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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Dame vs. Iverson and Embiid’s Inconsistency With Raja Bell, Plus JackO on Altuve, the Yankees, and VP Kamala Harris

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Raja Bell to discuss the ferocity of Damian Lillard’s game, stories from playing with Allen Iverson and Steve Nash, what a Lakers–Trail Blazers Round 1 playoff series would look like, searching for consistency from Joel Embiid, and much more (3:43). Then Bill talks with his buddy JackO about the MLB, Giancarlo Stanton’s recent hamstring injury, Jose Altuve’s hitting slump, the St. Louis Cardinals’ troubles with positive COVID-19 tests, and more. They also discuss Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate for the 2020 presidential election (1:06:07). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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podcast this week sound only with my computers adjust charity and 10 questions with Kyle Bryant which caused a lot of budgets this week you didn't earn Rogers interview and got picked up by a bunch of outlets.

1:31.0

So all that's happening I did two rewatchables this week one last Mohicans on Monday with Chris Ryan and then the other one bad boys with Logan Redock and then Nathan so you can check those out as well coming up we have Rajab Bell.

1:48.0

New addition to the ringer couldn't wait to have mine he was so good on Monday with Logan Murdock on the ringer NBA show that I just got jealous and I had to have mine my podcast I can't let Logan have all the good things.

2:00.0

And then my buddy Jacko my old college roommate he comes on from time to time to talk about sports of politics so he is coming on as well I have some bad news once again I had a recording script we're now in month six of

2:14.0

of this whatever the F is going on with our lives that our country I have managed to screw up recording all kinds of ways one time I forgot to plug anything into my microphone so I was just doing a podcast there was no

2:30.0

chord attached to the microphone multiple times I've screwed up the actual audio out output on my zoom I've forgotten to press record that happened this time I recorded everything with Raja and Jacko and this is the first time I don't really know what happened maybe the plug was

2:52.0

all the way into the zoom I'll tell you what I didn't do though was check to make sure when I was talking that the green light was going up and down.

3:00.0

I'm losing my mind this I think this is like the seventh recording miss have I'm averaging one a month basically not good not where I want to be so anyway we had to use my my zoom audio for this so I'm not going to sound as as fantastic as I normally do I apologize I'm sorry I don't know

3:20.0

what I'm going to do is I'm going to be able to do this and tell you all right let's bring in our friends from Pro Jam.

3:24.0

All right Raja Bell is here he's in a remote location in the United States I put them away from a family vacation because we have so much

3:51.0

going on new addition to the ringer you can hear him on Mondays with Logan Murdoch the pod this week was excellent I want to start by stealing a point you talked about on your pod because I thought it was essential I was super jealous of it I wish I thought of it myself I didn't you came up with it but I want that into it you were saying damn

4:13.0

reminded you Kobe Bryant with everything that was happening here these last couple weeks but how he carried himself how he rises to challenges how he feeds off little rivalries with other players and stuff and I really appreciate it the analogy because normally you compare point cards to point cards you compare centers to centers you compare white guys to white guys like we're always like pigeon holding our comparisons.

4:39.0

And when you said that I was like holy shit he's right that game is the modern Kobe so go into that let's talk about it yeah he just.

4:48.0

I you know knowing Kobe the way I did and you know having played against him as much as I did you know I see this I see a lot of the same personality kind of treats in in game when he's on the court like he he carries himself with the with an edge at all times and even if Kobe was your friend.

5:08.0

There was an edge there was there was a you know don't get too close to me tonight like we can talk when this game is over type of attitude right and I see that using you know how to James pours I think it comes to

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