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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Kevin Durant Returns, Part One (Ep. 345)

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by self-proclaimed "Basketball Guru" Kevin Durant to discuss the distance between players and fans (5:00), growing the game of basketball (11:00), Twitter's impact on the NBA (19:00), the desire to master basketball (25:00), the All-NBA team (30:00), the revamped NBA All-Star Game (34:00), the Rookie of the Year race (41:00), the LeBron partnership (48:00), and the start to another KD mailbag (53:00). You can find the official Ringer web store here: http://bit.ly/ringershop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Check that out coming up. Tate and I went to San Francisco on Monday night

1:51.8

And we taped a very very long podcast with the one and only Kevin Durant. This is

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