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Coming this Tuesday is the Ringer's third annual NBA

Palusa celebrating the tip-off of the 2019-2020 NBA season.

Make sure you're subscribed to the Ringer's YouTube channel so you don't miss our day-long live stream including the

premiere of the new season of NBA desktop, the fourth installment of our take-country series with a surprise

twist, the unveiling of the Bill

Simmons's Laker's Wine Bottle team and a live Ryan Rousillo podcast to go along with

so much more. Again you can check all that out at YouTube. All Odds, part of the Ringer Podcast Network. We have our big, our gigantic,

are spectacular. NBA preview, we're going to go over odds, over-under's everything.

Division odds, rookie of the year, MVP with the degenerate trifecta, but first I had to bring on the podcaster I had to bring on

the pod father himself you know him he's the world's biggest NBA hole hoops junkie

mark my word someday he's to write a book about basketball. It's going to be huge.

Bill Simmons, thanks for jumping on.

I hope they don't edit out where you called me the podcaster and then had to correct yourself to the

podfather.

I think they should leave that in.

All right, leave it in.

Let's bring it in.

You're technically podcaster. Listen, people know you as the podcaster, but they also know you as the podcaster,

but they also know you as the guy who has an MVP vote. This is very underrated. I think we talk about it a little bit, but you have a vote for the most valuable player in your favorite league.

It's pretty spectacular, isn't it? You could gush about it a little bit.

I've had it all decade and unfortunately most of the time I'm right before the

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