Saving 2020 Sports, Bored Quarantine Tales and the 2000 Redraftables (The NBA Draft W.O.A.T.) With Ryen Russillo | The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 148 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss when each sport could return and confront the possibility of no sports for the rest of the year (3:00). Then they list off the most bored things they’ve done during quarantine so far (28:45) before they revisit the shockingly disappointing 2000 NBA draft (65:28). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight's episode of the Bill Simmons podcast and the Ringer podcast network brought to you by
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0:13.2	delivers for seniors who can't venture outside. They're serving tens of thousands of meals daily
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0:24.2	Shifts for America, a coalition of restaurants and tech companies working together to provide meals
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1:41.3	We're also brought to you by TheRinger.com and TheRinger.com has network where we have not
1:46.0	stopped putting up stuff, including the rewatchables. We did Tommy Boyd put up
1:49.8	a Thursday night last week. We have total recon enemy of the state coming this week. We're also
1:56.2	going to be doing one more redraftables beyond the 2000 draft that we're about to do with
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