The All-Positive NBA Show With Kirk Goldsberry

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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The Ringer's BIll Simmons is joined by Kirk Goldsberry for an all-positive NBA discussion on the exciting NBA talent pool, the contending Cavaliers, and a better than advertised Eastern Conference (01:28). Then they discuss the surging Knicks, Victor Wembanyama's development, how the Hawks are finally rounding out their roster (18:10), the trade machine Nets, Nikola Jokic, the newly fun Pistons, the "zombie" Magic, how the Lakers are turning their season around, a fun 2024 draft class, the good-vibes Clippers, and more (49:37). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Kirk Goldsberry Producers: Kyle Crichton and Chia Hao Tat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up next, are you feeling positive, Kirk Goldsbury?
0:04.7	I'm feeling extremely positive, Bill Simmons.
0:07.7	We are going to go so positive on the NBA, and that's next.
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0:26.7	The Bill Simmons podcast brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where I put up a new
0:31.3	rewatchables last night. We did Friday Night Lights. It is basically the 20th anniversary
0:36.6	of that movie. It came out 20 years ago.
0:38.8	Me, Mallory Rubin, one of the best football movies of all time. It's age really nice.
0:43.1	Are you a fan, Kurt Goldsbury, Friday Night Lights?
0:45.7	Of course. I mean, it's Texas. It's like the New Testament of Texas, I think. I love it.
0:50.3	Well, now the movies become underrated, which is one of the things, one of the reasons we want to do that podcast. Anyway, you can watch that in the Ringer movies. You can watch it as a Spotify video podcast as well. You can watch all the videos from this podcast on the Bill Simmons YouTube channel. You can hear Kurt Goldsbury. He's popping all over the place of the Ringer NBA show. He's written some pieces for the ringer. He's going to be on in one
1:11.5	second with me because we are doing the all positive end of the year NBA podcast. It's next.
1:18.4	First, our friends from Pearl Jam. All right. All right. Kurt Goldsbear is here we are taping this on tuesday morning new year's eve trying to put
1:50.3	this up before everybody goes out and we're doing an all positive NBA podcast Kurt the NBA's
1:56.4	take a lot of hits even on this podcast in a couple ways a lot of complaining a lot of nitpicking a lot of hits, even on this podcast in a couple ways. A lot of complaining, a lot of nitpicking,
2:02.7	a lot of people forgetting what the league was like 10 years, 20 years, 30 years ago,
2:07.9	and holding on to some ideal of something I'm not positive really existed. But what I want to do
2:13.7	today is no negativity at all, all the positive storylines, all the things I'm excited
2:18.8	about. But before we get into it, do you think this is overboard with people complaining about
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