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The Ringer NBA Show

One Thing for Every Team With Bill Simmons, Part 1 (Ep. 183)

The Ringer NBA Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.49.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor discuss one topic for each of the 30 teams in the NBA. In Part 1, they analyze teams with records under .500. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

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0:08.9

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0:18.0

We're also brought to you by one shining podcast, hosted by Titus and Tate.

0:21.6

I made an appearance on there this week. We talked about the 12 schools that should have better

0:27.8

college basketball programs. It's two parts. Kevin O'Connor is on the line. KOC,

0:32.8

what would be your number one school that you think you can't believe they're not better at

0:36.8

college basketball? I didn't hear your pod yet with them, but I wish there were school growing

0:44.1

up in the Boston area that was actually competitive. We had a little bit of a stretch in the mid-2000s

0:49.2

with the Jared Dudley years BC basketball. I wish there were a school in the northeast that was

0:54.2

great to get college basketball big up here. I think that's disappointing.

0:58.0

I don't want to step on the podcast, but two schools made the top 12 that let's just say are on

1:03.4

the Northeast. We addressed that issue. You could probably guess knowing where I went to college.

1:09.3

What one of those schools was. But yeah, when I was growing up, BC was way way up there.

1:16.0

They had little point shaving scandal that knocked them back a little bit. Then Patrick Guing,

1:21.5

which we talked about in the podcast, Patrick Guing, picking George 10 over BC. BC never really

1:26.1

recovered from that. If he had gone there, they're in the finals every year and it's a completely

1:31.3

different story. Do you think from a college basketball standpoint, you think the Boston sports

1:35.2

scene is just too cluttered? I don't even know if it would be a thing even if, like let's say if

1:39.7

BC were a top 10 team every year, I don't even know if they would really register on the radar

1:44.4

in Boston sports just because of the amount of coverage other teams get. I don't think they would.

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