Kyrie Irving on Leaving LeBron, Boston's Future, Summer Rumors, and Empowered Players | The Bill Simmons Podcast (Ep. 378)

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons sits down with Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving to talk leaving Cleveland, changing perspectives, empowered NBA players, summer rumors including the fresh-pressed Kawhi-to-L.A. Lakers, the 2017-18 season, recovering from surgery, 2018 NBA Finals, Boston next season, Uncle Drew, playing basketball in prosthetics, and more (1:40). Then Bill talks with Sean Fennessey about the new horror film 'Hereditary' [SPOILERS] (1:05:40). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.2	her redditory after that. So first pro jam.
1:40.5	All right, it's Friday afternoon. West Coast time. Just when you think the NBA gets quiet,
1:46.4	she stuff's always happening two hours before Kyrie Irving comes in. Quiet Leonard comes out.
1:51.4	He wants to get traded. Just never ends. This is just the NBA now. It's 12, 12 months
1:56.3	year, 365 days stuff happening. Yep. This is the part of this. Yeah. Shane Bay offseason.
2:01.6	Last summer, you were in the middle of it for like six, seven weeks. When it's happening and you're
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