LeBron's Odds, Dallas's Doncic Heist, and Kawhi to Boston Talk | The Bill Simmons Podcast (Ep. 381)

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🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to talk about Sal's World Cup bets, the odds on LeBron's next team, and gearing up for legalized gambling (3:48). Then Bill is joined by Jonathan Tjarks to talk about the 2018 NBA draft, including the Mavericks' trade to get Luka Doncic, an unfortunate landing spot for Mo Bamba, and an interesting Phoenix Suns roster (27:55). Finally, Bill calls up his dad to talk about Celtics first-round draft pick Robert Williams, the Red Sox, and why Kawhi Leonard would be bad for the Celtics (55:55). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.6	way to hire if you missed the wringer dot com last night. We did a live NBA draft show on Twitter.
0:49.3	We had like 13 14 people in there, including myself. And in real time, we watched the first 27
0:55.7	picks of the draft. There's some really funny moments in there, including when we found out
0:59.6	Don Chitch was getting traded Dallas and our maps fans went nuts. And when all of a sudden the
1:04.5	sixers were trading bridges and Grayson Allen getting taken by Utah and me me being angry about it,
1:10.4	but then being angry at Grayson Allen. And I went through the gamut of emotions because I thought
1:15.5	he was going to the Celtics. Then somebody good fellow to the Celtics. We talked about all that.
1:19.0	It was good. I thought it was the best one we've done of all those live shows. We're really starting
1:22.9	to figure out that format. It's really fun to do the second screen. And it seemed like people
1:26.9	enjoyed it. So check that out as well as a bunch of draft content that we had today. We had
1:31.8	columns or copy chief, the chief Craig Jayne Craig gains wrote a piece about grading or ranking
1:39.2	Wosha's passive aggressive, not actually tweeting out the pick, but kind of sort of tweeted out. He
1:45.5	did that. We winners and losers. Mark Titus is writing today. Brian Curtis wrote about the Wosha
1:52.0	effect and the draft, all kinds of stuff on there. So check all that out on the ranger.com.
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