A Full-Fledged Jokic-Gasm With Kevin O’Connor and J. Kyle Mann. Plus, Jake Tapper on Post-Trump TV Life.

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 117 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Kevin O'Connor and J. Kyle Mann to discuss Nikola Jokic's MVP-caliber play, his presence on the court, the Nuggets' playoff hopes without Jamal Murray, the era of positionless basketball, and more (2:50). Then Bill talks with CNN's Jake Tapper about what it was like to cover political news in the past year-plus, covering non-Trump topics on 'The Lead With Jake Tapper,' moderating both Democratic and Republican presidential candidate debates, mega-panel TV shows, his new novel 'The Devil May Dance,' and more (1:02:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast is presented by Fandall sportsbook. Right now you can find the Bill Simmons.
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0:20.4	on Wednesday morning. Get the odds and you can bet them and you'll get a really good boost.
0:26.4	We're also brought to you by the ringer.com as well as the ringer podcast network. Hope you're
0:33.7	enjoying the ringer verse or nerd culture podcast that that people really love. Rewatchables
0:40.8	went up on Monday night. What about Bob? Wasn't the greatest therapy movie of all time.
0:46.0	You'll have to listen. Definitely in the Bill Murray later career comedy apex of what he was doing.
0:53.6	Because I think it was that first and groundhog day right after. Quick change right before. What about
0:58.0	Bob? Was also a really good one. All right. Coming up on the pod. Kevin O'Connor and Jake
1:04.2	Halman from the ringer. We're going to break down this Yoke at MVP season. Why we think he is
1:10.5	unquestionably the MVP, but also why it's been a really special season and some of the things we've
1:15.7	seen some big picture stuff, some deep dive stuff. Really had a lot of fun doing that one. And then
1:20.8	Jake Tapper, who has never been on this podcast before, but we're going to talk about what life is
1:26.0	like in 2021 with politics and everything else. That is the pod first. All right. Kevin O'Connor
1:53.1	is here. Kyle Manis here. There's a Yoke celebration podcast. I think his MVP is totally justified.
1:59.7	The odds have finally swung that way. And I like to do this thing near the end of the season talking
2:05.2	about how big the MVP trophy should be. Where you know, you think about like the gold medal in the
2:11.1	Olympics. It's the same for every sport. And you would think like the 100 yard dash should just
2:16.8	be gigantic. It should be like a bigger gold medal than some of the other ones because it meets
2:20.5	your fastest person world. In the NBA, I always thought it could be like 40 pounds, 20 pounds,
2:25.4	10 pounds, five pounds. And then like the one pounder that you give for the car on my own,
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