A Loaded NBA Draft Debate, Wemby’s Finals Shadow, and Fun MLB Story Lines With Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Billy Gil

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 137 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by J. Kyle Mann and Tate Frazier to preview the NBA draft by looking at some of the top prospects before discussing the Spurs' ceiling this season (3:40). Then, Billy Gil joins the pod to discuss fantasy baseball leagues and preview the MLB season (01:16:59). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: J. Kyle Mann, Tate Frazier, and Billy Gil Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo The all-new Audi Q3: Made for the yes life. Learn more at https://audiusa.com/ The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast brought to you by Fandall Sportsbook.
0:09.0	We are also brought to by the Ringer podcast Network.
0:11.9	I put up a new rewatchables last night.
0:13.9	We did crazy, stupid love.
0:15.3	It was me and Van Lathen and Chris Ryan.
0:18.0	Had a great time.
0:19.1	It's all foreplay until next week when we kick off CR month,
0:23.4	all Chris Ryan movies that he loves.
0:25.3	And we're going to start with Sicario on Monday, 6 p.m. ET live on Netflix.
0:31.3	You can actually watch us do rewatchables in real-time live.
0:35.6	It's going to happen.
0:36.6	Sicario, me and Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessee. and can't wait for that. We also launched a new podcast last week that I forgot to tell you about on this podcast. I was actually the first guest of this podcast. It was called Wait a Second. It's hosted by our old friend, Jason Concepcion. And it dives into the things that you text your friends about, that you go, wait, what's going on?
0:57.0	What happened?
0:58.4	So last week we did surveillance.
1:00.8	We talked about the ring camera, Super Bowl ad,
1:03.0	and Savannah Guthrie's mom's house recording the outside,
1:07.3	even though she wasn't paying for it.
1:08.7	Basically, are we being watched all the time?
1:11.6	Was the conceit last week?
1:13.6	And each week, it's going to be some sort of topic that as you're reading about in the news,
1:19.6	you go, wait, what's going on here?
1:21.6	This podcast is going to work.
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