Best NBA Late-Season Story Lines, Plus Theo Epstein’s First Appearance

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons runs through the biggest subplots to watch heading into the NBA playoffs (2:45) before talking to three-time World Series champion baseball executive Theo Epstein about bringing the Boston Red Sox their first World Series win since 1918, bringing the Chicago Cubs their first World Series win in more than 100 years, Red Sox fans vs. Cubs fans, MLB's strikeout epidemic, experimenting with making changes to baseball, and more (31:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.5	I'm going to talk at the top about the 10 NBA storylines.
1:04.4	I am the most excited for us.
1:05.8	We head toward the playing games.
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