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The Bill Simmons Podcast

NBA Draftapalooza Part 2: Picks 1-6, Paolo to Orlando, and the Kings Surprise Everyone, With Ryen Russillo, Kevin O’Connor, and Steve Ceruti

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo, Kevin O’Connor, and Steve Ceruti to give their live reactions to picks 1 through 6 of the 2022 NBA draft. Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Ryen Russillo, Kevin O’Connor, and Steve Ceruti Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up, it's one of my favorite days of the year. It's the NBA draft. I love it so much.

0:06.1

I love it so much that we are going to do a four part draft of Paloza, extravaganza. This is part two

0:14.4

and it's all next. Let's do it. We're also wrapped up by the Ringer podcast network. If you missed

0:19.6

part one, go check it out. This is part two, me, Ricello, KFC, first project.

0:35.5

We're back for part two and it is 5.05 pm. The draft is about to start and we had a major bomb

0:50.9

dropped about 30 minutes ago. Woj reported in that Orlando is now back in on Palo potentially.

0:58.9

We don't know who's going to be drafted first where you're doing this in real time.

1:02.8

I can't see what happened. Can we believe anything anymore? I thought this was done. Now it's not.

1:08.1

No, I mean, I've been reporting for a few weeks now that it wasn't certain with

1:12.5

Judge Abari Smith going first to Orlando. There's still a possibility of a trade.

1:16.6

I mean, we'll see what happens here in the next 10-15 minutes or so. But I think for the Orlando

1:22.5

Magic, they've just been keeping everything close. The Jeff Welton, the guy running there

1:27.0

at front office has wanted to work in secrecy here. Ultimately, if they do draft, draft

1:33.0

Pollybank hero with the first pick, that doesn't necessarily mean that they keep him. It could

1:37.1

mean that that's where they get their leverage to get Houston to cough up additional draft picks,

1:41.6

more draft capital in the future to assure that they get their guy and it could just be one of

1:45.6

those types of draft night deals. A little different than Tatum Foltz because that happened before

1:49.6

the drafts. Right. But we could be having a leverage version of the Tatum Foltz thing. Exactly.

1:54.0

I think that's what they've been doing. What do you make of all this?

1:58.4

Well, I wondered, I always wondered if they thought Oklahoma City really liked

2:04.9

Chet, would they play it that they like Chet the most and try to grab a pick to move down.

2:11.5

The Houston part of it is weird because it feels like they need everybody. But I guess the

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