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Book of Basketball 2.0

1998 Redraftables: Sleeping Dirk, Free-Falling Pierce, and the Craziest NBA Draft Ever With Chris Ryan and Ryen Russillo | Book of Basketball 2.0

Book of Basketball 2.0

The Ringer

Sports

4.85.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo and Chris Ryan to revisit the 1998 NBA draft and some of the legends in that draft class, before redrafting the first 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.

0:06.2

The first episode of season two is brought to you by the Ringer.com and the Ringer podcast

0:12.6

network where we're still trying to crank out a bunch of content including this week on

0:16.9

the Ringer.com.

0:18.4

The greatest TV characters of the 21st century.

0:21.3

We did a whole bracket so you can check that out as well as all the pods we're doing.

0:28.0

Coming up me, Ryan Rosillo and Chris Ryan are breaking down the craziest draft of the

0:34.1

last 25 years.

0:35.1

The 1998 NBA draft.

0:38.2

This draft was drunk.

0:40.3

That's the other way I can describe it.

0:42.1

This draft actually was overserved and it had to be driven home.

0:45.7

It's all coming up.

0:46.7

This is the Book of Basketball 2.0.

1:17.7

It's the 98 redraft.

1:20.1

When I asked Chris Ryan to do this and I told him to draft and the other co-host other

1:25.5

than myself, Ryan Rosillo.

1:28.7

I think it was his greatest moment of 2020.

1:32.3

It's not a great year for any of us but this is going to bring some levity and some happiness

1:37.8

to all of us.

1:38.8

This is the fucking craziest draft of all time.

1:42.0

I have Simmons Crap Shoot rating for each draft which I use the acronym Scrap for this

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