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Here is the plan for today. This is an awesome show. We got Kevin Clarker. He talks to football with him. Also actor, Thesspy and Jay Harrington. He was nice enough to say hello to me when I first moved to LA and was hanging out at the Santa Monica Equinox. That's the Malibu phase of my Odyssey out here. And I was like, who's this guy? And he's on SWAT. He's actually like pretty successful. And he's just a totally normal guy. He's on Massachusetts. So I just want to talk to an actor that's.

That's not that it's a caprio level that's at the level below that and what that career is like and everything. So that's going to be a lot of fun. And we'll do some life advice. I can't wait to do these ones with you a little bit later.

There's been a demand for more Kyle. I don't know if that's Kyle forwarding those specific emails to me. But I don't think Kyle is not a seeker of attention. He is not. I would never do that.

You wouldn't. I actually that's why bringing it up. So I just wanted you Kyle to know that or no, I want the audience to know that your request for more Kyle has been acknowledged. So you know what we should do is we should do a Kyle specific life advice where it'll be younger dudes instead of me being like that's a crazy thing.

Some of these college kids, if I had gone a different path, I'm old enough to be their dads. If I were really weird in high school. You know, some of you guys to be a few years into your 401k already. So, but that's not the case. That is not the case. And look, if you're 16, you have a kid in high school. It doesn't necessarily mean you're weird.

So all the guys that have kids at 15 and 16 years old, shout out to you. So there you go. Big reminder Monday night. I think it's going to either drop or it'll be in a Tuesday morning. Maybe we're taping it Monday night. Bill Simmons house myself big NBA preview, including the over unders for all the teams.

I did somebody did say man, a lot of these numbers look pretty low. It's like, yeah, that's because we have less games in the regular season. So I was afraid I might pick 30 overs. I'm like, I just don't see it. I think they're better than that. I think they're better than 42 wins. Like, no, no. All right.

So again, make sure you subscribe to this podcast bill Simmons podcast. We're going to do a massive NBA preview. Look, we do every year. All right. I want to start with just a little quick opening. It's not even a rant. Really, this isn't a massive thing here because I've been hammering the rants this week. But on the James Harden trade stuff.

It was pretty funny. See in the timeline. Now, you know, two weeks ago, I had said I thought Simmons was available in trade. The reason I said this because that's what I'm hearing.

And, uh, Shom said Simmons is available. And then Shom's immediately obviously Darryl Mori, the GM now will not GM the president of the sixers, old brand still technically the GM.

It was clear based on the tweets on Thursday that it was, you know, the sixers have breached out to, um, and us said it, you know, the whole deal. And now what we're saying that, you know, Simmons is not available. Okay. First of all, Darryl Mori's never going to say a guy is available.

He doesn't owe that to any of us. That's not the job. The job is to answer to his ownership to make the best deal for his team. But those that I don't want to mean like, hey, those that are pretty plugged in.

There's a difference between the news that you get. And then the stuff that you hear and the rumblings now for a while have been that Simmons is available on hard and trade. Okay. And that's why I said it and feel comfortable about it.

But I'm not going to do on a podcast. Hey, Simmons is going to be traded for hard because things change and you don't really know. And by the way, Houston with two years of control on harden. They have more options than maybe you realize so hard and can sit and demand just Brooklyn.

And as we've seen, I don't think the Brooklyn thing matched, you know, team for team. But we've also seen historically trades where it didn't look like it matched and they just sort of happen. I think that's where agents get involved a little bit like do me a favor here. We'll figure out a little bit later.

There's also agents that will straight up threaten a front office and go, if you don't do this for my guy, I'm going to make sure none of my clients ever signed with you. And if your agency is powerful enough and represents the right people, you can get away with some of that stuff. So there's a lot of stuff that goes on that I'll never know about.

And that's that's where I thought this whole thing was important. Now, woj. This morning on ESPN was talking about how this deal has been expanded to include potentially more teams, which I think makes sense.

Now, some of this is strategic. Sometimes you get a piece of information. You're like, why is this person sharing this information with me? Okay, well, they're doing it maybe because they want this information out because it helps them. But you got to be around long enough to understand that you'll get info and be like, I don't really want to share this.

I'll tell you three years ago when Kyrie got traded to the Celtics, I got a source who's been terrific on stuff was like, this Kyrie thing's not happening. Winning Saul is everything. He's going to come back and Kyrie's different, which was a really early prediction on, unknown Kyrie.

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