Clippers Revenge, Houston’s Dilemma, Simmons Trades, and Seth Meyers Returns, With Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, and Jonathan Tjarks

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 136 minutes

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The Ringer’s Raja Bell and Logan Murdock react to the Clippers’ merciless win over the Mavericks, some heated exchanges on the court, Paul George’s postgame comments about being “checked out” in the bubble, the Nuggets pulling out a win vs. the Jazz, and more (2:18). Then Bill Simmons talks with The Ringer’s Jonathan Tjarks about the Thunder-Rockets Round 1 playoff series, what the 76ers should be looking to do next, the Nuggets-Jazz series, 2021 NBA draft prospects, and more (38:35). Finally, Bill is joined by ‘SNL’ royalty and TV host Seth Meyers to talk about running a late-night show during the pandemic, his 13 seasons at ‘SNL,’ going back to host the show, NFL excitement, the passing of their friend and colleague Maura Mandt, and more (1:28:13). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.8	movie possible. If you want to vote, if you want to vote with the greatest teen movie of recent
0:55.6	history was all that stuff. It's good stuff all around coming up a little bit of a Hodgepodge
1:02.1	podcast today at the very top Logan Murdock and Rajabell who you would normally hear on the Monday
1:09.0	Ringer NBA show and they're great together. They're going to do an instant react on Dallas
1:15.5	Clippers game five. They're basically subbing for me just for the first 15 minutes of the pod.
1:21.7	So that'll be the first 15 minutes that you won't hear my voice. You'll hear Logan and Rajab
1:27.2	and you'll enjoy it because they're really good together. And then we're going to have
1:31.8	me talking to Jonathan Charkes from the Ringer about OKC versus Houston, Ben Simmons trades and
1:39.1	then what the lottery looks like for 2020. And then my old friend Seth Meyers. Yeah, he's I can't
1:47.2	remember the first time I had him on the podcast, but it's been a while. It was due for him to come
1:52.6	on and we just catch up about a whole bunch of things. So really fun podcasts ahead first our
1:57.9	friends from Pearl Chip. What is popping? This Logan Murdock of the Ringer NBA live show. I am
2:25.9	here with the curator of vibes. The former NBA player. The former Piedmont resident. The former
2:36.6	amateur wrestler. The now. The media mogul Roger Bell. What is popping, bro? How you doing, man?
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