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The Ringer NBA Show

Early Season Assessments With Bill Simmons and Tom Haberstroh (Ep. 155)

The Ringer NBA Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by recently departed ESPNer Tom Haberstroh to give his thoughts on the Cavs' lacking defense (18:00), potential Boogie Cousins trades (30:00), and re-drafting the 2017 NBA draft (42:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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podcast this week with Chris Ryan, an indie Greenwald about the fugitive. You

0:38.7

find that man. Oh yeah. Download that podcast subscribe to the rewatchables

0:45.5

podcast feed. This one's important because we did a four-minute try and

0:51.0

figure out four-minute argument about what was the apex of Joe Pantley-Anneau's

0:55.4

career, which I guarantee has never happened on a podcast before that and a

0:59.1

whole bunch of other stuff. The rewatchables download that now and also don't

1:04.3

forget about my column on the ringer.com. This week I wrote about Blake

1:09.2

Bortles and the science of quarterback names and it's really dopey. We also did a

1:13.6

whole Ringer MBA revelations piece in which I wrote about Ben Simmons. So you

1:20.8

can find that in the ringer.com too. Coming up Tom Habersdrow, my old ESPN

1:25.1

teammate. We taped this for the BS podcast. I wanted to have mine for 20 minutes

1:30.0

and we ended up going for almost 50. So we ran the last 20 minutes of that

1:34.0

conversation on the BS podcast, but we're running the whole conversation right

1:38.6

here on the Ringer MBA show and exclusive. We've never done this before. I hope it

1:42.7

works, but it just seemed like the right thing to do because we did not want to

1:46.3

have a two-hour BS podcast. That would have been crazy. Nobody would be able to

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