The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Celtics-OKC Panic Check, Plus the Towns/Porzingis Careers With Zach Lowe
06 May 2025
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Zach Lowe to react to the Knicks-Celtics and Nuggets-OKC playoff games on Monday (2:53). Then, Bill and Zach discuss the careers of Karl Anthony-Towns and Kristaps Porzingis (49:39). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Zach Lowe Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo This episode is brought to you by Degree Deodorant. Grab the original Cool Rush at Walmart or Target today. 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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Coming up, I'm gonna talk to Zach Lowe about playoff basketball. Are the Celtics and OKC in trouble? Next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where last night we put up one of the biggest rewatchables episodes that we've ever done. We did Star Wars, the one from 1977 that they now call Star Wars Chapter Four, A New Hope, or whatever the hell they say. I call it Star Wars.
I grew up with that movie. Never really loved it, but I dove into it. And I gotta say, You know, I'm in my 50s. Star Wars won me over. It took this long. It was me, Van Lathan, Sean Fantasy, and Chris Ryan. We went for two parts. We went for almost three and a half hours. You can watch it on Ringer Movies. You can watch it as a video podcast on Spotify.
And I thought it was one of the most fun episodes we've ever done. We even, the blind call to Rosillo category worked because he picked up. So we got Rosillo's take on Star Wars as well. So you can check that out. wherever you get your rewatchables podcast coming up right now. Uh, I was going to tape with Zach Lowe about Townsend Porzingis. And then last night the games were so freaking good.
We just said, screw it. We went live on YouTube and I talked to Zach Lowe about the NBA. Speaking of the NBA, uh, on FanDuel, we are doing a tail or fade concept that we had that we tried last week. I pick a player prop on Wednesday's games, uh, you decide whether you want to tail it or fade it and you get a big profit boost either way. So I think we're going to do SGA scores.
30 plus points in game two is going to be the player prop. So check out FanDuel and you can check out the odds for that and apply your profit boost as well. All right. Without further ado, here's Zach Lowe. And without further ado, here's Pearl Jam. All right, we are impromptu live because we were taping the BS podcast with Zach Lowe. It is 9 o'clock Pacific.
And I said to Zach, why don't we just go live for the people that are on YouTube that just want my panicked Celtics reaction after one game. I'm actually not that panicked, but we have... An incredible Monday night. We had this whole other plan that we're still going to do at the end of this, but was not expecting all the basketball yesterday. Two fantastic games.
I want to talk about the Celtics first, but which team should be more panicked right now? Celtics or OKC, in your opinion?
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