The Future of Sports With Barack Obama and Bakari Sellers. Plus, Million Dollar Picks Week 15.

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Bakari Sellers and 44th president of the United States Barack Obama to discuss conferring with NBA players in the Orlando bubble during the wildcat strike, athletes pushing for social change, how different leagues, including the NBA, WNBA, MLB, NFL, and NCAA, responded to the coronavirus pandemic, whether college athletes should be paid, the Mount Rushmore of sports, being a dad in quarantine, his new book, ‘A Promised Land,’ the tumultuous first few months of his presidency, and more (3:30). Later, Bill gives out his Million Dollar Picks for NFL Week 15 (1:11:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, I'm going to break down week 15 gambling in the NFL with a million dollar picks.
0:06.0	And what else do we have?
0:07.4	I had some other guests.
0:09.6	Oh, Barack Obama.
0:11.2	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where you can find my book of basketball,
0:17.2	the six podcasts we put up for season three went up this week.
0:20.0	Chris Weber, Joe House and I tackled it.
0:23.0	Joe House was a then bullets season ticket holder.
0:27.4	And we both we loved watching Chris Weber play.
0:29.9	We're disappointed by how his career turned out and it's weird.
0:32.3	We're both defending him and still mad about certain things.
0:35.9	So you can listen to that in the book of basketball feed.
0:38.1	Also did a new rewatchables this week, Country Strong.
0:41.7	And Dave Jacobin, I broke down episode two of the challenge on the Ringer dish podcast.
0:47.2	We're doing that every Wednesday night, 25 minutes, an episode is the max.
0:52.3	It's the ceiling.
0:53.7	And we just wanted to hang out together once a week.
0:56.8	That's really it.
0:57.8	There's no rational reason that Dave Jacobi and I, two guys with real full time jobs
1:03.5	decided to do a challenge recap.
1:05.3	I have no explanation for you, but it's happening.
1:08.5	I'm just telling you that coming up, I'm going to talk to Barack Obama, who was once the
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