Haliburton’s Brilliant Game 4, the Reeling Knicks, and OKC’s All Grown Up With Zach Lowe

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Zach Lowe to react to Knicks-Pacers Game 4 (5:39). Then, they discuss Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers rising to the occasion in these playoffs (33:35). Finally, they talk about Bill’s top 15 NBA player pyramid, OKC-Timberwolves Game 4, and much more (58:26). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Zach Lowe Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Get anything delivered on Uber Eats. www.ubereats.com 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	It's the Bill Simmons podcast.
0:01.7	We have a ton of basketball coming up next with Zach Lowe.
0:04.5	We're going to talk about Nick's Pacers, Game 4.
0:06.7	The Tyrese Halliburton is a superstar game, or at least a really good star.
0:10.9	I wanted to use this opportunity at the top to talk to the Boston Red Sox owners.
0:15.9	They won the title in 2018.
0:18.4	They won the World Series, the fourth World Series of this century from
0:23.0	my baseball team. And then two years later, they traded Mookie Betts in the most cowardly way.
0:28.9	I don't remember if COVID had started yet or it was about to start or whatever, but all
0:33.1	the sudden he's out. They got five cents on the dollar firm. Ironically, the last guy and the team
0:38.8	available from that trade was Connor Wong, who was hitting 149 and came up with the bases loaded
0:45.1	in the Memorial Day game. And if he made it out, they lost the game. And of course, he made
0:50.0	it out because he was 0 for 18 and runner scoring position. I've been watching a lot of Red Sox
0:54.2	this year. I boycotted the team pretty much for the last couple years because I was so upset
0:59.3	about the Buki Betts trade. It was basically my version of Luca and Dallas and everything that happened
1:04.1	there. It was such an indefensible, terrible trade. Then he goes to the Dodgers and he's awesome for them.
1:09.1	And it really made me mad.
1:16.3	And I just decided I just need to take a break from the Red Sox.
1:20.0	And this year I got back into it because Christian Campbell came up.
1:26.0	Marcella Meyer was about to come up in Roman Anthony, who is the best prospect in baseball. And this Red Sox team, which I think they're over under and fando is 86.5.
1:32.1	My friend Kevin Hensch went on Brian Barrett's Off the Pike podcast Monday
1:37.2	and came in in the 17-minute mark.
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