The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Clips-Nuggets Slugfest, Brunson’s Heroics, Best 2025 TV Shows and NBA Then and Now With Rob Mahoney, Joanna Robinson and Bob Ryan
02 May 2025
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Rob Mahoney to react to the Knicks-Pistons and Nuggets-Clippers playoff matchups on Thursday (2:22). Then, Bill talks with Joanna Robinson about TV shows in 2025 (48:24). Finally, legendary sportswriter Bob Ryan joins to talk about Anthony Edwards, the Celtics, and more! (01:27:00) Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Rob Mahoney, Joanna Robinson, and Bob Ryan 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, we're going to talk NBA playoffs, television, and historical NBA. It's all next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. Put up a new Rewatchables on Monday night. We did Someone to Watch Over Me. It was a one for us, for me and Chris Ryan. We have a massive movie coming on Monday. Stay tuned for that. Readjust your schedules.
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This podcast, so I'm taping this before I went to Clippers Nuggets Game 6, which we're going to talk about with Rob Mahoney. We're going to talk about Nick's Pistons as well. Joanna Robinson, his podcast partner on Prestige TV. She came on with me to talk about the year in TV so far because it's been awesome. We tried to do as unspoilery a conversation as we possibly could.
And then last but not least, The great Bob Ryan. I wanted to talk about a whole bunch of historical NBA stuff, 2025 versus guys from the past. So he graciously came on and we talked hoops. So it's a big, big podcast. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. Recording the top part of the pod. It's a little after 10 o'clock Pacific time.
I just drove back from the Clippers Nuggets game six, which was quite an affair. Rob Mahoney is here. Clippers dominated the entire game. James Harden was magnificent for three quarters.
He was.
It looked like they were about to put the game away seven times and it was just going to go into the 17, 18, 19 range. I was going to be able to drive home with six minutes left and start recording the pod with you. And then all of a sudden the Nuggets were within nine and they were within six and the PTSD kicked in. New arena. Yeah. New energy, really good team. It didn't matter.
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