OKC’s Better, Jokic Isn’t Real, a Clippers Swoon, and Detroit’s Rise With Tim Legler, Plus Week 11 Picks With Joe House and Billy Gil

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 141 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Tim Legler to react to SGA and the OKC Thunder dismantling the Lakers (2:18). Then, they talk about Nikola Jokic’s resurgence, the struggling Clippers, and the most surprising teams this NBA season (32:42). Finally, Joe House and Billy Gil join to discuss NFL trends before making their Ringer 107 picks (01:22:49). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Tim Legler, Joe House, and Billy Gil Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Don’t settle for just any insurance when there’s State Farm. 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	I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do.
0:02.0	Dominate your finances.
0:04.0	Sunday morning, listening to questionable financial advice from the Fintock Bros on his social feed.
0:11.0	Drowning in green.
0:13.0	Scale, scale, scale, scale, scale.
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0:18.0	get some better money intel and save up for that new skateboard.
0:22.3	We're helping young people become money confident.
0:25.4	Search Barclay's life skills.
0:27.5	Barclays, make money work for you.
0:30.2	The Bill Simmons podcast is brought to by the Ringer podcast Network.
0:33.8	I have a new rewatchable's coming for you on Monday.
0:36.2	We went back to the 80s.
0:37.2	It's the 40th
0:38.0	anniversary of a very important teen movie. It's called Weird Science. It's written and directed
0:43.7	by John Hughes. It is a cable classic. Kyle Brandt has been demanding it for years. So we've
0:51.7	finally, finally pulled it off. It's quite a movie. It's one of those movies
0:57.1	that could come out in 2025 and maybe it would just be AI and a lot of the plot would be the
1:01.8	same. So weird science coming on Monday. You have the weekend to watch it. Coming up on this
1:06.9	podcast, Tim Legler is going to join us at the top. We're going to talk about Oklahoma City and Denver and whether they're starting to separate themselves from the rest of the league. We're going to do a whole bunch of basketball stuff. He's been announcing some games for ESPN and he has been courtside for some really good stuff. That's the top of the pod. And then Joe House and I are going to do Ringer 107 picks for week 11. We're joined by Billy Gill, who just joined the ringer a couple weeks ago, and we're going to spruce up the marriage with him and try to make some football picks. So as you can tell, I'm taping this before the Patriots Jets game, and this was the temp intro that we made just in case the Patriots rolled over the Jets, like we thought they would, and then I wouldn't have to come back out here at 830 and give five bullet points about, oh my God, I can't believe blank. Let's just hope the Patriots won by 20 by the time you listen to this. As for the rest of the podcast, we're going to take a break, Pearl Jam, and then Tim Legler. This episode of the Bill Simmons podcast is presented by State Farm.
2:03.3	Having insurance isn't the same as having State Farm.
2:05.7	It's like needing the protection, offensive guard on the football field,
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