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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Westbrook’s Resurrection, Curry’s Rally and The GOAT TV Shows With Rob Mahoney and Andy Greenwald

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Rob Mahoney to discuss Clippers-Suns Game 3, Russell Westbrook's inexplicable rejuvenation, and whether the Suns can pull off a playoff run relying so heavily on their stars (1:53), before talking Kings-Warriors, 76ers-Nets, predictions for the weekend, and more (23:37). Then Bill is joined by Andy Greenwald of 'The Watch' podcast to discuss HBO's 'Succession', its case to be in the Mount Rushmore of TV, the anticipation around how the series will end, and more (50:15). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Rob Mahoney and Andy Greenwald Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up basketball television. What a combo. It's next.

0:08.0

We also brought to you by the ringer podcast network. Hope you checked out the latest rewatchables. We did alien. We also put it up on our YouTube page. If you want to watch the whole podcast as a show, go to YouTube.com slash

0:20.4

Bill Simmons prestige TV episode five. We're going to be breaking it down. Me, Jill and Robinson and Sean fantasy on Sunday. So stay tuned for that. I hope you're watching our fandole TV stuff.

0:32.8

Tey Frazier's hosting through the ringer a couple of times a week. Kevin O'Connor. He's got Beyond the Arc. He's caused bias. Those guys are there. Check out his coast bias on the ringer gambling show too for their

0:43.3

Friday bets. But if you want to watch any of those fandole TV shows, go check out the through the ringer feed

0:49.3

on Spotify or, yeah, Spotify because video podcasts. You can just watch them on your Spotify app. There you go. Coming up on this podcast.

0:59.0

Rob Bihoney comes on to talk about all Thursday night games and where we're headed this weekend with the NBA playoffs. And then my old friend Andy Greenwald

1:07.9

still cranking out the watch with Chris Ryan. He comes on to talk about the greatest TV shows of all time.

1:14.4

Is there a recipe? Does succession tap into the recipe? What do you need?

1:19.8

How do you land the plane in the final season and just what made the really special shows

1:25.2

stand out from beginning to end? So really fun television conversation. Can't wait for you to listen.

1:30.6

It's all next first our friends from

1:44.4

the

1:53.6

All right, taping this 1020 Thursday night. Just watch three

1:59.0

games. Two of them were really good. Suns clips. Worse, Kings wasn't that good, but it was really interesting. We're going to start with Suns clips because I think that was the one that captured our fancy. The Suns put in big minutes

2:10.4

on KD and Devon Booker Rob Bihoney. They're up two one in this series, but is there diminishing returns with the amendments are putting on these guys to play again 1230 Saturday

2:21.3

game four and already those guys combined are over like 250 minutes and three games.

2:27.7

I mean, there certainly could be, but what other option do you really have? Like the Suns are a Tory Craig away from not being a functional basketball team right now.

2:36.8

So if you have to keep KD and Booker out there until their legs fall off, that's what you got to do. You know, this team is shallow post

2:43.7

I don't know since the Durant trade. They're going to have to rely on those guys. They're sloppy even when they do rely on those guys.

2:50.1

But this is the best you've got if you're Phoenix at this season, you've got to improvise with the most talented lineups on the floor.

2:56.6

They were 45 and 43 minutes KD and Booker game one 44 and 45 in game two. And then in this game, Durant played 42 Booker played 45.

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