Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 172 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons talks about five guys he’s observing for the two major Game 6 NBA playoff games on Friday night (3:54). Then, Bryan Curtis joins to discuss the current state of sports programming before Bill’s dad hops on to reflect on the Celtics’ playoff collapse and to check in on Boston sports (22:38). Finally, Jazz owner Ryan Smith joins the pod to talk about the second pick in the 2026 NBA draft, rebuilding the team, the growth of Utah, and much more (01:43:22). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Bryan Curtis, Bill’s dad, and Ryan Smith Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Book a new kind of stay at HolidayInn.com The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:01.0	Some follow the noise.
0:03.0	Bloomberg follows the money, whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion-dollar
0:08.0	swings.
0:09.0	There's a money side to every story.
0:11.0	Get the money side of the story.
0:13.0	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
0:16.0	The bill The Bill Simmons podcast is brought to by a Fandul.
0:27.6	We're also brought to by the Ringer podcast Network.
0:30.5	I put up a new rewatchables on Monday night.
0:32.3	We did Tropic Thunder.
0:34.1	We're doing comedies all month on Netflix.
0:36.0	You go to Netflix, they have a million comedies.
0:37.8	We've done a bunch of them on the rewatchables already, including Fletch, along came Polly, Ghostbusters,
0:46.1	48 hours. The list goes on and on. And we've also done this month. We did Tropic Thunder.
0:53.4	We did Ghostbusters. We did that this month. We did Tropic Thunder. We did Ghostbusters.
0:55.6	We did that last month.
0:56.8	We did, there's something about Mary.
1:00.0	And this Monday we're doing Borat, which is an absolutely hilarious movie.
1:04.5	I've watched it once.
1:05.2	I have to watch it again before we record the episode.
1:07.6	But just laughing my ass off.
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