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The Open Run With Will Strickland
by #1NBRHD
Where Basketball x Life Are One!The Open Run With Will Strickland: The News, Views x Truths You Choose On The NBA x Beyond!
Episodes
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The Sacrificial GOAT
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 240 – The Sacrificial GOAT Fin. No matter in what language it’s uttered, printed or intimated, The End is always The Inevitable, be it for players, coaches, styles of play, eras… and even broadcast professionals in their fifth decade of being one of the...
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Interregnum
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 239 - Interregnum There is a space between Right and Wrong where decisions are made. The Eternal Struggle is between the Heart and the Mind. The Heart knows no Logic; the Mind knows no Feeling. War or Peace. You choose. The penultimate episode weighs…
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All The Things
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 238 – All The Things Wall $t’s Dear Ol’ Dad (Bless The Dead) once told him that there are two sides to every story; three when you include The Truth. Bars filled with wisdom have put your host in a reflective mood as many of the players he’s watched over...
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The Maybes
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 237 – The Maybes Suppositions can be dangerous. Fear can paralyze even the most stout of heart into questioning the point & purpose of their existence. The Artist Governmentally Known As Duval Clear sits down with Wall $t to talk flipping uncertainties to...
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Miles x Minutes
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 236 – Miles x Minutes How wide do you believe the gap between “good” and “great” is? It's not rhetorical. Many a player, team and coach with ask of themselves and others the very same question, verbally or in competition. What does it take to get there?...
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Critiques x Credentials
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 235 – Critiques x Credibility Who would hire a cab driver to build a new home for them? Oft times, in today’s sports media landscape, the rough equivalent of that same cab driver is given the keys to the reporting car, spouting baseless drivel about a...
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Interruptin' My Kung Fu
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 234 – Interruptin’ My Kung Fu “If You’re Going Nowhere In Life, Any Road Will Take You There…” This bar from Wall $t’s Dear Ol’ Grams (Bless The Dead), uttered to him when he was but a wee lad, set the groundwork for his decision to trail blaze and never...
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Strategic Amnesia
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 233 – Strategic Amnesia Misremembering… Learning how to forget… Convenient tools on occasion. In the ongoing battle of era toughness and credibility, the past and those who hold it dear, some to the point of grossly misrepresenting the goings on of the...
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Wanna Bet?
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 232 – Wanna Bet? Appealing to someone’s competitive nature is one thing; crafting an environment where greed and excess are normalized to the degree that people see it as aspirational is another. Gambl—ahem… pardon us… “gaming”, legal or otherwise, in...
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Untitled
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 231 - Untitled Ever been on the outside of an inside joke? Make sure you are not as Wall $t. might crack a smile, but ain’t a damn thing funny about mixing it up with Austin, Texas’ AM 1300 The Zone’s The Morning Kickoff’s duo! Former Major League…
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Screams Beneath The Soil
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 230 – Screams Beneath The Soil What you focus upon will grow. Be it is negativity or positivity in your crosshairs, your energy will reveal and yield. On the show this week to help our hoops goodness bloom and blossom is Friend of the Program and co-host…
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The Violence Of Truth
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 229 – The Violence Of Truth My Dear Ol’ Dad (Bless The Dead) used to say that there are two sides to every story… three when you include… Well… Friend of the Program and all-everything Canadian sports broadcaster Savanna Hamilton will help me to get to...
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Anti-Social Media
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 228 – Anti-Social Media I’ve always had a Love | Hate relationship with these rough interweb streets. Working in sports media in Canada didn’t change it; only amplified it. Circumstances changed. We’re here wow, but I’m revisiting its relevance in Life.…
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Outta Town Shooters
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 227 – Outta Town Shooters Despite the adage that in order to get a job done right, you gotta do it yourself, sometimes in Life, you may be required to count on outsourcing talent to complete a mission. With the NBA’s first wave of training camps and media...
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Ordered Steps
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 226 – Ordered Steps “It Was Written”… or so it says. What is the difference between Fate and Destiny? Is there any? As the 80th campaign of the National Basketball Association is a scant few days away, we explore the stumbling blocks and stepping stones...
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Get The Day Back
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 225 – Get The Day Back No matter when you are reading this, you’ll never have that exact time ever again. What do you do with that knowledge? Inevitability… As the sand in the hourglass waits for no one, and yet somehow, we often wish it would stand…
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BBall Bong Bong
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 224 – BBall Bong Bong On the last episode before our #PartsWellKnown Tour across Canada for The World’s Most Unique Basketball Tournament, Wall $t. summons the wonder twin powers of Los Hermanos Del Baloncesto by calling upon El Jefe Supremo of FC21 All...
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Engagement Farming
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 223 – Engagement Farming We all join things to fit in… belong. It could be the band, chess team, the military or a book club, but we join to be a part of something greater than ourselves. This week, a new champion will be crowned in The Association, a...
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Faded Pictures
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 222 – Faded Pictures Living in the past can be tough. Nothing ever changes. Not accepting the natural evolution of things can be even tougher. We’re here to ease the transition toward acceptance, revolution… or both. Wall $t. calls on former St.…
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Proof Of Concept
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 221 – Proof Of Concept 1,307 total games played in the 2024-2025 campaign, but… will we see seven more? The roads the Western Conference champion Oklahoma City Thunder and the Eastern Conference-conquering Indiana Pacers took to get here matter little at...
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Belts In Motion
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 220 – Belts In Motion The end of May brings reminiscence for several things past, be it a long lost loved one, the real origin story of MemorialDay, and why one NBA conference finals series is more compelling than the other, despite an alleged lack of…
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Hardwood
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 219 - Hardwood Even though we’re about a month away from Father’s Day, the relationship between Black fathers and sons can be simple and direct… complex and complicated or a number of other variables in between. That unique dynamic is explored, as Wall…
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Uptempo
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 218 - Uptempo What is The World’s Most Expensive Commodity? In the NBA, it’s spent in 48 minute blocks… Occasionally, when the game gets restless, it generally requires at least 5 more. Of the eight teams left to battle for professional basketball’s...
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Engine Light
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 217 – Engine Light The Elite Eight. 30 started the journey where only one with reign supreme. Wall $t. calls on frequent collaborator and super podcast producer Ryan Antonio Henry to get on the road to riches and NBA diamond rings, where real hoopers do...
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The 2d SZN
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 215 – The 2d SZN Never Forget. The Regular Season is where All-Stars are made. The Postseason is where Superstars emerge. The feeling is in the air as we’re close to rounding our who the NBA’s conference semi-finalists will be, but in the meantime in...
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In The Margins
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 215 – In The Margins The Immortal Post-Modern Contemporary Literary Giant Melvin Glover once allowed his quill to scribe the following words: “Don’t Push Me ‘Cuz I’m Close To The Edge, I’m Try-in Not To Lose My Head…” Giving voice to the voiceless… the...
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The Same 24
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 214 – The Same 24 86,400 Seconds. 1440 Minutes. You get them… Daily. We all do. With what do you do with yours? Wall $t. spends some of Life’s most expensive commodity with sports anchor for the New York Post and host of New York’s Got Game, Dexter Henry,...
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Wins x Lessons
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 213 – Wins x Lessons Life is a competitive sport. Sometimes, you are victorious… other times, not so much. On the occasions when the terms are not in your favour, how do you deal? “You’re not a loser in anything until you quit”, as was once uttered by...
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The Law Of Three
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 212 – The Law Of Three Set Up. Execution. Follow Thru. Many fail at the third one, but not our very special guest! We are graced by the presence of the Northeast Conference’s steals leader as a freshman, the Point Goddess herself, Wagner College’s Keana...
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Competitive Reset
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 211 – Competitive Reset Sometimes when you are working your plan, the plan doesn’t work. How do you pivot toward prosperity? On this week’s ep, we call on Jason Hooten, Head Men’s Basketball Coach for the New Mexico State University Aggies, who will share...
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Epistemicide
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 210 – Epistemicide Epistemicide is a term used to describe the destruction or devaluation of knowledge systems, particularly those that are not in alignment with dominant paradigms or Western tradition. TRANSLATED FOR OUR PURPOSES HERE: “Murica Gon’...
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Cultural Stock Exchange
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 209 – Cultural Stock Exchange Intellectual Property is a valuable commodity outchere in these rough interweb streets. And as run headlong into the madness of this month, we are looking to make wise investments with your time, energy and Selection Sunday...
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Destiny Manifested
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 208 – Destiny Manifested Raptors Manager Of Social Impact and 2023 FC21CA #LadiesFirst panelist Katherine Allen pulls up on Wall $t. to talk being a lifelong Raptors fan, the team’s outlook for the immediate future, normalizing representation, and how…
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Certitude
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 207 – Certitude Very few things in this Life can be guaranteed. Death… Taxes… max | supermax NBA contracts… and getting the best insights and discussion covering the goings on from The Association, WNBA and Unrivaled to men’s and women’s NCAA action and…
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Terms x Conditions
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 206 – Terms x Conditions As Valentine’s Day has come and gone, with people professing “unconditional” love for one another without actually understanding that “unconditional” is still a condition, you may wonder what is not subject to equivocation. Wall…
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The Purity Test
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 205 – The Purity Test If sunlight is the best disinfectant, what reveals itself when cold hard cash is your primary motivation… or at least keeping as much of it as you can, tried and true institutions be damned? This requires investigation then...
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Sunlight
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 204 – Sunlight As the calendar turns the page on January into Black History Month, outside of honouring the the past, present and future greatness of a marginalized people, we don’t wait for a groundhog in Pennsylvania or Ontario to let us know when…
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The Illusion Of Inclusion
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 202 – The Illusion Of Inclusion In the consolidating text of the United States called The Constitution, there is a phrase: “We, The People…” that clearly wasn’t intended for all of the humans inhabiting the land. The so-called founders of a place already...
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The Law Of Unintended Consequences
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 202 – The Law Of Unintended Consequences It is said that “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions”, but have you ever wondered why that is? Well, please know that Wall $t. won’t just talk about what will happen, but will act upon said intention.…
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Buckle Up
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 201 – Buckle Up Tough to have hoops on the mind when Los Angeles is burning, but we’ll salute the first responders and think good thoughts for those who lost a lifetime of memories, homes and lives. One week away from the United States Presidential...
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Honour The Gift
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…
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Motion
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...
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Floor Raiser
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…
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The Purpose Of Lies
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...
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Beat The Level
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…
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The Me Nobody Knows
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.…
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Main Character Syndrome
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...
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Old Justice
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…
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Peace In The Puzzle
The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 192 – Peace In The Puzzle The 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...
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Earn The Sunset
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…
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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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