Boston Gets Clocked, Round 1 Predictions, and a Mega-Mailbag With Chris Ryan and Joe House

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 119 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Chris Ryan and Joe House to react to the 76ers extending the series against the Celtics, the Knicks taking a 3-2 lead against the Hawks, and the Spurs eliminating the Trail Blazers to move on to the conference semifinals (3:13). Then, they predict the outcomes for the rest of Round 1 and take a look at the NBA's anti-tanking draft lottery proposal (31:36). Finally, Bill and House answer some mailbag questions (01:02:29). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Chris Ryan and Joe House Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo #ULTRACourtside could get you closer to the game! https://michelobultra.com/courtside MICHELOB ULTRA® COURTSIDE ’25 to ’26. No Purchase Necessary. Open to US residents 21 plus. Begins on October 1, 2025 and ends on June 30, 2026 Multiple entry periods. See Official Rules at https://michelobultra.com/courtside for free entry, entry deadlines, prizes, and details. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast brought to you by Fandul.
0:09.2	We are also brought to you by the Ringer podcast Network where I put up new rewatchables.
0:14.1	On Monday, we did Ghostbusters.
0:16.9	First time ever we did that one.
0:18.3	It was me and Chris Ryan and Van Lathen. That one you can watch on Netflix. All the movies that we're doing for basically the next 10 weeks are all going to be available on Netflix, including in May a bunch of comedies. And we actually got them to license something. I'm not sure which ones we're doing out of these. But I know what we're doing next Monday because it's going to be there, something about Mary.
0:38.3	So that's available on Netflix in May.
0:40.3	They're going to have Animal House, Borat, 48 hours, Tropic Thunder,
0:45.3	splash, Tootsie, just a slew of them.
0:49.3	So when May hits, go check it out, and we are going to do them all through may and then june moves into
0:56.2	from hell month which is the month i'm the most excited about and rewatchable sister i'll explain
1:00.9	more when we get to june but uh there's something about barry monday yeah um legata which is our
1:09.9	narrative series that we're doing episode five dropped dropped today. It is, I think,
1:13.4	a seven episode series, but please catch up on that if you haven't been listening to that.
1:18.5	Don't forget about Todd McShay, did a bunch of great NFL draft stuff. He has his two
1:23.1	early mock draft newsletter that went out, I think today. And then Sean Fentasy, who was on this podcast
1:30.3	on Thursday, he's doing his projections newsletter as we try to ease into newsletters a little bit more.
1:37.0	I like newsletters. I wish my fingers still worked. That would have a newsletter. Coming up on this
1:41.5	podcast, me and Joe House and Chris Ryan, we recorded right after
1:47.7	the three Tuesday night playoff games. And then we go in a time machine. House and I did a mailback.
1:54.3	I had so many mailback questions. I had to rip through them. So House and I did that actually
1:58.3	before the Tuesday games. So it's going to be me, see our house, basically live right after the games. And then we go backwards in time
2:04.1	a few hours. And we're doing a mailbag with Joe House. So that's the podcast. We're
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