NBA Draft Questions, Harper vs. Fox, and the USMNT’s World Cup Ceiling

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2026

⏱️ 129 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Tim Legler to preview the NBA draft. Then, Anthony Dabbundo joins the pod to recap the World Cup matches so far, including the USMNT’s impressive 4-1 win against Paraguay, and discuss many other topics related to the tournament. (0:00) Intro (2:27) NBA draft questions with Tim Legler (01:02:42) Harper vs. Fox (01: 23:57) Favorite Giannis landing spot (01:33:13) World Cup talk with Anthony Dabbundo Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Tim Legler and Anthony Dabbundo Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Brought to you by PayPal. Learn more at paypal.comThe Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.2	where it is from Hell Month on the rewatchables.
0:44.7	We put up Hand That Rocks the Cradle this week.
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1:12.3	So you have all that to look forward to. All those movies are on Netflix, by the way, as well. I'm going to be on Netflix on Sunday night with Zach Lowe. We might have a mystery third with us as well. So probably 5 p.m. 6 p.m. E.T. range will be going live for an hour and a half, getting you ready for a big NBA week that's coming. Speaking of, Tim Legler is coming up in one second. We're going to be
1:16.6	talking about the draft, what we learn from the finals, how does that help team building, predictions,
1:21.7	all kinds of things. And then I'd love the World Cup. I've watched a ton of it, so I made Anthony
1:26.4	Dubundo come on, and we talked about USA's semifinals chances, final eight chances, some sort of chances.
1:35.1	Things are better.
1:35.7	Things are optimistic.
1:36.6	A huge game coming on Friday.
1:38.8	I hope you're going to be out at a bar or somewhere fun watching it.
1:42.4	So we talked to Dubundo, and that is the podcast.
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