An NBA Fake-Trade Fiesta With Kevin O’Connor

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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It's fake trade season! The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Kevin O'Connor of Yahoo Sports to discuss NBA teams to watch around the trade deadline, including the Mavericks, 76ers, Pelicans, Lakers, and Heat (1:20). Then, they fire off a bunch of fake NBA trades as the deadline approaches (30:22). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Kevin O'Connor Producer: Kyle Crichton 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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0:00.0	Coming up, it's fake trade season. Let's go.
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0:35.8	We're also brought to by the Ringer Podcast Network. I put up a new rewatchables on Monday night.
0:40.2	We did a rewatchables mailbag. I had a great time. Thanks to everybody who's sending emails.
0:45.3	We came up with new categories, a couple of theme months, slightly tweaked the structure of the show,
0:50.9	had some laughs. So it was me and Chris Ryan and producer Craig Horlebeck. If you want to watch
0:55.1	that, it is on the Ringer Movies YouTube channel. If you want to watch anything from this
0:58.8	podcast, the Bill Simmons YouTube channel, we did not do a podcast Tuesday night, making up for
1:06.4	it today with a special basketball podcast. Our old friend Kevin O'Connor is coming in.
1:11.4	We're going to talk about a bunch of teams that are in trouble.
1:14.0	We're going to talk about fake trades.
1:16.6	What's realistic?
1:17.6	What's not?
1:18.6	Where are people like Jimmy Butler going?
1:20.4	Could there be a surprise?
1:21.9	The trade deadline is February 6th.
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