The Still-Young Grizzlies, Best NBA Futures Bets, and 2023’s Oscar Noms

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Chris Vernon and Joe House to discuss the Grizzlies' three-game losing streak and whether this team could use some veterans before the trade deadline (2:06). They also kick around solutions to the NBA's problem of its stars missing games (19:11) before sharing their favorite NBA futures bets (39:53). Finally, Bill is joined by NYT's Wesley Morris to react to the 2023 Oscars nominations and discuss a strange year in film (1:05:28). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Chris Vernon, Joe House, and Wesley Morris Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have local sports podcast in Boston. It's called off the pike Chicago. The full go. New York, New York,
0:06.3	which is James Drembsky. And then the ringers Philly special, which is humming right now.
0:10.3	The sixers are hot. The Eagles are hot. Go listen to everybody's takes in the Philly sports scene.
0:15.0	The ringers Philly special. We're also brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook on Wednesdays.
0:21.2	I usually tweet a same game parlay that I like for the night. I'm going to have to do it later than
0:25.9	ever this year because just people get scratched. Let's we got the Kings with the over and a whole
0:32.1	bunch of things. And then some bonus got scratched like an hour before the over tonight is frustrating
0:36.5	because the Kings won anyway. So I'm going to be tweeting those probably closer to the game than
0:40.5	usual. But stay tuned for those. We're going to talk about MBA ads in a second and a whole bunch of
0:44.6	other MBA topics with Chris Vernon and Joe House. I don't know if it's sober house buzzt house or
0:51.8	drunk house. We're going to find out. And then Wesley Morrison. I reacted to the 2023 Oscar nominations.
0:58.4	And what a absolutely bizarre year it was for movies. So you have all that. And if you missed it,
1:04.7	we put up a new rewatchables. I'm on a night. We did big. What are my favorite movies? Another one.
1:10.0	We just cranking out movies that I love these days. But it was with Van Lathen and Meli Ruben.
1:15.4	The second hour of this podcast went off the rails in a great way. It was really fun. So you can
1:20.8	check that out. You can also check out the prestige TV podcast where we are hitting the last of us
1:26.4	really hard twice a week and getting ready for a whole bunch of new shows that are coming soon. I
1:31.4	think there's one coming this week and one coming in February and then successions coming. And
1:37.7	we just have a lot of prestige TV coming up in one second. The prestige duo of Joe House and
1:43.4	Chris Vernon first our friends from Pearl Jam.
2:05.9	All right. Tapemisson is 245 Pacific time.
2:09.2	Joe House is here. Chris Vernon is here. So we're not covering anything from the basketball
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