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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Ep. 76: Chuck Klosterman and Jonathan Abrams

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons welcomes old friend Chuck Klosterman to discuss March Madness, Ben Simmons's ceiling (8:00), capricious LeBron fandom (18:30), Curry's apex (29:00), a GSW–Kevin Love trade (37:00), moving the 3-point line (44:00), and Kobe's farewell (50:00). Then, Jonathan Abrams joins to promote his new book, 'Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution' (1:05:20). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.4

Yeah.

1:08.0

Clearing up for you. It's March Van this time.

1:12.4

The sports atheist Chuck Closterman is on the line. I don't know who he's rooting for in this

1:18.8

and say a tournament. Probably nobody, but probably everybody who you're rooting for. Well, let's see.

1:27.7

You know, as often as the case, partially because it drives so many people crazy,

1:34.3

I find myself kind of rooting for Duke again. Oh, I like that. I think this kid, Grayson Allen,

1:40.6

is just hilarious. It's sort of like if J.J. Riddick and Hope Solo had a kid and gave it up for

1:48.8

adoption to my gumbry burnt. He's got that, that, that, he did everything about him. And also,

1:57.1

you know, he's like, you know, I mean, all these stories about he's like the latest in this long

2:01.4

line of like, you know, Duke players that people hate. But he's kind of a different kind of

2:08.5

athlete, I think. And that one game against North Carolina, I think it was the second game.

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