Tanking Reform, Playoff Sleepers, and Anthony Davis's Brilliance With Bill Simmons | Heat Check (Ep. 218)

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🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons brings on Haralabos Voulgaris and Jason Concepcion to discuss the trends of the modern NBA (3:09), the merits of advanced metrics (13:48), and how to fix tanking (34:17). Then they are joined by Justin Verrier to debate who belongs in the All-NBA first team (46:37), how much coaching matters (58:32), and the future of the post-trade-deadline Cleveland Cavaliers (69:14). Link — The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor on Takeaways From the Sloan Conference Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode, the Ringer MBA Show, on the Ringer podcast network is brought to you by
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0:36.6	My listeners can try it for free at zippercruder.com slash BS. Want to tell you about a couple podcasts
0:42.9	on the Ringer podcast network. We launched the recapables. First one went up today,
0:47.9	a awards slash recap of season one of Atlanta. We did that because every Thursday night,
0:54.1	right after Atlanta ends, if you like that show, and I'm guessing there's a little bit of
0:57.9	Ringer NBA show Atlanta overlap. And you should, if you're not watching Atlanta, I don't know
1:01.7	what's wrong with you. I really don't know what's wrong with you. It was a human being. But we did
1:06.4	season one awards right now on the recapables, Alison Herman, Mike Kapiters and host Amanda
1:12.1	Dobbins. And then on Thursday night, right after Atlanta ends on FX, we put the podcast up.
1:17.0	It's like a little post game show. 18 minutes breaks down everything that happened,
1:21.4	a couple of awards and then we're out. Let them be your buddies that you just watched at
1:25.1	Lanoeth. We have billions coming up and Westworld are the second and third shows we'll be doing.
1:30.8	There's a lot of rumors that me and Mallory Rubin might be hosting the billions one. I do love
1:34.9	billions. So anyway, check that out. Check out the Bill Simmons podcast today. He talked about
1:39.5	Ronda Rousey, WWE versus UFC. And the 2013 Oscars, what would happen if they had a five year waiting
1:47.1	period before they gave out those awards? We did that today on the BS podcast. Check that out.
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