Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 131 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons sympathizes with Mavericks fans after the report that Kyrie Irving will miss the remainder of the season with a torn ACL (0:00), before he is joined Peter Schrager to discuss the NFL combine, Matt Stafford remaining with the Rams, Aaron Rodgers’s next team, several QB-desperate teams, possible scenarios at the top of the NFL draft (8:55), as well as worst-situation NFL franchises, newly optimistic teams, the Bengals' quest to pay all four of their star players, and more (36:20). Finally Bill talks with Wesley Morris about the Oscars (01:07:35), before remembering the great Gene Hackman (01:45:06). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris Producers: Kyle Crichton and Chia Hao Tat Get almost, almost anything. Order today in the Uber Eats app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bill Simmons podcast before we get to the pod. I want to talk about Kyrie Irving
0:03.8	and the Dallas Mavericks in this crazy situation. Kyrie out for the year, Tours A.C.L.
0:09.4	It came out today. And Kyrie is, I've had a roller coaster ride with over the years where
0:14.0	didn't really like him on Cleveland. LeBron showed up. Really liked him. Didn't like him as much.
0:19.5	Came to my favorite team. was all in, it couldn't
0:24.8	ended worse, became probably my least favorite basketball player, goes to Brooklyn, that goes
0:30.3	terrible, goes to Dallas, you guys are so stupid. And then over the last two years, or last maybe
0:35.6	a year and a half, I really grew to like him as a basketball player.
0:39.3	I like how he talked about everything, how he took some responsibility.
0:43.7	It was like everything I wanted from an athlete.
0:45.6	I really liked watching him.
0:47.4	And I grew to respect and like him as a player.
0:50.4	And they make this Luca trade.
0:52.9	It is the least popular, most shocking, most indefensible trade in the history of the
0:58.2	league.
0:58.5	It's getting worse by the day.
1:00.2	The fans are just so angry.
1:02.9	They are like scorn lovers multiplied by 100.
1:06.0	They raise the season ticket prices this week.
1:08.1	Everybody goes nuts again.
1:09.5	This is the angriest fan base that we've
1:12.1	had in a while. And here's Kyrie, who's, by the way, they're putting crazy minutes on him. He's in the
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