The New NBA and Billionaire Secrets With Steve Nash, Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Chris Ryan | The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 103 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by NBA legend Steve Nash to talk player empowerment and how the public reception has changed around players who leave their teams for new horizons (2:55). Then Bill sits down with 'Billions' cocreators Brian Koppelman and David Levien to discuss athlete cameos, turning 50, hanging with billionaires, writing the show, and more (37:25). Finally, Bill talks with Chris Ryan about Team USA, their narrow victory over Turkey, why young players may feel inclined to sit out of FIBA, Olympics predictions, and more (1:09:15)! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:52.4	talked about all the crazy player movement in the NBA we talked about champions league and Tottenham
1:57.5	and all that stuff and we talked about team USA which has become more relevant over the last few
2:02.6	days because the game started and also some guys who didn't play which then I'm going to talk to
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