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Brian Windhorst

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1872 total appearances

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The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

Right. Have you met him? This is Bob. Listen, I saw Joel Embiid and Paul George on the countdown set during the finals last year. Right. That was an amazing moment. It was an amazing moment. And, you know, Joel gave him the side eye. I mean, like, it's a little bit manufactured. Obviously, Joel and Paul George had communicated before that meeting.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

Right. Have you met him? This is Bob. Listen, I saw Joel Embiid and Paul George on the countdown set during the finals last year. Right. That was an amazing moment. It was an amazing moment. And, you know, Joel gave him the side eye. I mean, like, it's a little bit manufactured. Obviously, Joel and Paul George had communicated before that meeting.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

Well, anyway, the day of the free agent meetings was three days. You know, they were having them at this office building in Cleveland. And the teams were just walking into the lobby. And I was just sitting in the lobby. I was just tweeting it. Jim Dolan just came in. Pat Riley is waiting outside the elevator. I remember the Clippers got there. The heat ran really late.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

Well, anyway, the day of the free agent meetings was three days. You know, they were having them at this office building in Cleveland. And the teams were just walking into the lobby. And I was just sitting in the lobby. I was just tweeting it. Jim Dolan just came in. Pat Riley is waiting outside the elevator. I remember the Clippers got there. The heat ran really late.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

Well, anyway, the day of the free agent meetings was three days. You know, they were having them at this office building in Cleveland. And the teams were just walking into the lobby. And I was just sitting in the lobby. I was just tweeting it. Jim Dolan just came in. Pat Riley is waiting outside the elevator. I remember the Clippers got there. The heat ran really late.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

And there was no place for the Clippers to wait. And Neil O'Shea and Andy Roser just were standing there in the hallway. And just walking back and forth, waiting for Pat Riley and Eric Spolster and Mickey Harrison to finish. And I was just live tweeting it. I was just live tweeting it. I was like, well, Mikhail Prokhorov just left, but Jay-Z is staying back.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

And there was no place for the Clippers to wait. And Neil O'Shea and Andy Roser just were standing there in the hallway. And just walking back and forth, waiting for Pat Riley and Eric Spolster and Mickey Harrison to finish. And I was just live tweeting it. I was just live tweeting it. I was like, well, Mikhail Prokhorov just left, but Jay-Z is staying back.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

And there was no place for the Clippers to wait. And Neil O'Shea and Andy Roser just were standing there in the hallway. And just walking back and forth, waiting for Pat Riley and Eric Spolster and Mickey Harrison to finish. And I was just live tweeting it. I was just live tweeting it. I was like, well, Mikhail Prokhorov just left, but Jay-Z is staying back.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

He must be having a special meeting with LeBron. I was just tweeting what I saw. And nowadays, you'd never get that. But I think I had 14,000 Twitter followers at the beginning of that. And three days later, I had like 32,000, which blew my mind.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

He must be having a special meeting with LeBron. I was just tweeting what I saw. And nowadays, you'd never get that. But I think I had 14,000 Twitter followers at the beginning of that. And three days later, I had like 32,000, which blew my mind.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

He must be having a special meeting with LeBron. I was just tweeting what I saw. And nowadays, you'd never get that. But I think I had 14,000 Twitter followers at the beginning of that. And three days later, I had like 32,000, which blew my mind.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

But that was like an actual event where like, I was just like, just nobody was saying, wasn't like Mickey Harrison was saying, yep, we got it done. I was just tweeting when I was sitting there watching. I was just standing in the elevator lobby. I was sitting in the elevator lobby watching.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

But that was like an actual event where like, I was just like, just nobody was saying, wasn't like Mickey Harrison was saying, yep, we got it done. I was just tweeting when I was sitting there watching. I was just standing in the elevator lobby. I was sitting in the elevator lobby watching.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

But that was like an actual event where like, I was just like, just nobody was saying, wasn't like Mickey Harrison was saying, yep, we got it done. I was just tweeting when I was sitting there watching. I was just standing in the elevator lobby. I was sitting in the elevator lobby watching.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

That was amazing.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

That was amazing.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

That was amazing.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

When Shams tweeted. I had no idea it was coming. I did not know. Most of the time, you know when stuff's coming. Like we do. You can't always... Sometimes you know something's going to happen and you're just waiting. In our case, it's almost always Shams. Shams knows it. He's got the story written. He's got the tweet and the drafts and he's waiting. That happened this week with Mike Budenholzer.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

When Shams tweeted. I had no idea it was coming. I did not know. Most of the time, you know when stuff's coming. Like we do. You can't always... Sometimes you know something's going to happen and you're just waiting. In our case, it's almost always Shams. Shams knows it. He's got the story written. He's got the tweet and the drafts and he's waiting. That happened this week with Mike Budenholzer.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst

When Shams tweeted. I had no idea it was coming. I did not know. Most of the time, you know when stuff's coming. Like we do. You can't always... Sometimes you know something's going to happen and you're just waiting. In our case, it's almost always Shams. Shams knows it. He's got the story written. He's got the tweet and the drafts and he's waiting. That happened this week with Mike Budenholzer.