The Celtics Sale, USMNT’s Flop, Lakers Hail Marys, and 'The Bear' Season 3 With Rob Stone and Van Lathan

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 109 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons updates his NBA tier list after the latest free agent moves and then discusses what he thinks Danny Ainge’s plan is with Lauri Markkanen, why the CBA is broken, and the thought process behind Wyc Grousbeck’s decision to sell his stake in the Celtics (02:06). Next, Bill is joined by Fox Sports’ Rob Stone to discuss the disappointing USMNT loss to Uruguay, debate whether Christian Pulisic is good enough to be the best player on a team, talk about the lost opportunities to capitalize on soccer interest in the country, and more (31:39). Bill is also joined by Van Lathan, and they talk through the drafting of Bronny James, the hope they have for 'Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F' to be decent, what will happen with Joe Biden, the Kendrick Lamar–Drake beef, and their thoughts on Season 3 of FX’s 'The Bear' (55:24). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Rob Stone and Van Lathan Producers: Steve Ceruti and Jessie Lopez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up talking to NBA Celtic sale the bear soccer team USA
0:06.4	Lots going on next
0:09.5	We're also brought to by the ringer podcast network put up a new rewatchables on Monday night.
0:14.6	We did The Naked Gun.
0:15.7	It was me and Kyle Brant.
0:17.1	You can watch that on our Ringer movies YouTube channel as well.
0:20.5	You can watch a lot of the videos from this podcast on the Bill Simmons
0:23.3	YouTube channel we have an action pack pod I got a bunch of stuff to talk about with the
0:28.6	NBA at the top including where Lori Markininin is gonna to go, the Celtic sale, I have some thoughts, which teams are actually
0:37.2	going to try to tank.
0:38.5	I did not work in the Kyle Anderson going to the Warriors trade that happened after I taped everything but I like
0:44.2	that one man if you could turn Clay Thompson's contract into the Anthony
0:48.2	Mountain and Kyle Anderson I'm just doing that I think think that was pretty good for them. Anyway, after that, bringing in Robstone, my buddy, you saw him as the face of Fox soccer hosted all those shows and we had to talk
1:04.5	about Team USA and what is going on as we're two years away from the World Cup
1:08.3	after they crapped the bed in Copa America and then last but not least least, Van Leithan, he wanted to come on and talk about the Lakers. We talked a little axle F. We talked rap beefs. Talked a little bit of Biden, then a lot of the bear. So I saved the bear part for the end, the bear season three,
1:25.9	because I really had some stuff I wanted to hit about season three.
1:30.1	Some of the backlash, an episode that really jumped out to me and just some big picture thoughts on a show
1:36.4	that I still feel like I will defend the death. So that is the podcast for today.
1:42.3	First our friends from ProCHIP. All right, wanted to rip through some quick NBA stuff before we get to the rest of the
2:05.2	podcast. Taping this, 3 o'clock, Pacific time, Tuesday afternoon, so if anything crazy happens,
2:11.9	don't play me.
2:13.2	I talked about on Sunday's podcast with Wild's the concept of Tears and trying to figure
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