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Mike Francesa with Bill Simmons

WFAN Daily

Audacy

Sports

3.8795 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Bill Simmons from The Ringer joins Mike to talk NBA Finals and their exclusive story on Bryan Colangelo. 

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0:00.0

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0:22.8

We get to what actually matters.

0:24.5

That's Bummer. just real conversation and believe me plenty of laughs every weekday morning we don't hold back

0:21.6

and we don't waste your time we get to what actually matters that's boomer and geo and you

0:25.9

can listen on apple podcast Spotify or wherever you get your pods well let's talk some uh finals uh with i'm

0:34.4

sure you got over it by now uh the fact that Brown and Rosea clanged every shot in game seven. So, but he's with us now, Bill Simmons. Bill, welcome. How are you? I'm not over it. You're not over it yet, okay. No, I'm not. No, that was terrible. Can we be serious for, let's be serious for a second here, and then we'll fool around. But let's be serious for a second. Tell me what you can tell us, shed some light, maybe even give us something we don't know, about this whole Colangelo thing, which was broken by the ringer, and tell me what you can if there's anything new or anything you can shed some light on.

1:12.9

There's nothing new I can really tell you.

1:15.5

It's a story that, you know, we've been working on for four months.

1:19.0

Right.

1:19.4

And just the writer got and tripped and started really chasing it and trying to figure out what the commonalities were between

1:27.9

these five Twitter accounts that had all these things in common and eventually how they may or

1:33.5

may not have tied to Brian Colangelo and you know as as we covered in the piece we approached

1:41.2

the sisters about two of the accounts and then wanted to see what would happen to the other three.

1:47.0

And after we kind of alerted them that we knew about these two accounts, the other three went dark.

1:53.0

And that's when we started to wonder, all right, what's going on here?

1:57.0

But, you know, we still don't know. We're still waiting to see what the explanation is for all the different ways that these five accounts seem to be intertwined with Colangelo.

2:08.1

It's the biggest story we've had at the Ringer.

2:11.4

It's also, I think, one of the weirdest stories.

2:14.3

I think it's really kind of unparalleled, like the Monte Teo catfish stuff and just...

2:20.5

Gotcha.

2:20.7

It's a really strange story.

2:22.5

I think people were just kind of riveted by it.

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