The Ringer’s Bill Simmons cracks open an NBA six-pack of topics, including possible Jimmy Butler trades, next year out-of-nowhere contenders, an NBA rules tweak, and more (2:58). Then Bill is joined by ESPN’s Seth Wickersham to discuss Bill Belichick becoming the next head football coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, why Belichick didn’t wait around for an NFL opening, how his philosophy might translate to the college game, and more (25:02). Finally, Bill talks with Joe House about some NBA Cup odds and the NFL weekend slate (1:21:13), before making the Million Dollar Picks for NFL Week 15 (1:59:29). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Seth Wickersham and Joe House Producers Kyle Crichton and Chia Hao Tat 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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where I got to say I've been costing them money lately and I'm not ashamed to brag about it. We've been doing these 30 on 30s during the NBA Cup rounds on Fridays and then we carried it over to last week on Friday and basically it's a profit boost token. You can boost any 30 point score, 30 plus. All they have to do is get to 30, anything higher. On a 30 on 30 special bet on this Friday's slate,
So FanDuel listened to me. I told them, let's do this. Let's try to get some profit boosts. Let's try to win the people some money. We started doing it. I've been tweeting out my picks on Friday. I look at the slate, start to get, I do like my favorite picks plus some long shots. I've been hitting the long shots. Just telling you, go check it out. I'll be tweeting those out on Fridays.
Be sure to claim your PBT. And place your 30 on 30 bet for Friday. Look for 30 on 30 in the FanDuel Sportsbook app. You can also look for the Ringer Sunday pregame show as well, which you do on FanDuel TV, on FanDuel's fast channel, and on YouTube TV, most importantly, at 11 ET on Sundays. Sal has been... Absolutely out of his mind hot. I think he's 12 and two on best bets.
And he's not shy about telling everybody that he talks to about how excited he is about that. So there you go. So on this podcast, I'm going to do an NBA six pack at the top because I had some NBA thoughts, even though we did a bunch of them on Tuesday with Goldsberry and Jacoby. I have more NBA thoughts. So we're going to do a six pack at the top.
I talked to Seth Wickersham from ESPN, who's been on here a few times to talk about NFL shenanigans and Bill Belichick craft stuff. So Belichick went to North Carolina. We had to deep dive that and we did it for almost an hour. It was really fun. And then last but not least, Million dollar picks are just hot. I don't know.
I was trying to think of another word that would sound less braggy, but hot is the word. Million dollar picks are hot. Joe House is going to be on at the end. We're going to try to keep it going. We're at almost $2 million profit of fake money, and we're going to see if we can bump it over there. But we've been on a good streak, and I really like the slate this week. So that is the podcast.
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