Part 1: Booker Torches L.A., the T-Mann Game, Gobert Issues, and a Kemba Trade With Ryen Russillo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 68 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 1 victory over the Clippers, Devin Booker's superior shot-making, speculation on Kawhi Leonard's injury, as well as the Clippers’ Game 6 victory over the Jazz on Friday night (3:30). They also issue some “playoffs apologies” to a few players including Nicolas Batum, Reggie Jackson, Trae Young, and Paul George (24:00), before discussing the Celtics trading Kemba Walker and draft picks to the Thunder for Al Horford, Moses Brown, and a 2025 second-round draft pick (56:30). 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	What if the Lin-Bias story hosted by Jordan Ridderconn is the ringer's latest narrative podcast?
0:05.6	You can find new episodes every Wednesday on the Book of Basketball 2.0 feed.
0:09.8	Here's a quick trailer.
0:12.8	You've heard his name, Lin-Bias, 1980's phenom, second pick in the NBA draft,
0:20.2	and then cocaine, tragedy. One of the most shocking deaths in sports history.
0:26.2	35 years later, Bias' legacy is still making an impact.
0:31.6	From Spotify and the Ringer podcast network, this is What If, the Lin-Bias story.
0:37.0	I'm Jordan Ridderconn.
0:42.2	We're also brought to you by TheRinger.com as well as the Ringer podcast network.
0:46.9	Hope you're enjoying What If, the Lin-Bias story on the Book of Basketball podcast,
0:51.0	and I hope you're enjoying TheRinger's Watchables because we have another one coming on Monday night.
0:56.5	It is the 40th anniversary of one of the great comedies of all time, Stripes.
1:03.4	Yeah, 40 years old. We had to go way back.
1:07.0	Ninety-one. This is about it. We did Raiders and we did Stripes in the last couple weeks,
1:11.9	but we had to. Those are two icons.
1:14.0	So that's coming up on TheRinger's Watchables on Monday night.
1:17.0	On Tuesday, we have a very special live lottery show that we're going to be doing
1:22.6	Simulcasting and on Greenroom. Spotify's new live audio app.
1:27.4	Check details on TheRinger Twitter and on my Twitter feed as well to tell you when we're
1:32.4	going to happen, but we'll probably pop on before the lottery and we'll be reacting live.
1:36.1	I will have some special guests and then we'll be rerunning that on the Bill Simmons podcast.
1:42.0	So if you want to get in there live, listen to how we make the sausage. You can do that on Tuesday.
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