Speaker
Bill Simmons
Appearances over time
10 episodes
Episodes
10
Steph in Purgatory, a LeBron Mini-Mailbag, Jaylen Trade What-Ifs, and the Revived Red Sox With Joe House and Bill’s Dad
Spain Prevails, World Cup Winners and Losers, and Damon Vs. Leo With Chris Ryan and Anthony Dabbundo
England Survives, the Jaylen Trade Fallout, and an All-NBA Mailbag With Zach Lowe
The Jaylen Brown Colonoscopy Trade (and More NBA Summer Reactions) With Chris Ryan and Kirk Goldsberry
A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With Hollywood
2026 NBA Draft Winners and Losers With Joe House and J. Kyle Mann
Giannis to Miami! An Urgent Gathering Pod With Chris Ryan and Justin Verrier
The Giannis Never-Trade and a Mega-Mailbag With Zach Lowe, Plus Wyndham Clark’s Second U.S. Open Title With Joe House
NBA Draft Questions, Harper vs. Fox, and the USMNT’s World Cup Ceiling
Part 1: USA’s World Cup Collapse, Basebrawls, Jets Optimism, Life in The G-League and ‘The OC’ 20 Years Later | with Gabe York and Zoe Simmons
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Excluding the 13-0 Thailand game, Alex Morgan scored only 2 goals in her last 17 World Cup matches, yet remained the starting striker.
Boston Celtics and Miami Heat are the two primary suitors for Giannis, with Milwaukee waiting to see if Boston will top Miami's offer.
Before the Giannis trade, the Miami Heat finished 10th in the Eastern Conference, miles behind the Knicks, Celtics, Cavs, and others.
Jaylen Brown has logged nearly 26,000 regular season minutes and almost 5,000 playoff minutes over 10 years, making him one of the most durable stars in the league.
Golden State has the 7th-best odds to win the Western Conference at 27-to-1, reflecting how far the franchise has fallen without making a major move.
The Washington Wizards signed Trae Young to a 4-year, $212 million contract with a player option in year 4, a move Bill Simmons called a crime against the franchise.
England defeated Mexico 3-2 in the World Cup Round of 16, playing a man down for a significant stretch in a wildly dramatic match at Estadio Azteca.
In 6 seasons, LaMelo Ball has played just 9,400 minutes and zero playoff games, making him one of the least durable good guards of the last 25 years.
Rapinoe, at 37, came on in the last 25 minutes of the Sweden game and missed the deciding penalty kick.
Miami surrendered Tyler Herro, Khalil Ware, Hakim Shayok, the 13th pick, plus future unprotected picks and a swap — essentially their entire non-Bam roster.
LeBron James won the NBA assists title in the 2020 season averaging 10.2 assists per game while also winning the championship with the Lakers.
Mexico had not lost a real international game at Azteca in approximately 13 years before England's Round of 16 victory.
Jaylen Brown signed a $304 million supermax extension with the Celtics, making him one of the highest-paid players in NBA history.
Charlotte carefully limited LaMelo to just 27.5 minutes per game from mid-November onward, almost as if they already knew they'd trade him.
Bill Simmons reminded listeners that Giannis earned a top-3 MVP finish just two years before the trade, though he cautioned about his recent playoff track record.
San Antonio was a Finals contender last year and was missing one veteran leader. LeBron in the Keldon Johnson and Luke Kornet minutes changes everything — and at 41, nobody calls it a ring chase. It's just the old gunslinger riding with a great young team.
Once the Celtics put Jaylen Brown in the Giannis sweepstakes, there was no going back. Simmons argues the mistake was not immediately opening Brown to all bidders at once, because now that teams know he must be traded, the market has already soured.
The Celtics went 56-23 without Tatum, with Brown as their only reliable scorer. His 29-point nights, elite durability, and willingness to take on every tough defensive assignment make him a top-15 player — and yet teams won't give up a prospect for him.
This is a jersey-selling, Twitch-moment trade for fans under 25. LaMelo has played just 9,400 minutes in 6 seasons with zero playoff appearances. Minnesota just bet Anthony Edwards' prime on a guy who might never play a full season.
San Antonio solves real roster needs and LeBron could be the missing piece from their Finals run. But Golden State offers the sunset ride with Curry and the chance to sell out every arena on a farewell tour. Either way, nobody's calling it a ring chase at 41.
Sheridan met a tattooed ex-con at a West Hollywood gym who became a friend, a trainer, and eventually a single father in financial crisis. Rather than give a loan, Sheridan pitched a book — a travel guide for prison — and Simon & Schuster immediately said yes.
Most movies follow a predictable three-act rhythm. Sheridan wrote Sicario in five acts and hid the film's central goal until the end of act three. The tunnel shootout — placed where act two normally ends — was engineered to make audiences feel like anyone could die at any moment.
Every Minnesota problem traces back to the Gobert trade. It robbed them of assets, made the Towns deal inevitable, and led to a chain of moves chasing their own tail. Two conference finals later, it's still not clear they didn't overpay.
Sons of Anarchy offered Sheridan garbage money, making the decision to walk away easy. He realized that 15 years of acting had taught him exactly what not to do as a writer, and that the only way he'd ever tell a story worth telling was to write it himself.
In 2015, Sheridan pitched Yellowstone to HBO and explicitly told them it would be the biggest show on television. HBO passed. Paramount was shocked it was still available. The rest is TV history.
Critics roasted Sheridan for making Demi Moore an extra for seven episodes. That was the plan. By the time her husband dies and she must run the oil company, the audience — already predisposed to underestimate her — is set up for the most powerful possible reversal.
Hauser isn't a pretty-boy leading man — he's a wordsmith who understands which syllable changes meaning, with a physical presence that felt like a throwback to '70s cinema. Hollywood didn't want that for two decades. Sheridan did.
Both Giannis and Bam want to operate in the middle of the floor. That's not a problem until you need spacing — and then you have a traffic jam. For Miami to be a true contender, Bam needs to become a legitimate 3-point threat. He's not there yet.
Studio executives are mostly marketing and legal professionals terrified they won't understand the story — so they demand rewrites, backstory documents, and consensus. Sheridan demanded the opposite: pay him, stay out of his way, and he'll deliver. His track record proves it.
Phoenix gave up an unprotected first-round pick in 2033 to get Miles Bridges — a rental who'll need to be re-signed. No protections, no ceiling on the pick, and Charlotte walks away with what could be a lottery pick a decade from now.
Analysis
What they talk about
- Sports 86%
- Business 6%
- Arts 4%
- Health & Fitness 2%
- Society & Culture 2%
Connections
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