Cam to the Pats, 'The Decision,' and the 2010 Redraftables With Ryen Russillo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 115 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss the Patriots signing QB Cam Newton to a one-year deal (2:09) before revisiting a defining moment in 2010: LeBron James and ‘The Decision’ (50:56). Finally they look at the 2010 NBA draft and discuss some of its subplots, draft comedy, and NBA legends before redrafting the top 14 lottery picks (1:16:09). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.0	podcast tomorrow morning Monday morning. If you listen to this on Monday, the Bacarys Sowers podcast,
0:56.4	he's going to be going twice a week. He's going to be talking about the election, about 2020 in
1:03.0	America. He's going to have awesome guests. This first podcast, guess who's one of his first guests?
1:09.4	The Sean Watson. Yeah. Yeah, he's coming on. People like that. Big guests,
1:15.2	subscribe now to the Bacarys Sowers podcast. Very excited to have him aboard. And I have high hopes for
1:21.4	this one. So check that out. Coming up, Brasillo and I are going to get in a time machine and go back
1:27.2	to the wonderful year of 2010, specifically the summer of 2010. When everything changed in the NBA,
1:35.6	we're going to talk about the decision. We're going to talk about a crazy free age to year and we
1:40.5	are going to do a redraftables of what turned out to be really a jinx draft. That's all coming up
1:48.4	first, our friends from Pro Jam.
2:10.0	All right, we're taping this. It's 5 p.m. Pacific time right before we went on. My son called
2:15.4	me all excited. I didn't know what happened. It was because the Patriots assigned Kim Newton
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