Joker’s Wild in Miami, CP3’s Future, CNN Turmoil, and Streaming TV Chaos With Kevin Wildes, Dave Jacoby, and Matt Belloni

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by David Jacoby and Kevin Wildes to talk about Denver’s dominating win over the Heat in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, Nikola Jokic ascending to the indisputable best player in the league, and the road map for Miami to still win this series before predicting tomorrow morning's headlines. Later, they discuss the rumor that Phoenix will waive Chris Paul, what’s next for Bob Myers, and a wild day on social media for Zion Williamson (1:10). Then, Bill is joined by Matt Belloni from Puck to discuss Chris Licht’s failure at CNN, how the network can pick up the pieces, and which cable entities can survive the 2020s. They also discuss the current state of media and if the streaming bubble is starting to burst (67:20). The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out ringer.com/RG to find out more or listen to the end of the episode for additional details Host: Bill Simmons Guests: David Jacoby, Kevin Wildes, and Matt Belloni Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up finals game three.
0:03.3	Zion, Chris Paul, CNN, streaming.
0:07.0	Got a lot of action in this one, it's all next.
0:11.2	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network
0:14.5	where I had a podcast on Tuesday night.
0:16.8	If you missed it, this is the Wednesday nighter
0:19.5	because game three of the finals just happened.
0:22.2	It was a joke or thon.
0:23.7	Dave Jacobi, my old friend, Kevin Wilde's my old friend.
0:27.0	They both came on and we broke it down.
0:29.0	We talked a little Chris Paul, we talked a little Zion.
0:31.6	And then after that, Matt Bellany,
0:34.2	who has the excellent podcast, The Town,
0:36.3	and writes for Puck, we talked about Chris Lecht
0:40.6	and his ignominious exit from CNN as well
0:43.4	as everything that's going on in the streaming universe
0:45.4	right now, it is all next.
0:47.6	First, our friends from BroJip.
0:49.8	All right, taping this, it is 8.15 Pacific time.
1:12.8	Just watched game three of the Nuggets Heats,
1:15.7	and the NBA Finals by old friends, Dave Jacobi, Kevin Wilde's.
1:22.2	They're back, the three of us, we're going to do it.
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