1997 Redraftables: Duncan the Sure Thing, T-Mac the Sleeper, and Rick Pitino the Ruiner With Joe House | Book of Basketball 2.0

Book of Basketball 2.0

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🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Joe House to revisit the 1997 NBA draft and discuss the gravitas of NCAA basketball, the lack of info on most draft prospects, the "Duncan Lottery," and more before redrafting the top 15 picks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the Book of Basketball 2.0 on the Ringer podcast network is brought to you by the
0:07.8	ringer.com and the ringer podcast network where we're still trying to crank out a bunch of content
0:13.2	including this week on the ringer.com the greatest TV characters of the 21st century. We did a
0:18.7	whole bracket so you can check that out as well as all the pods we're doing. Coming up the 1997 draft
0:28.1	Joe Hassanette are going to redraft this. This one has a lot of sentimental reasons to me specifically
0:34.0	career wise, Boston fan wise, you're about to hear all of it. Rick Patino you might want to turn
0:40.0	this podcast off right now. Here we go book a basketball 2.0.
0:57.4	All right we are doing a 1997 NBA redraft. My name is Bill Simmons here with Joe House. We're on
1:19.2	the zoom. We're zooming it up. We're zooming it's good to see you buddy. We may never see each other
1:24.2	again. This might be our only only relationship. I'm really against it. Well at least I'm willing to
1:31.0	look at you only on the internet as long as it means that neither one of us got the rona. Yeah.
1:37.3	Well I think this hopefully will lead to a lot of things like this including I kind of feel like
1:42.7	we have to do a rewatchables of the 86 masters. Oh my god in the place of masters weekend which
1:51.0	I'm upset about so many things. I really miss basketball. I fear for the future. I fear for my
1:58.4	family and my kids not having the masters is just going to be I can't even deal with it mentally.
2:07.1	It's always the sign that spring was here for me. It wasn't even opening day. It was the masters.
2:11.9	Yeah. I'm with you on that and we are going to lose that but I still have hope. I'm keeping hope
2:17.5	alive. BS we could have an incredible unprecedented once in a lifetime fall sports schedule that
2:25.9	includes all four majors running from like the end of July through December. Yeah. Along with
2:33.6	everything else would be pretty titsy if I may say so. So we're doing I did the 96 draft with
2:41.0	Racelo. Now we're doing the 97 draft just to reiterate some of this stuff here.
2:50.6	I created a scrap rating. Oh. It's called it's the acronym for Simmons Crap Shoot rating
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