The Unhappy NBA Star Era, 2020 New York Sports, and MTV’s 'The Challenge' With John Jastremski and Dave Jacoby

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 125 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons shares his thoughts on James Harden wanting out of Houston, as well as some history behind the unhappy NBA star era (2:30), before talking to John Jastremski from WFAN radio about the current state of New York pro sports (34:00). Finally Bill talks with his old pal David Jacoby about the new season of MTV’s 'The Challenge: Double Agents.' They break down the competitors into tiers as they gear up for the new season (1:24:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up the fallout from James Harden wanting a trade from Houston the state of the New York sports scene and
0:05.8	The challenge the fifth major American professional sport. That's next
0:10.3	We're also brought to you by the ringer podcast network where I hopped on TV concierge this week to talk about a show called a teacher
0:17.0	With Malay Rubin, which is on FX you can get on Hulu and it's a fascinating show
0:21.6	So we broke it down there. I also went on the new
0:24.6	mismatch feed with Kevin O'Connor and Chris Vernon and we talked about a bunch of NBA stuff head in
0:31.4	into
0:32.4	The new season that I think is happening. I guess we'll find out
0:37.8	Coming up I'm gonna talk about Harden and the legacy of unhappy superstars at the very top and then Johnny Stremsky
0:45.3	New York radio host is gonna come on. We're gonna do a state in New York sports in 2020
0:49.5	It's been quite a year for the New York sports scene. I don't mean that as a compliment and then
0:54.6	My health pal Dave Jacobi
0:57.2	We have something very special planned for the challenges here. I'll just tell you now
1:01.2	We're recapping every episode on the ringer dish podcast. We'll be going up right after
1:07.0	The challenge on Wednesday nights right after it airs on MTV and we'll put the pot up
1:13.0	It will be on ringer dish Jacobi night or reunion. We still work together way back when we're gonna talk about that
1:17.6	And a whole lot more. It's an action pack podcast first project
1:41.2	All right, wanted to start the podcast was something I've been thinking about a lot last few days James Harden
1:46.5	He's unhappy. He's none of happy superstar. We've seen this happen in the NBA a bunch of times
1:52.1	This one feels a little different
1:54.1	Because he's unhappy with the situation that he single-handedly created he's single-handedly cultivated
2:00.1	It seems like he made most of the calls it didn't work out
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