An All-Star Gimmick Worked? Plus: Slam Dunk Fixes, Houston Atrocities and an NBA Crystal Ball With Ryen Russillo | The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 122 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss the joys of NBA All-Star Weekend, the new All-Star Game format, why it worked, the dunk contest, things to watch for after All-Star Weekend, NBA scuttlebutt, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.6	you can find the rewatchables we are launching the flawed rewatchables a special series on Tuesday night
0:59.6	be ready for that. I'll give you an ice cube is in the first movie that we're doing. So there you go.
1:05.2	The book of basketball podcast comes back Monday night as well with game four of the 2009 NBA
1:13.8	finals Orlando versus the Wakers the most underrated choke job of this century.
1:18.4	We're going to be breaking that one down as well coming up Ryan Rassillo is back with me all the way
1:26.1	through the finals and into the first two weeks of free hc every week on this podcast usually on
1:32.0	Sunday nights this will be the first one lots to discuss first our friends from pro jim.
1:48.0	All right we're taping this at 844 pacific time Sunday night Ryan Rassillo is here for the first
2:02.7	of many Sundays in a row as we had all the way through to the playoffs and the finals and even
2:08.0	free agency and something semi magical happened tonight I don't know what it means long term
2:14.0	I don't want to overreact to it but the e-lam ending named after a guy named Nick e-lam who created
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