A Genius Westbrook Pick, Rose vs. Love, and the 2008 Redraftables With Ryen Russillo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 121 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to talk about their early years in podcasts and radio, respectively (3:10). Then they revisit the 2008 NBA draft and discuss some of its subplots, draft comedy, and NBA legends before redrafting the top 14 lottery picks (40:33). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:54.0	We have a new podcast launching on June 29th, which is a Monday. It is called the Bakari Sowers podcast.
1:02.8	He was on my podcast two weeks ago. He was just brilliant. And he's in general an amazing guy
1:07.8	and could not be more happy that he's going to be joining us. He's going to be doing two podcasts
1:11.6	a week and really diving into this election in this moment. The country is having right now. But
1:18.6	we even want he's going to be reacting to the debates after they happen. I think there's going
1:23.3	to be at least four big debates and then doing preview pods for those debates as well. And his
1:27.6	guest list is ridiculous. And I am really excited to get his perspective on stuff. We had to keep
1:34.8	it at 1600 guys in 2016 that eventually became crooked media, pod save America, all those pods.
1:42.0	And it was great to have them. They're a perspective and they're intellect during one of the
1:47.8	craziest elections of all time was just awesome to have. And we've had looked around for a while
1:55.5	after that trying to figure out, is there a way to have that again? And I think Bakari is the
2:02.9	answer in a lot of different ways because he is really, really talented and couldn't be happy
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