The Embiid Conundrum and Million Dollar Picks, Plus “Who Won 2019?” w/ Rembert Browne | The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons hits on the NBA Christmas games (3:55), before making Million Dollar NFL Picks for Week 17 (21:38). Finally Bill and Rembert Browne bring back an old Grantland tradition with a “Who Won the Year?” bracket featuring Keanu Reeves, Tiger Woods, Kawhi Leonard, J.Lo, and many more (33:50). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's post Christmas episode of the Bill Simmons podcast and the Ringer podcast network is brought to you by state farm.
0:06.1	Just like basketball, the game of life is unpredictable.
0:09.0	Talk to a state farm agent get a teammate who can help you navigate the unexpected, kind of like Milwaukee,
0:16.0	getting their butts kicked on Christmas day yesterday.
0:18.2	That was a little unexpected.
0:19.6	Get a teammate who can help you navigate the unexpected, talk to a state farm agent today.
0:25.2	Meanwhile, the Google assistant is ready to help you get more done with just your voice in the car at home.
0:29.6	And everywhere you take your phone with the assistant, you can set reminders.
0:33.2	So you don't forget important things like, Hey, Google, remember that my keys are on the top shelf.
0:37.9	And then later I could just say, Hey, Google, where did I leave my keys?
0:41.8	A little help hands free.
0:43.6	Just say, Hey, Google to get started.
0:46.2	We're also brought to you by the wringer.com one of the world's last good websites.
0:50.1	Well, we were writing about basketball yesterday.
0:51.9	Shout out to all the ranger people that were working on Christmas.
0:54.4	Kind of a lousy basketball that we're going to talk about that in a second.
1:00.7	Speaking of the wringer, the rewatchables we put up talented Mr. Ripley on Tuesday.
1:07.9	And also put up the last book of basketball 2.0 podcast, which was a breakdown of Kauai versus
1:17.2	Philly game seven round two, the best basketball game in the year for a lot of different reasons.
1:23.4	It's broke that one down with Ryan, Rosillo and Chris Ryan.
1:27.5	And Kauai will be coming up later in this podcast ironically enough.
1:32.2	So you can listen to those.
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