Indy Steals Game 1 in OKC … WTF Happened? | With Zach Lowe

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe react to the Pacers stunning OKC in Game 1 of the NBA Finals (2:32). Then, they preview Game 2 and discuss fixes for OKC to turn the series around (30:31). Finally, they discuss the Knicks' coaching drama, who the new head coach could be in New York, and trade rumors (46:30). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Zach Lowe Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Get started today at HubSpot.com/AI 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 where I popped on the
0:06.0	Prestige TV podcast this week. We talked about The Better Sister, did rewatchables on Monday.
0:12.2	It was a really good one. We did Out for Justice, the Stephen's skull classic. I had a great time.
0:17.6	I think I'm turning this into New York month on the rewatchables because we're
0:22.0	doing Working Girl on Monday, which is a great movie from the 80s. Harrison Ford's in it,
0:27.9	Melanie Griffiths, Sigourney Weaver. It's a really, really, really good New York movie,
0:33.4	and just a good movie in general. It's dated in all the right ways. So that's coming Monday. So
0:37.4	you have the weekend to watch it. I think it's on Hulu or Paramount. It's dated in all the right ways. So that's coming Monday. So you have the weekend to watch it.
0:38.5	I think it's on Hulu or Paramount.
0:40.7	It's on one of those.
0:41.6	And it's all over the place.
0:43.5	You'll be able to find it.
0:44.3	So check out Working Girl.
0:45.7	It's a really good one.
0:47.0	And maybe we'll do New York month.
0:49.6	Lots of movies filmed in New York.
0:51.4	A lot of options left. You have to wait and see. Coming up on this
0:55.1	podcast, Zach Lowe and I decided to do a live stream right after game one of the 2025 NBA
1:04.1	finals. And we were assuming that OKC, who was nine and a half point favorites on Fandall,
1:09.5	that they were going to easily win,
1:12.0	and then game two would be the game.
1:14.3	That's not what happened.
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