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The Bill Simmons Podcast

The 2026 Made-Up NBA Awards With Zach Lowe

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Zach Lowe LIVE on Netflix to react to the Nuggets-Spurs OT game before discussing the Lakers' injuries (0:32). Then, they give out their 2026 Made-Up NBA Awards (23:28). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Zach Lowe Producers: Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Chris Wohlers Brought to you by PayPal. Learn more at https://paypal.com/payin4 The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The The Bill Simmons podcast live on Netflix.

0:37.3

That's Zach Lowe that you're looking at.

0:39.1

He's at an undisclosed location.

0:42.4

By the way, rewatchable is coming tomorrow night.

0:44.8

We are doing Eddie and the Cruisers.

0:47.1

It's the tail end to see our month.

0:49.2

And then Zach's got a podcast on Tuesday.

0:52.1

We're going to do the made-up NBA awards later in the episode,

0:56.4

Zach, Game of the Year yesterday. We always say game of the year after there's a great game,

1:00.5

but this really was the game of the year. San Antonio, Denver was on Amazon. I like these

1:05.3

early Saturday afternoon PT games on Amazon because they're all over the country. Like,

1:09.7

if you're in Europe, you're watching it like you're watching on Saturday Live. We had Wembe and Joker kind of playing for the number two MVP spot, not to mention San Antonio trying to lay the Smackdown, Denver trying to get to the three seed. And the two centers just brought it out of each other. And we went in overtime. It was the biggest game of the year for Denver to win. I thought it was a good loss for San Antonio as whereas that sounds, but more

1:32.5

importantly, two generational guys, a really special sporting event. Like, I'm still, I'm still

1:38.8

glowing 24 hours later. What more can you ask for? These two guys are absolutely unbelievable. They danced around

1:45.1

each other for a lot of the game before Wembe kind of took the Yokic assignment for most of the down the stretch. Yokich did not guard Wembe very much at all, but just sort of sometimes they would come into contact on switches and it would be like, ooh, here we go. Here's what he paid for. And like Wemby just big boyed him on a couple post-ups, like just ate his shot alive,

2:02.3

and then Yokic would get him like work the body, get a little, paid for it. And like Wembe just big boyed him on a couple postups, like just ate his shot alive.

2:02.3

And then Yokic would get him like work the body, get a little like weirdo hook over him and just

2:07.3

masterpiece performance by both guys. And you could just see the sort of strategies that both teams

2:12.6

were toying with with an eye on like maybe, maybe down the line, this could be a thing.

2:18.4

You know, it's funny, the league was built on centers way back when.

2:22.1

George Mikan, Russell versus Chamberlain, Kareem.

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