The Durant Game With Chris Ryan. Plus Dallas Dysfunction and Clips-Jazz With Jonathan Tjarks.

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Chris Ryan to discuss Kevin Durant’s incredible performance in the Nets’ Game 5 comeback win over the Bucks. They talk about Durant’s 49 points in 48 minutes, the Bucks’ questionable in-game adjustments, James Harden’s hamstring injury, Game 6 predictions, and more (3:00). Then Bill talks with Jonathan Tjarks about a report from The Athletic that there is friction in the Mavericks' front office, the lack of talent surrounding Luka Doncic on the Mavericks roster, looking back on the Clippers-Mavericks Round 1 series, Kristaps Porzingis’s trade value, and more (46:00). They also cover the Jazz-Clippers Round 2 series, the Clippers’ Game 4 win, and more (1:14:30). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Chris Ryan and Jonathan Tjarks Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	coming up, we wait until the night games are done to pod for a reason. Oh yeah, Bucks
0:06.6	Nets, a KD classic breaking it down next. We're also brought to you by the wringer.com
0:12.0	as well as the wringer podcast network. Hope you're checking out what if the Len bias
0:15.8	story, which is running on the book of basketball feed. It's our narrative story series about
0:20.6	Len bias. New rewatchables went out this week as well. We did city slickers, me, Chris
0:25.8	Ryan and Sean fantasy coming up, going to react to the incredible, unbelievable game
0:31.7	five bucks nets with Chris Ryan. And then this is a really special one. Tape the second part
0:38.2	of this podcast earlier today, but Jonathan Charks from the wringer, making his first appearance
0:43.4	in a while on this podcast. And we're going to explain why that matters. It's all coming
0:47.6	up next first, our friends from ProJep. Alright, Tape and this is almost 815 Pacific
1:11.9	time. Just watch Bucks Nets Chris Ryan is here. The history of great game fives in the NBA
1:18.9	playoffs. For some reason, it's usually when the teams are two and two, you can remember
1:25.2	the iconic ones by one thing that happened, you know, the steel bird and Isaiah 1987. I made
1:32.5	a little list 2019. That's when KD Toronto, when you heard the Achilles, all the drama from
1:39.7	that game, 2018, Rocket Speed, the Warriors, Chris Paul gets hurt, becomes the Chris Paul
1:45.1	game, 93 Charles Smith game, 07 LeBron 48, 84 finals, Heat game, 2005 finals, Horry game,
1:55.7	97 finals, Flu game, 2010, Suns Lakers, the Arthes game, 2006 finals, the Bennett Salvatore
2:04.8	game, 1976 finals, Triple OT game, 1985 finals, Cream gets hurt, comes back game, 2010,
2:13.2	Eastern finals, the LeBron, what the F is going on with him against Boston game, right?
2:18.2	86, Samson. And now Chris Ryan, the Kevin Durant game. I don't know if he had a game before.
2:26.3	I think this is it. It is the Kevin Durant game. And you guys are just talking on Sunday
2:30.3	night, you and Ryan were talking about, well, they're going to need him to go nuclear.
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