The NBA’s Almost Club, Denver-Miami Picks and Taylor Swift’s Iconic Year with Joe House, Raheem Palmer, Nathan Hubbard and Chuck Mindenhall

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 132 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Joe House to discuss the history behind perennial NBA playoff contenders that never secured a title, and what that history says about the Brown/Tatum Celtics (2:36), before they are joined by Raheem Palmer to run through some of their favorite NBA Finals bets (48:30). Then Bill talks with The Ringer’s lifelong Nuggets fan Chuck Mindenhall about rooting for the Nuggets for the last few decades, Nikola Jokic's NBA journey, Heat-Nuggets thoughts, and more (1:13:42). Finally Bill is joined by Nathan Hubbard to get some context on Taylor Swift's concert tour that is setting record numbers while morphing into a cultural phenomenon (1:43:56). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Joe House, Raheem Palmer, Chuck MIndenhall, and Nathan Hubbard Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, a Megapod NBA little history, some Taylor Swift, the nuggets, it's all next.
0:11.2	We're also about to buy the Ringer podcast network where I did not put up a new rewatchables
0:16.2	on Monday because we ended up doing the BS pod with my dad with sad Bill Simmons and sad
0:21.8	Dr. Bill Simmons and we moved the rewatchables.
0:25.2	We are recording on Friday and we're just going to put it up.
0:28.6	So stay tuned for that Friday rewatchables.
0:32.6	We're doing a James Bond movie.
0:36.8	That's your hint.
0:38.2	So there you go.
0:39.2	Coming up on this podcast.
0:40.6	So on the plane home from Boston, I did a ton of work on the NBA Almost Club.
0:48.3	The teams that just couldn't get over the hump and tried to figure out is there some
0:52.5	sort of historical parallel between them that we should be looking out with the Celtics
0:57.6	as they decided they hit their cylinder nut.
0:59.6	So it's a Celtics thing but it's not really.
1:01.2	It's really a history thing.
1:02.4	I brought Joe House on my buddy, my NBA history conciliary to talk about it with me and
1:07.7	then we talked about the finals.
1:10.0	Came up with some props with our friend, Raheem Palmer.
1:12.4	He joined us and we tried to break down what we thought would happen in the series.
1:17.8	So then as a little sorbet, a little cleanser, I brought Nathan Hubbardon to talk about
1:24.2	the Taylor Swift phenomenon in 2023.
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