NBA Ringz Culture, Wobbling for Wemby Trade Teams, and Week 17 Million-Dollar Picks With Van Lathan, Wosny Lambre, and Peter Schrager

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 114 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan to settle a disagreement about whether the Nikola Jokic hype is overblown (3:57), before Bill and Wosny look at the NBA teams who may benefit from making an early trade and tanking for a chance at Victor Wembanyama in the 2023 NBA Draft (36:09). Then Bill talks with Peter Schrager of NFL Network and Fox Sports about which NFL teams still have a reason to compete heading into Week 17, some matchups including Commanders-Browns, Giants-Colts, Patriots-Dolphins, Jets-Seahawks, Panthers-Buccaneers, Vikings-Packers, Steelers-Ravens, favorite underdogs, and more (1:06:25). Finally Bill gives out the Million-Dollar Picks for NFL Week 17 (1:49:11). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Van Lathan, Wosny Lambre, and Peter Schrager Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Check out the wringer.com for a bunch of our end of the year stuff movies music TV sports
0:05.3	favorite sports moments of the year written by our entire staff and also you can check out our
0:09.8	NBA player rankings which is I think the last time it was updated was two weeks ago but we're
0:15.5	gonna be diving into it in January including a possible trade value comp stay tuned
0:20.9	we're also brought to you by the wringer podcast network i put up a new rewatchables on monday we did
0:26.0	mission impossible fallout started next week it is one word movie month and we're doing an
0:31.8	action movie is the first one that's your only hint speak of the rewatchables we did victory
0:36.8	couple years ago um which I think the last 25 minutes of victory is one of the great sports movies
0:43.6	ever and might even be in like my top three ever for just rewatchability of any sort of sports
0:49.2	slash movie thing paylays a huge part of it he passed away and it has bumped like everybody else
0:55.5	when i was growing up it was allie and it was paylay and then it was everybody else that was it for
1:02.2	the seventies allie paylay drop off bringing your other athletes but those were the two and
1:10.0	you know watching a wide-rotor sports they started showing cosmos games it felt like such an
1:14.8	important moment when he came here it's like i'm like god paylays gonna play here in New York it was
1:20.3	great documentary about it that my friend michael david was involved with that uh is pin ran the 2006
1:26.4	blanket on the name but that was that was did a good job of capturing how much it meant that paylay
1:30.5	here um but it's funny he lives on for me because i watch victory all the time especially the last
1:37.2	25 30 minutes and he's such a big part of that movie and it's the perfect way to use a famous
1:43.2	athlete in a movie right we get to see him do all his soccer stuff he acts in a couple scenes
1:51.2	um but it's okay they don't they don't lean on it too much it's like just the right amount but
1:56.0	he's really there for like the star power and the charisma and the whole thing and uh so i feel
2:01.7	like just from that movie he's been in my life the last 40 years there was a good movie that
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