The NBA Takes a Beat, Plus the 2007 ReDraftables and Oden-Durant With Ryen Russillo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 111 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons talks about the concerns some players are having about the return of the NBA, and some of the parallels to 1968 (1:55). Then Bill and Ryen Russillo revisit the 2007 NBA draft and discuss some of its subplots, draft comedy, and NBA legends before redrafting the top 14 lottery picks (18:52). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:56.6	eye on the Ringer FC feed over the next couple of days. We are injecting some fresh blood in there.
1:05.0	Very excited about that. That feed has been quiet for a little while but soccer is back and we're
1:11.9	going to be livening up in a whole bunch of different ways. So keep an eye on that if you like soccer.
1:16.5	Coming up I'm going to talk a little bit about the situation in the NBA is in right now and then
1:21.8	Ryan Russo is going to join us. We did the 2007 redraftables on Friday. We carved out a whole
1:30.0	Friday afternoon to really dive into it. So we're going to run that right here. First our friends from Pearl Jam.
1:47.2	All right taping this 7 o'clock on Sunday night. We want to talk quickly about what's going on
2:01.2	with the NBA these last few days. So you had everyone thinking that we were headed toward Orlando
2:08.4	at the end of July to play a few regular season games in the playoffs. We thought everything
2:14.3	was settled. There was a big remona showburn piece in a NES pin dot com about Adam Silver and
2:20.4	Bob Agar and Chris Paul coming together and figuring this whole thing out. And then I think over
2:25.1	the past week two things happened one. It was unclear by all accounts just how much of a bubble
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