Part 2: Philly Chokes, Hawks Fever, and a Bucks-Nets Postmortem With Ryen Russillo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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In Part 2 of the two-part Sunday podcast, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss another 76ers playoff exit as the Hawks win Game 7 to head to the Eastern Conference Finals. They discuss the fundamental problems Ben Simmons brings to the Sixers, a lackluster (yet confident) Trae Young performance, and more (3:00) before discussing why this may be the strangest postseason in recent memory (50:45). Then they discuss the Nets' Game 7 overtime loss to the Bucks, Kevin Durant’s heroic effort to save the series, Giannis Antetokounmpo's impact, and more (1:08:45). 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.
0:06.2	We have a new show called No Skips with Jinks and Shay.
0:08.8	And then we discussed the most unskippable albums in hip hop history.
0:12.3	New episodes drop on Thursdays only on Spotify.
0:15.5	We're also brought to you by TheRinger.com as well as the Ringer podcast network where you can
0:19.9	find a great podcast called The Ryan Ricella podcast which is only going up twice this week because
0:24.4	we stole him for a special Father's Day 2 part or part one is already up. Part two we were hoping
0:31.0	Sixers Hawks game seven would be fun. Our hopes were correct and we're going to talk about that.
0:38.2	We're going to talk about the Net's Buck series and a holy shit Eastern Conference finals
0:45.9	Hawks Bucks. It's on next first project.
1:07.9	Alright, for Sillo is still here. We just watched the death of the process.
1:12.4	The process was given last rights about 20 minutes ago. We're taping this. It is almost 8 o'clock
1:19.6	Sunday night Pacific time. The process passed away about 15 minutes ago as Ben Simmons was subbed out
1:26.4	with about two minutes left with his team down four points. One of the most shocking game seven
1:32.2	losses I've ever watched that wasn't shocking at all. You texted me during the game.
1:36.9	I think early in the third quarter and you were like I'm convinced Philly is going to lose or
1:40.8	I really genuinely think Philly is going to lose something like that and I completely agreed with you.
1:44.9	Atlanta wins even though Trey Young comes within one field goal of matching Kobe's iconic six for
1:50.8	24. He goes five for 23. Bog Donridge gives him nothing and yet this becomes the Kevin Herder
1:58.4	game and more importantly the this was Ben Simmons's last game ever for the Philadelphia 76ers. He
2:04.8	will not be on the team next year is my prediction. What's your biggest takeaway?
2:08.0	Two things and I have a million things so I'm going to try not to go forever because I know we have
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