Crying MJ, UFC 249, Ominous NBA News, and 1997 NBA Finals RewatchaBulls With Ryen Russillo | The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 134 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to talk about Episodes 7 and 8 of the ESPN documentary series 'The Last Dance' (2:30) before discussing UFC 249 (41:40) and Adam Silver's call with NBA players regarding the possible return of an NBA season (1:04:40). Finally they revisit the 1997 NBA Finals between the Chicago Bulls and the Utah Jazz, where Michael Jordan would win his fifth NBA title (1:25:07). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:20.8	as family barbecue. You might know them Jake and Jordan. I know there's no baseball right now,
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1:44.1	The baseball barbecue that podcast you can subscribe now and app on on Spotify and it's launching
1:50.5	soon coming up. We're still on our going to talk about episode seven eight of the last dance.
1:55.4	We're going to talk about UFC 249. We're going to talk about a pretty discouraging week in NBA news
2:04.0	that we really want to dive into. And then the rewatch of balls tackling the 97 finals. That's all
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