Most Surprising NBA Player Leaps With Tim Legler, Plus NFL Holiday Picks With Joe House

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 130 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Tim Legler to check in on teams around the NBA before discussing the players that are better than you think, how the Celtics are similar to last season's Pacers, and more (3:17). Then, Joe House joins to make their Ringer 107 picks for the week (01:37:03). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Tim Legler and Joe House Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Don’t settle for just any insurance when there’s State Farm. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast presented by the Ringer podcast network where I put up a new
0:10.6	rewatchables episode on Monday night.
0:12.7	It was me and Van Lathen and Chris Ryan talking about F1, a 2025 movie that we did in
0:18.1	2025, second one of the year.
0:20.1	We also did sinners earlier in the year. I think there's only five movies we've done in the same year they came out in the nine-year history of the rewatchable. So we did Get Out. We did Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. We did Top Gun Maverick. There might have been one other ones. This is the fifth of the sixth one, but I really love F1.
0:40.1	I think it's a great sports movie.
0:42.8	And it's a genre that has increasingly not churned out, like the high, high-end sports
0:49.8	movies.
0:50.1	I was thinking about this because any given Sunday was on Pluto.
0:53.2	Yeah.
0:54.7	Yeah, I was checking out Pluto.
0:56.2	I'm not going to apologize.
0:57.6	Any given Sunday was on.
0:59.3	And I was thinking about that incredible run of late 90s,
1:02.9	basically like from 94 all the way through the late 90s into the early 2000s,
1:07.0	when just like awesome iconic sports movies.
1:09.6	And we're just not making them in the same way anymore.
1:13.5	If we make them, they're either small scale or we've run out of ideas for them.
1:16.8	I don't know what's going on.
1:17.7	But anyway, really enjoyed F1.
1:19.7	Enjoyed Brad Pitt.
1:20.6	Enjoyed everything.
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