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The Bill Simmons Podcast

A Rockets Gut Punch, Expectations for the Celtics and Pacers, and a Vegas Tourism Slump With Zach Lowe, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Zach Lowe to react to the Fred VanVleet injury and to discuss how it may have derailed the promising Rockets season (7:19). Then, Bill and Zach check in with the Celtics and the Pacers ahead of the season (01:12:11). Finally, Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey join to talk about what’s going on in Vegas (01:26:05). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Zach Lowe, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo 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

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0:06.2

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0:27.9

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0:30.5

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0:34.3

We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where I put up a new rewatchables

0:38.5

on Monday night. We did Airplane, one of the funniest movies ever made, one of the most influential

0:43.7

comedies ever made. Yeah, we talked about that and a whole bunch of other things with special

0:47.6

guest Bill Hader, who absolutely loves this movie. And we dove into not just all the great things

0:54.0

about this movie,

0:54.7

but what it meant to multiple comedy generations

0:58.0

and even little kids like me who saw it in the theater.

1:01.5

So Airplane, you can check that out.

1:03.6

You can also check out the Prestige TV podcast

1:05.6

where we're breaking down task every episode.

1:09.1

We did the third one on Sunday night. Just for the record,

1:13.0

we watched the episodes along with you. We only watch one. We do a podcast, then we watch the

1:17.7

next one because I hate knowing, trying to do those pods and pretending to make predictions

1:22.6

when you have already gone three episodes ahead. So we have a special email address that you can email us mailback questions for and a whole

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