Jeter and A-Rod Save the Celts, the Jokic Moment, and LeBron’s Retirement Ploy With Kevin O’Connor and Jovan Buha

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Kevin O’Connor to discuss the Celtics avoiding elimination with their Game 4 victory over the Heat and how the next couple of days might affect Boston’s offseason (1:44). They also crown Nikola Jokic the best player in the world (35:38). Then, Bill talks with Jovan Buha of The Athletic about the Nuggets-Lakers series, LeBron James’s ambiguous comments on the possibility of retirement, Lakers offseason decisions, and more (1:01:35). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Kevin O’Connor and Jovan Buha Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, the Celtics made it one game longer than the Lakers.
0:05.7	I'm going to good mood for once.
0:07.8	That's next.
0:08.8	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast that we're going to put up a new rewatch
0:12.1	of us on Monday night.
0:14.0	We did last days of disco, an absolute classic late 90s indie.
0:19.4	This was one for us, but I also think it was one for a lot of people out there.
0:23.8	It is a movie that became a cult movie and then a little bit bigger than that.
0:27.0	It's actually hitting with the next generation too.
0:29.4	So Mia and Sean Finese and Chris Ryan broke it down.
0:32.7	You can go check it on that feed.
0:34.2	On Sunday, we're going to be doing a prestige TV podcast right after episode 10, the season
0:41.7	finale of succession.
0:44.1	Stay tuned for that as well.
0:46.2	If you check out the ranger.com, we'll be doing a lot of succession content this week,
0:49.8	including best season finale is ever a ranking of the best succession episodes ever.
0:54.9	Yeah.
0:55.9	A lot of stuff.
0:56.9	We're going to be doing a lot of succession stuff on this podcast on Thursday.
0:59.7	So stay tuned for that coming up.
1:01.6	Kevin O'Connor and I are going to talk about the Celtics fighting off death in Miami.
1:06.4	And then Yovon Buhah who covers the Lakers for the athletic and we have a little backstory
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