Chuck Klosterman on Brooklyn’s Dominance, Fandom, Sports Fixes, and UFOs

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by author Chuck Klosterman to discuss Damian Lillard’s future after another Trail Blazers playoff exit, how player movement has shaped today’s NBA, radical ideas to “fix” various sports leagues, UFOs and ghosts, documentaries, and more. Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Chuck Klosterman Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.6	Fennissine Chris Ryan on Monday night. We did the 48th anniversary of Raiders of Lost Ark,
0:34.8	only one of the greatest movies of all time. We have another podcast premiering on my book of
0:39.9	basketball 2.0 feed. It is called What If The Lindbyes Story. It's done by the ringers,
0:45.7	Jordan Khan. I was not involved in this podcast other than a little behind the scene stuff, but
0:50.9	we're doing this as another season of Book of Basketball seven parts.
0:54.4	It just goes into everything. It's one of the most shocking deaths in the history of sports.
1:01.8	It changed the trajectory of the 80s and the NBA. It changed the trajectory of the Celtics.
1:07.0	It became a turning point for the cocaine panic in America. There's a lot of unanswered
1:11.6	questions about it that we dive into. I think this podcast is really, really good. It premieres
1:16.4	on June 9th, which is this week. It will be on the Book of Basketball 2.0 feed. I hope you're
1:22.4	subscribing to that already. But if for some reason you're not, check it out. Those pods will be up
1:27.3	once a week for the next seven weeks. Usually I've been starting with the NBA at the top of these
1:33.2	pods. It's a slight low here. I thought maybe we could get away with just putting up a me and
1:38.5	Chuck pod without knowing anything that happened tonight in the basketball games. Right now I'm
1:43.2	taping this. It is 4.30 Pacific time. Hawks Sixers Game 2. It's just about start. Clippers Jazz Game 1
1:50.0	is about to start. If there was ever a day to maybe just say screw it, we'll cover all this stuff
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