A 2024 NBA Redraft, Plus 2020s Sliding Doors With Ryen Russillo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

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🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 124 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss the Bulls shocking the Lakers on Saturday night and reexamine the 2024 NBA draft class (4:01). Then they discuss the Cavaliers' four-game losing streak and wonder whether Donovan Mitchell could lose his first-team All-NBA spot to Anthony Edwards (35:43). Finally, they discuss their biggest NBA "sliding doors" moments of the 2020s (58:49). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Ryen Russillo Producers: Kyle Crichton and Chia Hao Tat Order Michelob ULTRA today, available on Doordash! ENJOY RESPONSIBLY © 2025 ANHEUSER-BUSCH, MICHELOB ULTRA® LIGHT BEER, ST. LOUIS, MO. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.0	and it's awesome. Please check it out. We're also brought to by the Ringer podcast network.
0:47.8	I have new rewatchables coming up because it is still sports movie months. So we did
0:51.4	blue chips. It was me and Bain Lathen and Chris Ryan. And the reason
0:55.1	we did it was because we did it like in 2017. We didn't even have the categories yet. So we decided
1:00.4	March Madness. Let's just go. Let's bring this baby back. So much fun to talk about. You can watch
1:05.9	that as a video podcast on Spotify. You can watch it on the Ringer movies YouTube channel as well,
1:11.1	where we also put up a reaction on the Happy Gilmore 2 trailer that I actually
1:17.3	pitched them my idea for the sports movie sequel.
1:19.5	I want to see the most, and it involves basketball.
1:21.9	So you can go check that out on our YouTube channel.
1:24.3	The Prestige TV podcast, we're still covering White Lotus, episode six, Sunday night on
1:31.0	HBO right after it ends. You can go there and you can listen to me and Mallory and Joanna
1:35.7	breakdown episode six, which was fantastic. I am going to Boston in a couple days because we're
1:42.3	doing a live rewatchables at House of Blue.
1:44.4	We were doing Goodwill Hunting for everybody coming to that live show.
1:49.6	We did Goodwill Hunting, I think, in the first two years of the pod, but way more categories.
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