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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Ep. 79: Joe House and Michael McCann

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons brings on Joe House to make sense of March Madness, top NBA prospects in the tournament (11:00), Buddy Hield's balls (14:00), the Pelicans shutting down A.D. (18:00), Spurs-GSW (22:00), Kawhi's athleticism (27:00), and House's new podcast with Geoff Shackelford, 'ShackHouse' (33:00). Then, Sports Illustrated's Michael McCann joins to discuss lessons from Deflategate (38:00), Goodell the sheriff (43:00), Gawker vs. Hulk Hogan (47:00), Erin Andrews (56:00), and the NCAA paying players (59:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.0

Subscribe to our newsletter at TheRinger.com. I think we've done, I don't know, five of them at this point. Just get it for God's sakes. Jesus. All right, we're off.

1:10.0

Oh, that's better. We're Monday Rowling.

1:12.0

Can you pick your house Rowling?

1:14.0

House is where Jamaica Rowling. House is in Jamaica. This is the first time we've done a podcast in Jamaica.

1:22.0

And we're going to have, I don't know, it sounds like about one third of a second of delay. So we'll try not to interrupt each other. House, were you able to watch college basketball while you're on the beautiful beaches of Jamaica?

1:35.0

I was. I got to see a ton of yesterday's games and yesterday's games, I think were superior to the, the Saturday games ended up all being chalk, right? Yeah.

1:45.0

Like yesterday had yesterday was.

1:47.0

Yeah, it had the biggest, the biggest collapse I've ever seen in a basketball game. I have no long-term memory anymore for just individual games. I watched it. Apparently there was a due game that was really bad. All the stuff.

1:59.0

I've just never seen a team fall apart like that, not being able to end down the ball, poor no, the Iowa. Oh my God. They show Kurt Warner celebrating and then it just fell apart in like a minute. Holy macro.

2:11.0

It looked like us trying to break a press in intramural basketball at the last 45 second.

2:17.0

Yeah, I don't know how much. The guy who got hurt, how much that rattled them. Haloran, whatever's name us.

2:25.0

But it was just insane. It was. And then the foul, they're down five. The guy drives in bounces off somebody, but not really they get the three point play. That's when I was like, oh no.

2:40.0

Because he didn't like the call.

2:42.0

Oh, it was a bad. I mean, you forget how bad the college basketball refs are until you watch March madness and you just see it over and over again, calls being blown. But, but man, that was tough. I think that's. I mean, granted round two.

2:56.0

It's not like they're going to win the title or anything, but just on the face of it, that has to be the most devastating collapse in less than 45 seconds in the history of basketball, right? The spurs heat, I guess.

3:08.0

But stakes were so much I was spurs heat, but it was a five point game. You know, it wasn't wrapped up.

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