A Lakers Eulogy, Suns of Anarchy, Joker’s Wild, and Round 2 Predictions With Seerat Sohi and J. Kyle Mann

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Seerat Sohi and J. Kyle Mann to discuss the Lakers' Round 1 playoff exit at the hands of the uber-confident Suns, the Lakers offseason, the Suns’ Round 2 prospects, and more (5:30). Then they talk about the Nuggets closing out their Round 1 series with the Trail Blazers, Nikola Jokic’s domination of the series, potential Trail Blazers trades and more (48:30). Finally they make predictions for some Round 2 playoff series including Suns-Nuggets, Buck-Nets, Hawks-76ers, and more (1:13:30). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Seerat Sohi and J. Kyle Mann Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What if the Len Bayes story hosted by Jordan Ritter-Con
0:03.1	is the ringer's latest narrative podcast?
0:05.6	Episodes 1 and 2 launch on June 9th and you can find new episodes every Wednesday
0:09.8	on the Book of Basketball 2.0 feed. Here's a quick trailer.
0:14.8	You've heard his name, Len Bayes,
0:17.7	1980s phenom, second pick in the NBA draft,
0:22.2	and then cocaine, tragedy, one of the most shocking deaths in sports history.
0:28.2	35 years later, Bayes' legacy is still making an impact.
0:33.6	From Spotify and the Ringer podcast network, this is What If, the Len Bayes story.
0:39.1	I'm Jordan Ritter-Con.
0:44.0	We're also brought to you by the ringer.com and the Ringer podcast network. If you missed
0:48.5	the rewatching post this week, we did Momento. We're doing a classic on Monday. We actually
0:54.4	got back together in the old studio, me, Chris Ryan, Sean Phenesee. In person,
1:00.1	we did the next rewatching post which is coming on Monday. I'll tell you what it is.
1:04.6	Now, what the hell? Raiders of the Lost Ark. You might have heard of it. One of the greatest
1:08.4	movies of all time. It's the 40-year anniversary next week. So we jumped in. It is on Paramount,
1:14.6	by the way, if you have Paramount Plus. So you can watch it over the weekend when you're not
1:19.2	watching sports. I popped on a couple podcasts this week on Wednesday. All hell broke loose with
1:25.4	the Celtics. So if you're expecting to hear my Celtics thoughts on this podcast, you don't need
1:30.7	to listen to them on this one. We already did it. Ryan Rassillo's pod, late Wednesday morning
1:35.8	Pacific time. We had it up. Me, Ryan Rassillo, Kevin O'Connor, Jackie McBollon, we broke
1:41.5	the whole thing down. And I honestly think we covered everything. I thought I'd have a moment
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