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The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Unfathomable LIV-PGA Merger, Miami’s Special Sauce, and Butler’s Unusual Superstardom With Joe House, Nathan Hubbard, and Raja Bell

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Joe House and Nathan Hubbard to discuss the abrupt PGA Tour–LIV Golf merger. Was this the endgame for LIV all along? What about the players who never left? Could this happen again with other sports like tennis? And more (1:49). Then, Bill talks with Raja Bell about the Heat's improbable playoff run, Denver's need to "fight back" vs. Miami's aggressive play, Jimmy Butler's unique career arc, Game 3 thoughts, and more (44:44). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Joe House, Nathan Hubbard, and Raja Bell Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up golf golf. Yeah golf. Oh, and basketball. It's next.

0:07.0

We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where

0:12.0

I do not have a new rewatchables up. Usually we do my Monday nights. Our schedule is all out of whack this week.

0:19.0

On this podcast, we had one Sunday night in Ruselo. We have this one today. And then Wednesday night right after game three,

0:26.0

which is suddenly turned into a fast-dating game. I'm going to have a podcast reacted to the game and I have a second guest as well that I'm excited about.

0:33.0

So the schedule this week is Sunday Tuesday. Wednesday rewatchables will be later in the week coming up on this podcast.

0:40.0

The fairway wrong guys Nathan Hubbard Joe House. We're going to react to live in PGA, the most unexpected merger.

0:49.0

I think in recent sports history, I'm just my picking my job the ground. We're going to talk to those guys about that.

0:56.0

And then our guy, Roger Bell, who is on real ones on the Ringer NBA show with Logan Murdoch, a great podcast.

1:04.0

They had Howard Beck on this week. It was fantastic. Having had Roger on in a while, which is my fault because he's always available to come on.

1:11.0

I just always forget to ask why, but we're going to talk about the finals and what it's like to be in a team that gels and

1:19.0

a whole bunch of other things. How he defend Jib and Butler. I'll try to get him in a trouble a couple of times.

1:25.0

That is the podcast. Can't wait. It's all next first reference from Project.

1:49.0

All right, we're taping this late afternoon Pacific time. We have had seven to eight hours to digest one of the most shocking sports announcements.

1:58.0

I can remember people on Twitter were comparing this to Hulk Hogan joining the NWO. And I thought that was fair, but that was also professional wrestling.

2:09.0

It was scripted. They set up the angle to some degree. There was no setup for any angle here.

2:15.0

The live tour, which is just taking a beating the last couple of years, which is turned into this moral quandary of should you go, should you take the money, are we allowed to watch it or TV networks.

2:26.0

Can they broadcast it? What's going on exactly? What about people's legacies? We felt it. We were at the Masters in April.

2:34.0

And there was a little bit of a chill with the live guys that you could definitely feel in the galleries.

2:40.0

And it was either you're on this side or that side. And now the sides have merged. Nathan Hubbard, our guy in the ground for the fairway role and podcast.

2:49.0

Did any of this, did you see any of this coming like any of it?

2:54.0

I think house and I would tell you this was just a matter of time. The shock is in a how quickly it happened and be nobody fucking new.

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