The Bill Simmons Podcast
Denver Survives! Suddenly Dramatic Playoff Weekend Alert With Rob Mahoney
16 May 2025
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Rob Mahoney to react to Thunder-Nuggets Game 6 and preview a must-win Game 7 on Sunday (2:06). Then, they discuss whether or not the Celtics have a chance to take Game 6 against the Knicks (35:12). Finally, they talk about the Timberwolves and their chances in the WCF (51:39). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Rob Mahoney 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, Nuggets, Thunder headed to a game seven. I'm talking about the Rob Mahoney along with a lot more basketball next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. Have a do rewatchables coming for you on Monday night. We did Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Just an awesome, awesome movie. See the whole weekend. Watch. We got no basketball on Saturday. We had a OKC in Denver.
It's headed to a game seven Celtics Knicks on Friday night. And then if that's a game seven, that's going to be in Boston on Monday. So no Saturday game. for us. I guess we're just going to have to watch movies. You can watch Close Encounters. I talked to Rob Mahoney. We did it live on YouTube and we had a great time talking about, can Jokic keep this going? Can OKC hold on?
Lots of great basketball storylines. Rob threw some water on me with the Celtics game six. It's all next. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, we're live on YouTube. Bill Simmons here with Rob Mahoney. The Studio, episode nine. So I really liked what they... Oh, wait, what podcast is this? Talking basketball. We get a seventh game. We get one more Jokic game.
We do.
We get OKC versus Denver, which has been an absolutely awesome, awesome series. I felt myself getting sad in the first half when OKC started to pull away. And I was like, oh, man, what a journey this has been with Jokic with this weird team and his teammates that are either hurt or they don't show up. Then they're good again. Then they're not good. And he's the one constant.
And I guess this is how it's going to end. And then it flips. It's a borderline Strother game, but not really. There's some Murray in there. There's Jokic. There are some heroes. Russell Westbrook, not a hero.
No, no. I think we can give Julian Strother credit for this one as the Julian Strother game.
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