Luka’s Strange L.A. Ride, a New York Sports Drought, Lost NBA Nicknames, and a Big Mailbag With Max Kellerman
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Ringer
4.4 • 30.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 132 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Bill Simmons podcast is brought to you by Fanduil Sportsbook. |
| 0:10.1 | We are also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network. |
| 0:12.4 | I put up a new rewatchables on Monday. |
| 0:14.0 | We did crazy, stupid love. |
| 0:15.7 | Next week, we're kicking off CR Month on the rewatchables. |
| 0:19.9 | Chris Ryan, all Chris Ryan movies, movies |
| 0:22.3 | that Chris Ryan loves, and we're starting on March 2nd, 6 p.m. E.T. on Monday, live on Netflix. |
| 0:29.2 | We are doing Sicario. People have been calling for this. Really since we started the podcast, |
| 0:34.6 | it's one of CR's favorite movies. Me, CR, Sean Fantasy. So we are doing |
| 0:39.0 | Sicario, and then the next one we're going to do is Fargo. So those are the first two, |
| 0:43.8 | Sicario, Fargo. So catch up on both of those. You can watch Sicario, Netflix, and you can watch |
| 0:50.5 | watchable on Netflix and get it on Spotify, wherever you get your favorite podcast, which I hope is the rewatchables of this one. Or any of our great ringer podcasts, including wait a second with Jason Cepseon, which we launched last week. I was the first guest. Chris Ryan is on this week. They're talking about Prince Edward and the Epstein files. This is quite a podcast. Really excited about this one. Seems like people really like it too. Coming up in one second, Max Kellerman, who is on Game Over with Rich Paul, that's a podcast that we added to the Winger Podcast Network a couple months ago. It's great. It's Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Max and I are going to, every once in a while, we just like to get together and talk about |
| 1:28.5 | sports for over two hours long and then we can't believe how long we went. So we're going to talk |
| 1:32.9 | about a whole bunch of things. I'm going to do a mailbag with Max. It's all coming up next. |
| 1:36.4 | First, break, our friends from Pearl Jam, and then Max Kellerman. The Bill Simmons podcast is |
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| 2:20.3 | Right. You've done it off. Now I have, yeah. That was the last little piece was podcast. Boxing announcer, TV host. But that's all old news. Studio host. Yeah, yeah, done that. Yeah, now podcaster. We were talking before we started about the difference in doing this stuff now. You're doing Game Over with us with Rich Paul. And you will tell your heart and not your heart in your Jalen Brown-Luca thing. And then I'll tell you what my thought is on that. People will sometimes say I'll have a take on the show. So Rich Paul and I went to the Laker Celtics, Pat Riley game. We're sitting catty corner to Pat Riley because we're in Rich's seats, right? Yeah. And, and, you know, I'm watching Jalen Brown and I'm watching Luka Dachich. And it is clear to me. It's clear. It's not hard to see. Jalen Brown's better than Luca Doncha. She's a better player. |
| 3:27.8 | And I say that. And then someone sent me an article that someone said, you know, it's like acted as though that's a crazy take. |
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