A Truly Sad Week in America, Plus the 2005 NBA Redraftables With Ryen Russillo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 145 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss the recent protests, both nationwide and in L.A., after the death of George Floyd while in police custody (1:45). They then speculate on salvaging the 2019-20 NBA season (41:45) and revisit the 2005 NBA draft and discuss some of its subplots, draft comedy, and NBA legends before redrafting the top 14 lottery picks (1:04:05). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight's episode of the Bill Simmons podcast on the ringer podcast network brought to you by zip-credor
0:05.1	We know things are gonna be a little bit up in the air here for the upcoming football season
0:08.9	We know it's we don't know if we're gonna be getting into games for a couple months
0:11.9	How they're gonna do tickets? How you gonna order food and drink or you be able to sit next to each other
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0:42.0	Together, we're also brought to you by the ringer.com and the ringer podcast network
0:46.8	Where we launched a new podcast recently. It's called higher learning with van lathe and Rachel Lindsay. They taped earlier today
0:53.0	About everything that happened this weekend. I thought it was really great. I'm so happy to have them here at the ringer
0:59.2	And I really highly encourage you to listen to that podcast. We are proud of it and have high hopes for it
1:04.4	So coming up we're still and I
1:06.8	This is basically a two-part podcast because we had taped the
1:10.8	2005 NBA
1:12.6	Redraftables on Thursday and
1:15.0	Thought on Sunday we would just put something here at the top that would lead into the redraftables and then
1:21.4	You know what happened over the last few days
1:24.7	So we talk about that at the top and then just a little bit about the NBA finally coming to a consensus with the
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