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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Week 1 NBA Notes. Plus, NBA Then and Now With Jackie MacMullan and Bob Ryan

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons shares some thoughts from Week 1 of the 2020-21 NBA season (2:00), before talking with sports media legends Jackie MacMullan and Bob Ryan to discuss NBA stories ranging from the 1960s up until today. They also discuss tweaks to this NBA season, including travel and the shortened schedule, the James Harden sweepstakes, and more (27:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up, I have some basketball for you and then some basketball and then I think we're gonna follow that up with maybe some basketball

0:06.9

So yeah, oh there's gonna be a basketball that's next

0:10.9

We're also brought to you by the ringer.com and the ringer podcast network put up a new rewatchables this week

0:16.3

It's mr. Holland's opus. It was the last one of 2020 if you want to hear the entire

0:21.3

Rewatchables archive dating back to 2017 it is exclusively on Spotify

0:26.2

You can still get everything from the last 60 days on all platforms another great movie coming on on Monday

0:32.0

So stay tuned for that

0:33.6

Speaking of ringer podcast the wire way down on the hole wrapped up a really really fun

0:41.1

entertaining insightful run

0:43.1

Jamel Hill Van Lathen they broke down every single episode of the wire which I think is a mountain rush more show

0:50.0

It's one of the four or five greatest shows of all time. They did winners and losers

0:54.1

They hit the big picture storylines. They did it all did it everything and they finally wrapped it up

1:00.7

I think they did like 65 episodes something like that if you love the show if you're thinking about rewatching it as we head to

1:07.1

month 11 of the pandemic here

1:09.4

It's on I think HBO Max

1:12.0

You and it's on Amazon team in a couple other places

1:15.0

But if you want to watch the wire again and watch it along with Van and Jamel and highly recommended

1:19.6

I'm really proud of that podcast. They did a great job really appreciate all the hard work

1:23.5

They put into it. So check it out the wire way down the hole. It's available on all

1:27.9

Platforms coming up. I'm gonna do a little basketball stuff just at the top stuff

1:32.0

I noticed over the last few days and then Bob Ryan and Jackie McMullen

1:37.5

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