Luka’s Revenge, NFL QB Roulette, and Tales from 'White Lotus' With Sheil Kapadia and Dave Bernad

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 145 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons reacts to the Lakers and Mavericks' first meeting since the massive Luka Doncic trade (0:00), before talking with Sheil Kapadia about next season's Super Bowl contenders, Matt Stafford’s future, teams desperate for a QB, free agent buzz, top-10 draft projections, and much more (10:25). Finally, Bill sits down with ‘White Lotus’ EP Dave Bernad to discuss the ambiguous responsibilities of an executive producer, the unlikely origins of HBO’s ‘White Lotus’, stories from making the show, and more (01:11:48). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Sheil Kapadia and Dave Bernad Producers: Kyle Crichton and Chia Hao Tat 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	The Bill Simmons podcast presented by a Fanduals sportsbook.
0:03.7	I am recording this right after Lakers' Maps, just the very top here.
0:07.5	Four things I wanted to hit coming off that game.
0:10.1	Number one, the Luca Donchish trade is now kind of seeming stupid for Dallas.
0:17.2	Oh, wait, it was stupid immediately when it happened.
0:20.5	This is just a disaster.
0:22.6	I can't believe Nico Harrison actually went to the game.
0:26.5	Like they weren't going to chant, thank you, Nico at him for two and a half hours.
0:30.4	If I was him, I would have pretended to have COVID, the flu, bronchitis.
0:35.7	I don't know what, but I would not have wanted to be in the building.
0:38.1	That's just nuts.
0:39.9	All right.
0:40.8	Three actual takeaways.
0:42.1	One, this is already the best rivalry in the NBA.
0:46.5	I am the most interested in every Lakers Mavericks game from now on.
0:49.8	We didn't even have Anthony Davis tonight.
0:51.5	We didn't have Gafford.
0:52.3	We didn't have Gafford. We didn't have Lively. There's going to be a version of this game, at least for this season and next season, I would guess, where you have this big Mavericks team with a bunch of size. And then you have this weird Lakers team that's kind of playing small, but they're not small because their front court has 800 pounds of guys. Then Luca trying to get revenge against his old team
1:13.5	and just a lot of different storylines that I think are great.
1:17.0	We had this in the 2000s, the seeds of it, when Shaq went to Miami,
1:21.7	but Kobe's Lakers team wasn't good enough.
1:24.2	We had the seeds of it when Durant went to Golden State in 2016 and then there was going
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