NBA Chatter With Jackie MacMullan, Plus a 2021 Oscars Breakdown With Wesley Morris

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 126 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Jackie MacMullan to discuss the NBA one year removed from the "Rudy Gobert Game" that paused the NBA season, the stress and fatigue from moving up the start date of the 2020-21 season, All-Star Weekend, NBA trade buzz, and more (2:00). Then Bill talks with Wesley Morris of the New York Times about upcoming Oscar nominations, figuring out what constitutes an "Oscar movie," the disruption of streamers, and more (55:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, if you like Taylor Swift, and why wouldn't you?
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0:10.8	They just did the second Taylor Swift album, Fearless.
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0:18.9	breaking down the challenge every Wednesday night.
0:21.2	The Ringer Dish podcast only on the Ringer podcast network.
0:24.4	We're also brought to you by theringer.com
0:26.4	as well as the Ringer podcast network.
0:28.8	We're coming up. We're going to talk NBA with Jackie McMullan
0:31.7	and movies and Oscar season with my old, old, old, dear friend,
0:37.2	Wesley Morris. That's all next first.
0:39.2	Our friends from Pearl Jam.
1:01.8	All right, we're taking this piece that is 130 Pacific time,
1:04.2	430 Eastern time Jackie McMullan is here.
1:06.4	The NBA comes back in full steam tonight.
1:08.9	We're going to talk about one year anniversary of, I guess,
1:12.5	the day we call it the Go Bear Game when everything changed.
1:15.3	Right.
1:16.1	It was leading up to the week before Boston's Sloan conference
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