The Bill Simmons Podcast
A 2024 NBA Redraft, Plus 2020s Sliding Doors With Ryen Russillo
23 Mar 2025
The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss the Bulls shocking the Lakers on Saturday night and reexamine the 2024 NBA draft class (4:01). Then they discuss the Cavaliers' four-game losing streak and wonder whether Donovan Mitchell could lose his first-team All-NBA spot to Anthony Edwards (35:43). Finally, they discuss their biggest NBA "sliding doors" moments of the 2020s (58:49). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Ryen Russillo Producers: Kyle Crichton and Chia Hao Tat Order Michelob ULTRA today, available on Doordash! ENJOY RESPONSIBLY © 2025 ANHEUSER-BUSCH, MICHELOB ULTRA® LIGHT BEER, ST. LOUIS, MO. 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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We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. I have new rewatchables coming up because it is still sports movie month. So we did Blue Chips. It was me and Bain Lathan and Chris Ryan. And the reason we did it was because we did it like in 2017. We didn't even have the categories yet. So we decided March Madness. Let's just go. Let's bring this baby back. So much fun to talk about.
You can watch that as a video podcast on Spotify. You can watch it on The Ringer Movies YouTube channel as well, where we also put up a reaction on the Happy Gilmore 2 trailer that I actually pitched them my idea for the sports movie sequel I want to see the most, and it involves basketball. So you can go check that out on our YouTube channel.
The Prestige TV podcast, we're still covering White Lotus, episode six. Sunday night on HBO, right after it ends, you can go there and you can listen to me and Mallory and Joanna breakdown episode six, which was fantastic. I am going to Boston in a couple of days because we're doing a live rewatchables at house of blue.
We were doing goodwill hunting for everybody coming to that, uh, to that live show. We did goodwill hunting, I think in the first two years of the pod, but way more categories. Plus we got Rosilla this time, perfect movie to do in Boston. And then we're going to have a Coolidge corner, uh, Film Festival, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Check out theringer.com slash events.
There's still some tickets left, I think, for some of the theater, for some of the movie stuff. Me and Sean and Chris are going to be there probably talking after a couple of the movies. So there you go. Coolidge Corner all weekend. I don't think there's going to be a live show with me and Rosillo on Sunday night in Boston. I think we're just going to do the pod regularly. We'll see, though.
You never know. Could there be a last second live show? Maybe. Anyway, we're also brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook, where they have these player performance doubles, two-leg parlays made for you specifically. Take an NBA player prop, like Luka's going to score 30, the Lakers are going to win. And they have a ringer player boost token. on these, placed on any of the games.
And it's good if you hit them. And there's a lot of good games on Tuesday, including Dallas and the Knicks and Golden State Miami. So stay tuned. I'm going to tweet out my pick on Tuesday. Be sure to claim the ringer PBT in the carousel on the FanDuel Sportsbook app. This Tuesday.
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