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The Bill Simmons Podcast

NBA Lottery Karma Rankings, Jaylen’s Future, and a Blistering Wolves-Spurs Series With Nick Wright

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Nick Wright to check in on the Celtics by reacting to Jaylen Brown’s controversial Twitch stream and discussing a possible Giannis trade (3:02). Then, they preview the rest of the Timberwolves-Spurs matchup and discuss LeBron’s Ringer Top 100 NBA player ranking before ending with their 2026 NBA Lottery Karma Rankings (31:58). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Nick Wright Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Brought to you by PayPal. Learn more at paypal.com/paymonthly The 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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0:00.0

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0:36.0

The Bill Simmons podcast is brought to by Fandall.

0:38.8

We're also brought to by the Ringer Podcast Network where I put up a new rewatchables on Monday.

0:43.7

We did There's Something About Mary, which is also on Netflix.

0:47.3

It was me and CR and Sean.

0:49.7

The OG crew had a great time.

0:52.4

A lot of fun discussions.

0:53.6

You can go check that out on Spotify and Netflix, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:57.0

For next week, just giving you the heads up now.

1:00.5

We did Tropic Thunder.

1:02.0

So that is coming on Monday.

1:03.5

I think it's on Netflix.

1:05.0

I'm pretty sure that's why we want to do it.

1:07.5

But pretty easy movie to find.

1:10.0

Almost 20 years since it came out and a really fun one to revisit. So that's happening. If you like narrative podcasts, we put up the last episode of Lagata. That went up on Tuesday. If you missed it, please go check it out. Great one to Power Walk, driving the car with. Really, really good. Really proud of this

1:28.3

one. So check that out whenever you have a chance. Coming up on this podcast, the one and only Nick Wright is here.

1:34.7

We're going to talk about the San Antonio Minnesota series. We're going to talk about my Celtics

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