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The Bill Simmons Podcast

An NBA Power Poll, the Surprise Celtics, the Queen Conundrum, and Fake Trades Galore With Rob Mahoney

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Rob Mahoney to discuss all the NBA teams in a power poll before talking about their favorite TV shows of the year (2:54). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Rob Mahoney Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Get Gameday Deals all season long only on Uber Eats. Order Now. This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Don’t settle for just any insurance when there’s State Farm. 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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0:20.0

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0:37.0

The Bill Simmons podcast is presented by the Ringer podcast Network where we put up a new

0:40.5

rewatchables on Monday night.

0:41.8

We did shampoo 50 years later with Cameron Crow and Sean Fennacy.

0:46.4

And if you like movies like singles and Jerry McGuire and almost famous and say anything,

0:53.6

and you didn't think we could weave a 50-year-old rewatchable's movie in with all McGuire and almost famous and say anything.

0:58.7

And you didn't think we could weave a 50-year-old rewatchable's movie in with all of those movies and get a lot of good anecdotes and stories from the guy who directed those movies.

1:03.8

Think again, because this podcast was awesome.

1:06.5

Please go check it out.

1:07.7

Go check out our new Ringer podcast.

1:09.6

Game Over with Max Calumary and Rich Paul. We launched the first one on Monday. It's going to be Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I already making some news with the first one. But high hopes for that podcast. Really fun to work on. And I'm glad to have Max back talking sports. Glad to have Rich talking sports. Who knew Rich had so many takes? All right, then don't forget about our music box series. We had the Jeff Buckley documentary last week. We have one about WizKid coming this week. It's December 11th. It's about WizKid and basically the history of Afrobeats. It's really, really, really cool. Please check it out Thursday

1:45.7

night and then it will be available on HBO Max all week. Coming up on this podcast, Rob Mahoney,

1:53.6

who has someone not been on all season, but we made up for it by going for almost 100 minutes.

1:59.1

I threw a power pole at them from 30 to 1,

2:01.1

and we went through it, and we talked about every team. Just all kinds of questions, fake

2:06.9

trades, philosophical discussions. Rob was more excited about the Celtics than I am. We covered

2:13.6

it all, and it's all next. We're going to take a break. We're going to talk about we're going to talk about Pearl Jam. Oh no, we're not going to talk about them. They're going to sing for us and then we're going to bring in Rob Mahoney and I did all this for the NBA Cup. We can talk about the NBA Cup on Thursday. So Rob Mahoney next. This episode of the Bill Simmons podcast is presented by State Farm. Having insurance isn't the same as having State Farm.

2:35.7

It's like expecting a linebacker on the football field, but getting a line cook. Sure,

2:40.5

they both can handle the pressure when it starts heating up, but only one is stopping a touchdown.

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