Giannis Trade Advice, Duncan Vs. Kobe, Ohtani Vs. the Babe, the Frugal-ish Yankees, and Life After ‘First Take’ With Max Kellerman

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 154 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Max Kellerman to talk about the struggling Clippers and Anthony Davis (3:20). Then, they give Giannis trade advice before discussing the topics Max just missed talking about (40:33). Finally, they talk about life after ‘First Take’, boxing, and much more! (01:51:13). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Max Kellerman Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Get Gameday Deals all season long only on Uber Eats. Order Now. This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Don’t settle for just any insurance when there’s State Farm. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast is brought to you by the Ringer podcast Network,
0:10.0	where you can find a new episode of the rewatchables.
0:13.0	We put up last night, Rocky 2.
0:16.0	It was the last of the Rocky movies.
0:18.0	We did Rocky 3, Rocky 4, Rocky 1, Rocky 2 somehow last. But it makes
0:24.5	sense because it's probably the most polarizing one, even though me and Chris Ryan Ben Layton,
0:28.9	we all love it. Unbelievable last 30 minutes, but we talk a lot about Stallone and boxing
0:34.1	movies and a really, really, really fun podcast. So you can check that out. You can
0:39.1	watch it, watch it on Spotify. You can listen to it wherever you get podcasts. So that's it.
0:44.5	Rocky, too. I'm not sure what's going to happen for next weekend. I will tip you off on the movie,
0:48.7	maybe on Thursday. Coming up on this podcast, Max Kellerman has been itching to talk sports for basically almost two years.
0:57.2	I think this is the first time he's been on a platform since 2023, just getting takes off.
1:04.0	We had a lot to catch up on.
1:06.0	He is going to be launching a new podcast with Rich Paul.
1:08.8	Next week, we'll have the feed.
1:10.0	I'll give you the heads up on Thursday's pod, but you can subscribe to it. It's launching next week. It's going to be called Game Over with Max Cumber and Rich Paul. And we're going to do it three days a week. I'm very excited about it. But it's great that Max. Always wanted to work with work with them really excited to to pod with them every
1:28.4	once in a while we had a lot to catch up on we talk about um possible yanness trades
1:34.5	a d what's happening in basketball uh goat arguments uh what's gonna happen in football this year
1:41.1	what happened with max at the end there at ESPN? We go all over the place.
1:46.0	And of course, hat to end with some boxing, because every time I'm with Max, I got to talk
1:49.2	boxing. So one other thing, the music box series is coming back on HBO. This week, we have a
1:55.5	great documentary about Jeff Buckley, directed by Amy Berg. It's awesome. So that's going to be on HBO on Thursday
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