon Rodriguez as the two talk being on “the greatest television show ever writ or spit”, working with the late Michael K. Williams, what he learned from sharing the screen with Den...

With a new season on the way, Ryan Antonio Henry of Below The Hardwood joins Wall $t to preview the 2022 NBA Season. In this episode, they will preview the Central Division out of the Eastern Conference. They predict the winners, losers and surprises coming out of the division and provide their thoughts on each team ahead of the upcoming season. Don't Get Beat Off The Dribble! Find Will On These R...

If we only knew as much as we think we do… If only…My Dear Ol’ Grams (Bless The Dead) has a third grade education, but her Intellect of Curb was top shelf. She once told me that sometimes in Life, The Obvious is the Hardest to See… Mostly because we don’t want to see it. Perhaps this is the paradigm in which we are dealing in this alleged NBA vaccine “civil war”, but are we all being bamboozled… b...

It’s been said that Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder… but what exactly attracts that gaze? In what can be viewed as an epic battle between Reality and Virtual Reality, the fine line between the two has been blurred and inextricably altered. We now live in an entire culture centered on the validation of others, lusting for the “like”, “retweet” and emoji hearts. Wall St. invites Canadian Senior...

If Change is The Only Constant, Why Is It That Some Fight So Hard Against It? There are certain inevitabilities that draw fear, like Death, as for others, Taxes...and this podcast. So, too, is the fact that the late, great Sam Cooke was correct: A Change Gon’Come! This week’s special guest, Cleveland Cavaliers broadcast network #TheChaseDownpodcast host and Winnipeg, Manitoba’s Finest, Justin Rowa...

What happens when you Plan Your Work So You Can Work Your Plan, but... the plans don’t always workas you planned? Do you quit? Start over? Count Victory in ever Loss and learn from it all? This week’s special guest, ESPN’s Bomani Jones, chills with Will and spits game on the resilience of spirit it took for him to ascend the heights he has to date. There have been some wild times and great charact...

Hard to believe Summer is almost over... The transition toward Fall brings a different level of introspection and initially, the plan was not to toil during the state-mandated holiday weekend. But when you love what you do, is it really work? This week, I task former Raptors 905 color commentator and fancy assed fashion model Warren Ward to get busy and do work that’s not really work as we build o...

It would have been The Great Michael Joseph Jackson’s 63rd birthday this past weekend. I was blessed with the opportunity to work once. I have stories to share... but, in ways, you had to be there... “Being There” matters... especially when you are WARPed!: Warm. Attentive. Responsive. Present. Your best ability is availability and Wall St. is joined by friend and Co-CEO of the Legendary Duck Down...

All The World’s A Stage... And All The Men And Women (Or However You Gender Identify)Merely Players.... Some have roles and responsibilities, earned, given or otherwise, with more extensive requirements than others. And with those things, quite often come the rewards. Doesn’t diminish the thoughts, actions and opinions of others with lesser roles as their voices matter just as much At surface glan...

What exactly is “The Truth” today? Not the nicknomenclature of newly-minted Hall of Famer Anthony Pierce, but whatever it is, does it really set you free? Will’s Dear Ol’ Dad (Bless The Dead) used to always say: “There are two sides to every story... Three when you include The Truth!” And each and every week, I endeavor to bring you an honest, insightful and nuanced lens to the News, Views and Tru...

Bet you can’t remember the last time you hand wrote a letter... if ever. There is a certain intimacy to it that could never be achieved via zeros and ones on a screen from Thumb Technology, dependent upon from whom the letter is received. Stimulus Check. IRS. FBI. The Artist Formerly Known As Carlton Douglas Ridenhour aka Rock x Roll Hall Of Famer Chuck D of the legendary rap group Public Enemy, s...

Urges... Whims... Impulses. Temptation to fall prey to the delights of the world may never leave us, but some things you just cannot resist. One thing in particular is getting the News, Views and Truths you choose on the NBA and beyond during The Open Run with Will Strickland! This week, Wall $t. welcomes another fellow bball lifer, Slam Magazine’s Anthony Gilbert, to pontificate on All Things NBA...

Wall $t is joined by Below The Hardwood podcast hosts to discuss the 2021 NBA Draft just mere moments after the end of the first round. They discuss the top 5 picks, the teams that drafted them and the potential impacts they will have on their new franchises. They name their sleepers, best international players, possible busts and more. Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets:Twitter: @W_Strickl...

Cliches can be fun sometimes... they can also be trite. “The Game Has Changed”. “The Game Is Afoot”. In our case, those phrases are one and the same as Will Strickland invites legendary Canadian AAU bawse Tony McIntyre in to talk The New World Order in the NBA, his sons and the Draft process, Moroccan food in Philly and the high school athletes’ everchanging landscape. Wall $t also celebrates Gian...

It’s been said that plans are what you made while Life is happening...And while Life is happening, does what you do with your time ultimately matter? Will Strickland ponders the question as yet another hip hop legend takes his leave from the planet. In addition, he introduces us to NBA.com Global Edition Digital Content Manager and former Wake Forest Demon Deacon baller Gabriel McGregor to preview...

You get what you can negotiate in this Life. Earning your way to that status matters as well. At points in the journey, you may be asked to do some things counter to your core principles for the benefit of the greater collective. This week, Will Strickland calls upon NBA TV Canada’s Akil Augustine to reflect on Canada’s downfall at the FIBA Americas Qualifying Tournament, the greatness that was Ni...

Clean slate. Fresh start. Sometimes, the start of a week feels that way, no matter your discipline. Opportunities to craft greatness from thousands of hours of dreams, wishes, and work reveal themselves. With the NBA Finals, WNBA All-Star Game, and 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games on the horizon, Will Strickland breaks down the possibilities for both the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks, explor...

If you knew you were going to pass away today, can you say with the utmost certainty that you’d done everything you wanted to do in Life? Are you living without regret today? In a deeply personal episode, Will Strickland finds catharsis in words exchanged with his best friend over a vegan soul food lunch about what we give back to this world, be it through hoops, podcasting, the music industry, te...

One day, when we are no more, maybe someone will remember us… remember this…But for now, we do what we must to bring meaning to Life and hopefully leave the world a little better than it was before we got here. Will Strickland brings a friend to the proceedings as they talk truth ban, Juneteenth, and hoops with B-U-N-B, Your OG’s Favorite OG, reppin’ P.A.T. (Port Arthur, Texas)!Wall $t and The Art...

Masks.  We all wear them… Some more than others. Be not amazed at the energy we spend in ensuring we put on our best face for the world to see. Yet, in the words of a famous Brooklyn emcee: “I’m sure that everybody out listenin’ agree… that everything you see ain’t really how it be!”, no matter how well-manicured your social media pages or how your playoff team looks on paper. When it’s all stripp...

You might need your own scoresheet to keep up with a wide range of references made in this one as Will welcomes an old friend, Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor of English, Jason A. England, aka Trill of the might infamous Filling The Lanes podcast from years past. These storytelling hip hop and hoops Magellans will have you enthralled as they navigate their podcasting careers, overco...

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Ego is a helluva drug. It can have you believing wrong is right, up is down, and that you already know who will win the 2020-2021 NBA World Championship! Fear Not! Sports media hyphenate Mike Wise of The Mike Wise Show on Pure Hoop Media drops by to set the record straight with Will on the opening weekend of the best time of the year in pro basketball, exorcising his own demons and how he’s naviga...

Performing in more postseason games than anyone who ever lived as well as scoring the first-ever play-in game triple double comes with proper acknowledgement and privilege! You will all be witnesses when an Irresistible Force meets an Immoveable Object as the compadres of fellow WeArePress.net podcast Below The Hardwood with hosts Ryan Antonio Henry, Alan Shane Lewis and Dexter Arriola grace the p...

Words have Meaning… and these Meanings form Mentalities. Then there are things that defy description with verbiage. Alas, host Will Strickland, a beast with the nouns and verbs, attempts to defy the undefiable as he brings you the News, Views, and Truths on the NBA and beyond, including a very public reunion long overdue, an induction ceremony minus two, season openers on two continents, and a wil...