The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
05 Nov 2024
The Ringer's Bill Simmons reveals his NBA power poll of all 30 teams through two weeks (2:11), before he is joined by FS1's Kevin Wildes to argue about Halloween candy, discuss Patrick Mahomes's MVP case, and talk about Drake Maye bliss for Patriots fans (53:43). Then they bring back an old favorite, another edition of Half-Baked Ideas (1:25:57). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Kevin Wildes Producer: Kyle Crichton 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, a two-week NBA Power Poll plus half-baked ideas next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. Put up a new Rewatchables on Monday night. It is the 40th anniversary, give or take a couple weeks, of Body Double, the belated Brian De Palma classic. Had such a good time on this one. Me, Chris Ryan, Sean Fantasy. A lot of laughs. Some lines were crossed.
You can watch it on the Ringer Movies YouTube channel. As well, you can watch all the clips and videos from this podcast on the Bill Simmons YouTube channel. Coming up on this pod, I am going to do a two-week NBA Power Pull. There's no games tonight, and there were 15 games last night. So, wrote down a bunch of notes. I was working on this the last two days.
We're gonna count down the teams from 30 to one. And then after that, our old friend Kevin Wilds is coming on. We're going to talk candy for actually a long time. Drake May, Patrick Mahomes, and then a heaping healthy batch of half-baked ideas. I want to put this up early today because I'm hoping everybody is out there voting. You can listen to this when you're in line on your headphones.
on your AirPods, whatever you listen to. In my case, the Wirepods. Have we come up with the name of those yet? You can listen to them when you're driving to go vote, when you're taking the bus or the train to go vote. But I hope you're voting. And I stayed out of the election this time around on the podcast, but you know where I stand. It's the same place I stood every four years.
But I thought this time around, we would keep the podcast around the stuff that people come forward for. And, you know, If you want to consume politics, there's plenty of places to do it, but you know where I stand. Anyway, we're going to bring in the power pole in one second. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, I'm taping this Tuesday morning.
There are no NBA games today, which is the perfect time to do a Power Poll after two weeks. We did this last year. We did this the year before. Counting backwards with tears from 30 to 1. We have a nice little two-week sample size here. So first category, there's only one team in it, and it's called Poop for Coop. You could also have talked me into Sag for Flag.
You could have talked me into Poop Scooper for Cooper. But I think poop for coop is the right one for this. And this is basically just Utah. 30th offense. Minus 14.4 net rating already. I don't know what's going on with this team. And I think the thing is they know. They want to stink. One of the things they're doing, they're putting a lot of eggs in the Keontae George basket. Who I actually...
I'm not against, like he might have potential down the road, but he has the ball a lot. He's shooting 33%, 29% from three. When he's out there, minus 22.3 net. And he's a young player that you're getting good reps for. So it's actually like, he's probably one of the best tanking assets in the league because maybe four years from now, he'll be really good.
There is no path for this team to be good. They're in a conference that's way better than the other conference. If you look at the standings, I think there's only two teams in the East that have an above 500 record right now. The West is absolutely ridiculously loaded. And Utah is the stinker in the West. So they are number 30. Next category is the pre-tankers.
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