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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Lakers/LeBron/Bubble Stories with Jared Dudley and Ryen Russillo. Plus a 2021 NBA Free Agency Primer

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo and 2020 NBA champion Jared Dudley to discuss the Lakers' title win, how it felt to leave the NBA bubble, LeBron stories, appreciating Rajon Rondo, the anticlimactic Battle for L.A., young NBA talent, and more. Then Bill and Ryen speculate about 2021 NBA free agency, what teams will have to do to combat the defending NBA champions, Finals media coverage, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up, I'm going to talk to Ryan Rosillo and Jared Dudley, who just won an NBA championship

0:05.1

about life in the bubble and being teammates with LeBron and a whole bunch of awesome stuff.

0:09.4

This is really good. And then we're still going to talk about free agency and a lot of NBA stuff.

0:14.2

This is a long podcast. Get ready. We're also brought to you by the wringer.com and the

0:18.4

Ringer podcast network. New rewatchables went up on Monday, the Martian, me, Van Lathen,

0:23.4

Sean, Fantasy and Chris Ryan. That is about one of the earliest since it happened movies that

0:30.3

we've done. I think we've only done like four or five movies from 2015. But yeah, the Martian,

0:35.9

really good movie. We tackled that one. Coming up, Jared Dudley, for the first hour with me and

0:42.8

Rosillo and then Rosillo and I just keep going and going and going until Nephi Kyle finally said,

0:47.4

hey guys, stop. Please stop doing the podcast. So we stop. It's all coming up first. Our friends from

1:02.2

the United States. All right, taping this on a Tuesday, Ryan, Rosillo is here. Jared Dudley is here.

1:17.2

NBA champ just back from the bubble. What's it like? What's it like to be out of the bubble?

1:22.0

Man, I love you guys seeing that picture. It's me, Kuzma, Brian AD. We get out of the plane.

1:27.4

We walked down. The movie Shawshink Redemption, when it gets out of prison in this ice, it was just

1:32.5

like, you know, to get out, the air felt different. We just like we're sitting there for like a minute,

1:38.4

just so key and then this being outside, man, I never been to prison. I'm not saying it was

1:44.2

like prison, but it felt like you were isolated from the world to be able to get it out, man, it was

1:48.0

and then had to be a champion and had a trophy. Nobody feeling I've had. What, what is the point?

1:53.6

You were with there three and a half months? Three and a half months, 95 days.

1:58.8

So what day do you start looking around going, oh my God, we have two months left.

2:06.6

See, it got off to our rocky start because they weren't prepared. The hotel wasn't prepared for

2:11.2

that many people when it came from the food. Like the food was off for early on for Disney,

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