NBA Finals Angles With David Jacoby and Kevin Wildes. Plus, Jon Bernthal’s Return to the Pod.

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by David Jacoby and Kevin Wildes to discuss Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals, Jimmy Butler’s 3-point attempt, and having trouble rooting against Steph Curry and the Warriors (1:42), before talking about the best daily sports show fodder, why the Cowboys are still America’s team, NBA expansion, how the league would look if it adopted a relegation format (17:43), Half-Baked Ideas, Finals predictions, and more (41:54). Finally, Bill is joined by actor Jon Bernthal to discuss his role as Wayne Jenkins in HBO’s ‘We Own This City.’ They discuss meeting Wayne Jenkins, working (and arguing) with David Chase, wild stories from the set, filming ‘King Richard,’ being a sports dad, and more (1:04:13). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: David Jacoby, Kevin Wildes, and Jon Bernthal Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, going to talk to my old friend Kevin Wilde,
0:03.5	Dave Chikoby about the NBA storylines, whether the Cowboys
0:07.9	or the best sports talk fodder we have and a whole bunch
0:10.8	of other stuff and then John Burr Thaw as well.
0:12.6	It's all next.
0:14.0	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast that we're
0:16.0	put up a new rewatchables on Monday night.
0:18.6	It was a special episode.
0:20.3	We went through all the reader emails, suggestions for new
0:24.9	categories for the podcast and then me and Chris Ryan and
0:27.4	Sean Phenathy went through them, picked the ones we liked and
0:31.0	kind of it was like a selection show.
0:32.5	It was fun though.
0:33.0	I had a good time doing it.
0:34.0	So you can hear that.
0:35.0	And then on Wednesday, we are doing a second episode.
0:38.6	We're going to do Copland, Ray Leoto passed away last week.
0:42.0	It's our second favorite Ray Leoto performance.
0:44.1	So in a good movie in general, the anniversary is coming up.
0:46.5	Our men have already had the anniversary is coming up this
0:49.0	year, but we're doing that Wednesday night.
0:51.8	So stay tuned for that.
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