The Colangelo Saga and Best NBA Finals Narratives. Plus: Rich Kleiman on KD, Jay-Z, and Superstardom

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 97 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons shares his thoughts on the Bryan Colangelo situation (3:15) before talking NBA Finals narratives and subplots, including historic Finals runs, the real difference between LeBron and Michael Jordan, and Kevin Durant versus LeBron James, Part 2 (14:25). Then Bill sits down with Durant's business manager, Rich Kleiman, to talk about his music industry origins, his run with Roc Nation, meeting Durant, and how players are more equipped today to branch out in the business world (32:10). Colangelo Article Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the Bill Simmons podcast on the online media outlet network.
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0:10.2	Just look at LeBron James right now. He's figured out a way to play all 48 minutes in a playoff game
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0:42.2	the smartest way to hire. We're also brought to you by HBO. Yeah, screw it. We're doing a final show
0:51.7	with them. Incredible. I am in San Francisco right now going to game one tonight. We're going to
0:59.1	talk about that in a second. And we announced it on Tuesday. The show is called court side at the NBA
1:04.8	finals. We're at media day yesterday. Taping a whole bunch of stuff. I am very excited about this
1:09.7	show. So yeah, if you don't have HBO yet, go get it. Get it. Anyway, you can. It's going to be good.
1:15.9	June 19th. Also, speaking of plugs, the rewatchables. We are two episodes into our 20 episode season.
1:24.0	Chris Ryan, Sean, fantasy night did training day. It went up today. I would argue it's in it's
1:30.8	one of the top three rewatchables podcast that we've ever done. I still think he's the best one.
1:37.7	I'm not sure what number two is and training days in the top three because it really turned
1:41.5	into a referendum on how much we all love Denzel. What is best movie was best performance. If you
1:46.0	love Denzel, and by the way, it's not American. It's un-American. If you don't like Denzel,
1:50.5	if you love Denzel, and I know you do because who doesn't love Denzel. I would listen to this one.
1:54.9	The best part is we called Shay Serrano at the end. I called them and he came in like Eric Agnier
2:00.2	in 2003 in the Dodgers and just threw 101 miles an hour for 10 minutes on Denzel to close the podcast
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