Nico’s Gone, Iconic Bad Trades, Baseball’s Comeback, Lane Kiffin, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and the Power of Boredom With Chuck Klosterman

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Chuck Klosterman to react to the Mavericks firing Nico Harrison months after trading Luka Doncic (3:04). Then, they take a look at a possible Anthony Davis trade before discussing parity in MLB, coaching in college sports, and much more (40:47)! Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Chuck Klosterman Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Get Gameday Deals all season long only on Uber Eats. Order Now. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast is brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network where you can find a new
0:04.4	episode of The Rewatchables that went up Monday night. We did Snake Eyes, which is a really,
0:09.8	really, really, really fun 1998 movie. Yet another awesome. 1998 movie directed by Brandon Palma,
0:16.1	starring Nick Cage. As Sean Fantasy said on the podcast, it was a safety off performance by Nick Cage.
0:23.4	He is just going for it the entire time.
0:26.0	Really fun movie.
0:27.4	So you can check that out wherever you get your rewatchables podcast.
0:32.8	Hey, I wanted to bring something back for 2026 for this podcast.
0:38.7	Obviously, I did this when I wrote.
0:40.9	I did this for the first couple of years of when we had this podcast on The Ringer.
0:46.2	And now I'm going to try to get it going again, maybe on Tuesdays.
0:50.9	But I wanted to bring the mailbag back.
0:53.7	I wanted to lean on the listeners for some
0:55.6	fun questions. And you can email us questions at BS Podcast 33 at gmail.com. Bspodcast 33
1:07.4	at gmail.com. Send them in.
1:11.6	I'm going to have somebody go through them.
1:13.1	Send me the best,
1:14.5	the best,
1:15.1	uh,
1:15.4	possibles.
1:16.6	And then I'll go through and try to make it a running thing either on
1:20.4	Tuesdays or Thursdays,
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