The Lakers Escape and Miami Flops With Kevin O’Connor, Plus Wesley Morris on ‘Air,’ ‘Succession,’ and Ben Affleck’s Unique Career

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 105 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Kevin O’Connor to discuss how the Lakers survived the Timberwolves in the play-in tournament, a look ahead to Lakers-Grizzlies, a disappointing Heat loss to the Hawks, NBA Round 2 dream matchups and more (1:33), before talking with The NYT’s Wesley Morris about why everyone loves the film ‘Air,’ revisiting Ben Affleck’s Hollywood legacy, HBO’s ‘Succession,’ and more (49:00). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Kevin O’Connor and Wesley Morris Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, playing games, Lakers, Hawks, Air, Ben Affleck.
0:07.0	Succession? Again? Yeah, it's all next.
0:11.0	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network.
0:13.0	If you missed the new rewatchables, we put up Monday night.
0:16.0	Me and Mallory Rubin did in decent proposal, which came out 30 years ago,
0:20.0	and it's just a bad shit crazy movie.
0:22.0	Had a lot of fun breaking that down. Go check it out.
0:25.0	Also put up a prestige TV podcast on Sunday night after a watershed.
0:32.0	Succession episode. I'm still not going to spoil anything, but man,
0:35.0	do we break it down? Me, Sean Fennesy, join a Robinson.
0:37.0	If you missed that, go listen to that. Go listen to the watch for the
0:40.0	IndieGrid wall and Chris Ryan. They had a really good podcast about it as well.
0:44.0	Coming up on this podcast, Kevin O'Connor and I are going to break down
0:48.0	the two Tuesday night playing games and what it means for the Hawks and the
0:51.0	He and the Timberwolves and the Lakers plus.
0:54.0	My old friend was a Morris came on to talk about why we liked air so much.
0:59.0	And also what it means to Ben Affleck's three decade legacy,
1:04.0	which we both feel like needs some examining.
1:07.0	And then of course we had to talk about succession because that's what we do.
1:10.0	It's all next. First, our friends from ProJip.
1:21.0	All right, we're taping this. It's a little past 10 o'clock Pacific time.
1:36.0	Kevin O'Connor is here just watched. We've only had the play in for a couple
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