Bill Simmons on the Return of the NBA

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Larry is joined by The Ringer’s Bill Simmons to discuss social activism within the NBA bubble (13:21), the history of racism in the league and era-defining players (38:38), and what a championship means in this unorthodox season (41:43). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Bill Simmons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everybody. This is Larry. Well more you're listening to Black on the air.
0:09.6	Thanks for putting me in your cue. I still don't know how to describe what it is.
0:18.4	Thanks for listening I guess. It's good enough. We have Bill Simmons joins me today.
0:23.8	Bill and I catch up now and then on my pod it's a lot of fun. For those of you that aren't familiar.
0:29.0	He of course is the head of the ringer says company and we chat mostly about basketball
0:35.7	but some of the stuff that's happening with social justice and all that kind of stuff.
0:39.8	And we always have fun conversation. So thanks Bill. He's joining me for today's conversation.
0:44.0	Some you know right now to mainly about sports. It's mainly about basketball. But you know there's
0:50.2	the cultural stuff in there too. So I know I have that bin diagram of fans or like Larry.
0:56.1	I love you man but when you start talking about your Lakers and sports I don't know. And I get it
1:01.4	and I appreciate you saying that you know it's I understand and by the way Lakers won last night.
1:07.2	Very happy about that basketball season just started. Lakers beat the Clippers. Who knows what's
1:12.6	going to happen this season. It's this truncated COVID season that is going to be very bizarre.
1:18.4	I mean at the end of the day the Lakers do win a championship. It's still a championship. It's
1:21.7	still a banner. I would be very happy. But it's going to be very interesting and I was commenting
1:26.9	last week about how you know the NBA has really gone. I mean beyond the call of duty with
1:36.7	their support of all the social justice issues. Black Lives Matter and all that stuff. I mean
1:42.2	beyond the call of duty not only is Black Lives Matter everywhere like on their shirts and on the
1:46.8	court and everything. PSAs, that kind of stuff. Public support. You know I know that's great. I
1:53.8	mean I think the George Floyd thing really opened up a lot of people's eyes to the issues and the
1:57.9	NBA and mainly because it's mostly Black I have to say you know maybe feels certain type of
2:04.6	responsibility to speak out about it or to be on the record for it or to come out and be in front
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