The Bill Simmons Podcast
Ageless LeBron, Kawhi’s Crazy Career and NFL Draft Burning Questions With Zach Lowe and Peter Schrager
23 Apr 2025
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons talks about going to Game 2 of the playoff series between the Lakers and the Timberwolves (2:29). Then, Bill is joined by Zach Lowe to discuss what-ifs regarding Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers' matchup with the Nuggets (17:56). Finally, Bill talks all things NFL draft with Peter Schrager (01:03:00). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Zack Lowe and Peter Schrager Producers: Chia Hao Tat, Jessie Lopez, and Steve Ceruti Presented by the all-new 2025 Nissan Armada. Learn more at https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/crossovers-suvs/armada/html. 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 talking NBA playoffs. I'm talking Kawhi Leonard. I'm talking the NFL draft. It's all next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. I put up a new Rewatchables on Monday night. We did Minority Report. It was me and Van Lathan and Chris Ryan. You can watch this video podcast on Spotify. You can watch it as... a YouTube video on our ringer movies, YouTube channel.
You can see all the clips from this podcast on the bill Simmons, YouTube channel, including us going live on Sundays with Priscilla. So subscribe to that channel. You'll get all of our live stuff when we're, when we're doing it. Uh, NFL drafts coming on Thursday. We have the ringer NFL draft guide. We have Todd McShay's newsletter and his podcast with the ringer NFL draft show. We have the, uh,
the ringer NFL show, uh, we're covering the draft and all these different ways. I'm going to be talking about a little bit later with our old friend, Peter Schrager. Now at ESPN. Yeah, he's going to be on. Uh, but first at the very top of the podcast, I went to Lakers, Minnesota tonight, came back, race back from the game. and can give you my quick takes on what I saw in game two.
And then old friend Zach Lowe, now at The Ringer, now at Spotify. We taped something earlier today about Kawhi Leonard because the moment had arrived. Let's have a Kawhi Leonard conversation. Then Peter Schrager talk a draft. This is an awesome podcast. Can't wait for you to listen to it. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, I am taping just the top part of the pod here.
It is 10 o'clock at night, almost. Just got home from Lakers, Minnesota. Game two played in Los Angeles, California at the Crypto. Used to be called Staples. I still call it Staples. It's Crypto. A must-win game for the Lakers. They did win. It was a weird one. I really wanted to have like some sort of awesome take to play off of or some grand thing to say.
And I could do the first take thing and just list all the guys who need to step up. Nas Reed. Nas Reed, nine points. He's got to step up. Dante DiVincenzo, four points. You got to step up. I'm not going to do that. I have two takeaways. One slightly negative, one slightly positive. Other than the Lakers were supposed to win tonight. They took care of business. 39?
Somewhere in that vicinity. 39 minutes. Rui Hachimura, who got hit in the face. He's wearing like a Batman mask. 34 minutes. Finney Smith, 38 minutes. So they basically did a Tibbs on this game. And the positive comment here is just the LeBron stuff is just incredible. He's 21-11-7. Big energy plays. Big defense. And I'm watching it going...
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