The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
Like you want to go fast.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
You want to flex up.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
You want to show, you know, your fan base that like you got some juice and like naturally, right?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
And so when you come in and you're like, okay, let me tell you what we're going to do.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
I know we got the All-Star game coming here this year, and we've been waiting on that.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
What we're going to do is trade our two All-Stars.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
Probably not a popular spot to be, right?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
But you've got to have conviction.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
You've got to have alignment.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
And then, you know, you always start off with a retool, right?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
We're just going to retool.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
And then it gets to a point where you're seeing what a lot of teams are like, no, no, no, no.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
If we're going to lay up,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
in a weird way, like don't lay up in the water, you know, the water's 200 yards and we're going to get on a three, like, like we've got to, we've got to figure out how to, how to get out of this position and right or wrong.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
And I think you saw this with San Antonio, the decisions become pretty easy to in the, in the top part of the draft.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
You know, you're, you're, you're betting between some pretty amazing options there and,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
Being in those draft rooms and being on the other side, it gets a lot more challenging.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith
It's challenging all the way across, but drafting eight and nine every year is a little harder.