A Westbrook Debate, NBA Sleepers, Unbreakable Records, and LaMelo Sliding Doors With Ryen Russillo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 108 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss NBA playoff seeding and Round 1 sleeper teams (2:45), Russell Westbrook tying Oscar Robertson’s record for the most triple-doubles in NBA history (26:00), All-NBA teams and a stats deep dive (47:00), the best “unbreakable” NBA records (1:07:00), burning NBA questions, and more (1:34:45). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Ryen Russillo Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you know that Fandole Sportsbook is the official sponsor of the Bill Simmons podcast?
0:04.1	It's true. That's where we get all the lines that you're about to hear when we talk about
0:08.2	playoff odds, things like that. Go check it out. Great action, same game, parles. They're always
0:12.7	innovating new bets. They even created a, this is 40 bet that I created for them. Fandole Sportsbook,
0:18.4	the official app of the Bill Simmons podcast. We're also brought to you by the ringer.com as well as
0:23.6	the ringer podcast network. We're launching some pods this week. So I'll give you more details
0:29.1	on Tuesday and on Thursday. We have some good stuff coming. We never stop here. We're always
0:34.5	going to be innovating. We're always going to be coming up with new ideas. The rewatchables
0:38.5	is coming to Monday night. We did lethal weapon too. It's available on the showtime app right
0:43.1	now if you want to, if you have any, you want to watch it for free. But one of the most important
0:47.3	action movies ever broke it down. Me, Van Lathen, Chris Ryan, and then a week from now,
0:52.3	the first rewatchables that we've done in person in 15 months. And these are the state we picked
0:59.5	the gigantic movie. So stay tuned for that. One of the five biggest movies we've done in that feed
1:04.0	since we launched it. So there you go. Coming up, Ryan, we're still and I, it's time. We're starting
1:10.6	our Sunday night NBA podcast a week early. There's just too much going on. Little twist just for this
1:15.6	week before we get in the playoffs. We're still is going to host this, not me. So when we come back
1:20.1	after pro jam, Ryan and so will be driving this. But first, pro jam.
1:25.7	Trying something a little different where I'm going to host Bill's pod on a Sunday, massive prep,
1:50.9	a lot of rundown stuff back and forth. We are taping at seven Pacific time. So Laker's
1:56.5	sons is just about to tip off, which has impact on seating, which I think plays in a way we want
2:02.1	to start with this, even though Phoenix is 2-0 against the Lakers this year. The first game, no,
2:06.4	Anthony Davis, that game, no, Anthony Davis, LeBron. When I look at the seating and kind of starting
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