The NBA Midseason Power Poll With Ryen Russillo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo, and they go through seven tiers of the NBA. In each tier, they pick out which team they like the most going forward and which team they like the least. They wrap up by taking a look back at the 2012 four-team Dwight Howard trade. Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Ryen Russillo Associate Producer: Isaiah Blakely Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you go to MBA rankings dot the ringer dot com, you can find our top 100 players in the MBA
0:06.0	ranked, which we do pretty much every month with little synopsis, everything else. I did my trade
0:10.8	value thing last month, 9,000 words. If you missed it, the top 70 assets plus we even have the league
0:16.0	pass rankings. Our favorite players on league pass. It's all there. MBA rankings dot the ringer dot com.
0:22.1	We're also brought to you by the ringer podcast network. I have a new rewatchables coming on Monday.
0:26.5	Sean fantasy and I did whiplash. Stay tuned for that. One of the better movies from a rewatchable
0:32.4	standpoint of the last 10 years. We're going to explain why we dove into it hard. Thanks to
0:39.2	everybody in Salt Lake City for turning out for two live shows. One with Ryan Ricella who's about
0:44.1	to come on this podcast. And then we had the ringer MBA crew. I think we had six people on stage at
0:48.9	one point. Both shows sold out talking hoops. Everybody loved it. Great to meet the listeners and the
0:54.1	readers and the fans. And we plan on doing a lot more of these. We're going to do an omifus
0:59.7	next month. Actually, the mismatch is doing two one in L.A. and then one in Memphis and House
1:03.6	and I might go to the Memphis one. That's going to be in late March. But we like doing this stuff.
1:08.3	It is so nice post pandemic to get out there in the real world again. We're going to talk about
1:12.4	basketball in a second. Settinates with Brazil is back. First, our friends from ProJM.
1:26.6	All right, we're taping this. It is one o'clock L.A. time. We don't care about the All Star Game.
1:44.1	It's fun to watch, but ultimately it's not. We're not going to wait until after the All Star Game
1:47.7	Tip of Podcast. Ryan Ricella is here, fresh from the streets of Salt Lake City. Did a live show
1:52.4	yesterday. We're going to break through all 30 teams. Have a little gimmick for you. How was Salt
1:57.2	Lake City though? Tell us. It was great. Look, I've been to Utah a bunch of times. Show us terrific.
2:02.4	So thanks to Wise Guys for having us. And other than that, it was good. I get the same
2:07.8	park city a little bit too. So it's going to be back. What was the best question the crowd asked?
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