The 25 Most Intriguing NBA Playoff People With Ryen Russillo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 120 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss the NBA’s delightful play-in game format for the bottom NBA playoff seeds (2:30). Then Bill shares his list of the 25 most intriguing people in the 2020 NBA playoffs (21:03). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.1	reactions, features, everything as we dive into seven, eight weeks here, playoff basketball.
0:49.8	And then the Ringer NBA show is going to be going at least four times a week. Don't forget about
0:54.3	Mondays, Logan Murdoch and Roger Bell. That podcast is already excellent. We've got the mismatch
1:00.0	on Tuesdays and Thursday nights with KOC and Verno. And then group chat will be going at least once
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