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The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Curry-LeBron Legacy Battle, Ja’s Mega-leap, and Jabari Smith’s Lottery Rise With Seerat Sohi, Rob Mahoney, and J. Kyle Mann

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Seerat Sohi to discuss the legacies of LeBron James and Steph Curry, as well as Chris Paul and Kevin Durant, and waning expectations for this Lakers' season (3:18). Then Bill talks with Rob Mahoney about the Grizzlies' roster depth, Ja Morant's accelerated development, the second-place Suns, and more (41:05). Finally Bill is joined by J. Kyle Mann to discuss the top prospects for the 2022 NBA draft, including Jabari Smith at Auburn, Paolo Banchero at Duke, and Chet Holmgren at Gonzaga (1:22:46). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Seerat Sohi, Rob Mahoney, and J. Kyle Mann Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:08.8

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0:15.2

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0:18.8

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0:23.4

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0:26.4

Plus at this point, and it is about as rewatchable as it gets.

0:30.8

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0:36.7

We hit the last Parley we did yet again on Fando. We did a 1413 point NFL T's on Sunday that they boosted.

0:44.5

And they're going to be boosting another same game, Parley for me, NBA on Wednesday.

0:49.8

Not sure where it is yet, but you just got to go to their main page and they'll have it in time for Wednesday's games.

0:55.6

Coming up on this, speaking of basketball, I have three Ring or Colleagues come on and talk about some different themes.

1:00.0

Sir, it's so he's going to talk about Curry versus LeBron, the legacy battle.

1:03.8

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

1:06.2

And then Rob Mahoney, we're going to talk about the Grizzlies. What's going on there?

1:09.8

Is this a real contender? Stealth contender? Can they get better? What should they do?

1:14.2

And little sun's talking at the end of that. And then finally, Jekyll, man,

1:17.6

is going to tell us about the top three in the 2022 NBA draft and how to scout them.

1:22.4

If you want to start watching college basketball pretty soon. So there you go.

1:26.0

I'm taping this after we taped all of those, all of those back and forths.

1:31.1

I noticed when I was on the Zoom that my face looked red, redder than usual.

1:36.8

Now, I have a little irish in me. So sometimes it'll get a little red, but really red.

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