Best NBA Unicorns, Plus Sports Card Boom 3.0 With Kevin O’Connor and Mike Gioseffi

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Kevin O'Connor to discuss NBA "unicorns" past and present, as well as the unusually high number of unicorns in today's NBA, including LeBron James, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid, Kevin Durant, Nikola Jokic, and Luka Doncic (2:30). Then Bill talks with The Ringer's Mike Gioseffi to discuss the sports card market's historical ebbs and flows, the impact of auction sites like eBay in the early 2000s, as well as today's increasing demand for football and basketball cards, and more (1:09:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Cousin's out, wrote a book. It's called You Can't Lose Them All. It is available on Amazon
0:05.7	and all other places you would order a book today. His first book, Everett's about gambling.
0:10.8	It's a lot of war stories. I'm involved a couple of times. You can get the book right now. It's
0:15.5	called You Can't Lose Them All. Congrats to Cousin's out. It is available wherever you get your books.
0:21.4	We're also right to you by the ringer.com and the ringer podcast network. I did a new episode of
0:26.0	The Rewatchables last night Terminator 2, me, Van Lathen, Chris Ryan. This is probably the greatest
0:33.4	action movie of all time. We debate it. Certainly one of the greatest sequels of all time.
0:38.8	Very fun podcast to do. Speaking of podcasts, we are launching a new podcast this week. It was
0:44.2	called SportsCards nonsense. You can subscribe now on Spotify or Apple wherever you get your podcasts.
0:49.8	It can be twice a week. One of the hosts, Mike G. S. Effie, is going to be on later on this
0:55.1	podcast. SportsCards are having a moment. We're going to try to capture it and break it down
1:00.2	week after week on the ringer podcast network. Subscribe to SportsCards nonsense.
1:05.2	Coming up, we're going to talk to Koc about a whole bunch of NBA stuff. And then Mike G. S. Effie.
1:09.6	First, Pro Chip. Alright, Kevin O'Connor is here. We are officially one-fourth of the way
1:34.8	through this weird NBA season. Do you realize that? We're at the corner mark.
1:38.0	Yeah, recorded with Chris Vernon for the mismatch this morning. He alerted me. We're at the
1:42.4	corner mark. Somehow already. We're at the corner mark, but the Wizards have played 12 games.
1:46.3	So if that doesn't explain the season, I don't know what it does. There's some,
1:49.6	if you look at the standings, the Lakers aren't first in the West. That makes sense.
1:53.7	The Sixers aren't first in the East. It makes a tiny bit less sense. But that's not what we're
1:58.7	talking about today. We're talking about unicorns. I wrote a piece for the ringer in 2016, December,
2:04.3	did the unicorn rankings because at that point, we had Janus had entered the league and was
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