Part 1: Ayton’s Leap, Kawhi the Enigma, GSW Trades, and a 2018 Redraft With Ryen Russillo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In Part 1 of the two-part Sunday podcast, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss the Suns’ Game 4 win over the Clippers, Deandre Ayton’s importance to the Suns’ success, the uncertainty surrounding Kawhi Leonard, why Bill thinks the Clippers still have a chance, and more (2:30) before they revisit the 2018 NBA draft and discuss potential trades leading up to the 2021 NBA draft, Team USA, and more (44:00). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Ryen Russillo Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, I'm Shay Serrano and I'm Brandon Jinks Jenkins.
0:06.4	We have a new show called No Skips with Jinks and Shay.
0:09.0	In it, we discussed the most unskippable albums in hip hop history.
0:12.5	New episodes drop on Thursdays, only on Spotify.
0:16.0	We're also brought to you by TheRinger.com as well as the Ringer podcast network.
0:19.6	This is probably the final time we're doing the two-part Sunday gimmick with me and
0:23.0	Ricello.
0:24.0	I think I think starting next week, we can probably cram this into one podcast.
0:29.3	What we can't do today, too much to discuss.
0:31.7	We are taping part one before Hawks Bucks, a couple of hours before we're going to put
0:36.5	that up and then we'll do part two right after Hawks Bucks conclude.
0:41.5	It's hopefully it's a good game, but lots to discuss in part one with Western Conference
0:46.1	Finals and a whole bunch of other subplots.
0:49.0	It's all next first.
0:50.0	Our friends from Pearl Jip.
1:05.6	All right, we're taping this.
1:12.5	It is 4.15 Pacific time on Sunday.
1:14.9	Bucks Hawks is still more than an hour away.
1:17.2	We have no idea what's going to happen in that.
1:18.7	There's enough basketball to talk about right now that we can get going.
1:21.4	Ryan Ricello is here.
1:22.9	Last night, as the suns looked like poised for another playoff collapse during the
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