An MLB Funeral With JackO, Plus LL Cool J on Kobe vs. Magic, Rap History, and Creating the GOAT

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 98 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by his old friend JackO to discuss the grim outlook for the 2020 MLB season and the ESPN 30-for-30 'Long Gone Summer' (2:45). Then Bill is joined by Grammy-winning rapper, actor, and entrepreneur LL Cool J to discuss historical hip-hop, the Rock the Bells brand, Kobe Bryant, Lakers greats, the original GOAT, set stories from 'Any Given Sunday,' and more (44:13). Finally, in an excerpt from the 'Flying Coach' podcast, Steve Kerr and Pete Carroll talk with NBA champion and coach Doc Rivers about growing up in Chicago, dealing with racism, and sharing stories with the Clippers team during the Donald Sterling scandal (1:30:24). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:07.2	zipper Cruder as you know things are a little bit up in the air for the upcoming football season
0:13.2	we don't know how many games we're gonna have we're gonna knock him know if fans are in the stands
0:16.8	if they're gonna be able to eat and drink anything but some things remain certain like our
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0:46.2	ringer podcast network where we are covering the return of the NBA it is happening things are going
0:55.7	things were announced we heard about uh we heard about the hotel situation
1:02.5	Disney hotels grouped into three different places grand destino is where the bucks lacers
1:07.8	raptors clipper Celtics nuggets jazz and heat are gonna be and then thunder 76ers rockets pacer's
1:13.8	maps net's grizzlies magic at the grand fluridian and then stuck at the yak club whatever the
1:20.4	hell that is blazers kings poke and spurs sons wizards there's been a lot of stuff that's come
1:25.3	out are they about the rule book that they sent out um i'm sure we'll be covering it
1:29.6	on the website and probably in the ringer NBA show with koc and verno as well
1:34.5	doesn't look like there's pets looks like 35 person parties uh for each team
1:40.6	and players can bring their own msuse or chefe or whatever but that would count as one of 35
1:45.8	it's all fantastic i'm just so excited that the NBA is uh is gonna be back coming up we're
1:51.8	gonna talk to my buddy jacko about the possible death of baseball which is is almost definitely
1:59.0	going away for 2020 and god knows what kind of shape it'll be and after that and we're also
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