NBA Lottery Winners, GSW’s Next Move, Philly’s Slide, Cam Newton and Taylor Swift with Raja Bell, Kevin O’Connor, Ryen Russillo and Nora Princiotti

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 132 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Raja Bell, Ryen Russillo, and Kevin O’Connor discuss Tuesday first few days of NBA playoff basketball, and some of the top draft prospects, before reacting to the 2021 NBA Draft Lottery (4:35). Then talks with The Ringer’s Nora Princiotti about the approaching 2021 NFL season, how empty NFL stadiums could affect on field play, the “battle” for the Patriots starting QB position, the live music void in the pandemic, music documentaries and more (1:34:15). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.4	board series during the NBA finals where all the winners will compete for a share of 50k cash,
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0:51.6	going to win day one and then my team tailed off. Poor Zingas got kicked out. Still recovering from
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1:09.5	the Ringer podcast network where we launched a couple new podcasts recently, including 10 questions
1:14.4	with Kyle Brandt. You can check out the ringer and B.A. show where we are trying to react to as many
1:18.6	of these games as possible. And that's it. Coming up, we taped a lottery show today, earlier today.
1:28.3	It was me, Roger Bell, Kevin O'Connor, and Ryan Rassillo. And we went on about an hour before the
1:34.6	lottery. We broke down all the playoff stuff and then went right to the lottery as it was
1:41.3	happening and tried to decipher what it meant, what it meant for Golden Stage Kago and things
1:45.5	like that. So that is happening. And then the ringer's norprinciadic comes on just to talk about
1:51.6	the upcoming NFL season, a couple of things to watch and then some out and up into a
1:57.2	Taylor Swift conversation because she is a major tailor file. So that is the podcast for today.
2:02.7	I left a little bit open here at the top because just in case this Lakers Blazers game was going
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