Knicks Fever, Kawhi Problems, Draymond’s Defense, and Phoenix’s Ceiling With Ryen Russillo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 113 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss the Eastern Conference opening after some injuries, the Knicks taking a 3-1 lead over the Cavaliers (1:19), Hawks-Celtics, the strange Bucks-Heat series, and not feeling great about the 76ers even after sweeping the Nets (20:38). Then they discuss the Warriors' exciting Game 4 win over the Kings, Lakers-Grizzlies, and Dillon Brooks antics (48:05), before talking Clippers-Suns, Kawhi's injury, wondering about the Suns full potential, and more (1:11:51). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Ryen Russillo Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up just an absolute shitload of basketball. Oh, yeah, and Ricello. It's all next.
0:09.4	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where I put up a new episode, the prestige
0:14.6	TV podcast, meet Sean Fantasy, Joanne Robinson. We went to Norway for episode five of succession.
0:21.2	Not really. We went through our TVs, but we tackled a very, very, very entertaining episode
0:28.5	and we gave each other a half liter of blood. So there you go. You can go listen to them.
0:32.3	The prestige TV podcast. I have new rewatch was coming on Monday night. And I will just tell you this.
0:39.7	My co-host is Kyle Brent. You know what that means? You know what that means, my friends. We're going
0:44.6	back to either the 80s or the early 90s. It's going to be an action movie. Oh, yeah. So there you go.
0:51.3	Coming up on this podcast. The one, the only Ryan Ricello. And we have a lot of basketball
0:57.0	to cover. Let's get to it. First up friends from Bro. Jeff.
1:19.7	All right, tapeness. It's a little 4.7 o'clock Pacific time on Sunday. The Boston team
1:24.9	is hit the trifecta today. Bruins, Red Sox, Celtics, 3, you know, my dad is pumped. I just had a
1:31.4	giant cup of coffee. We're still all I'm ready to talk between two to seven hours about all the
1:36.3	basketball we watch over the weekend. The big thing for me, big picture. We're going to do
1:40.2	words, Kingslater, we'll do a little Lakers. We'll do all the injured stars. There's so many
1:43.9	storylines. I'm just looking at the East and the fact that even today we're taping this and
1:49.9	they've had press availability for the box. And they don't seem to know if Janis is playing tomorrow.
1:55.1	Or how healthy is what happened with his back? And you look at the Celtics who the bucks was the
2:00.5	big cooner they had to get over. You look at the next who thought, oh, it'll be great if we win
2:05.7	one round. And now they're like, whoa, we might win around and get to play Miami in round two.
2:10.9	It seemed that everybody thought was dead after the first playing game. And then if we beat them
2:14.6	somehow, they're the Celtics waiting for us who we already know we can play with. And we beat
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