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The Bill Simmons podcast is brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where I popped on the Prestige TV podcast this week. We talked about The Better Sister, did a rewatchables on Monday. It was a really good one. We did Out for Justice, the Steven Scull classic. I had a great time. I think I'm turning this into New York month.
on the rewatchables because we're doing Working Girl on Monday, which is a great movie from the 80s. Harrison Ford's in it, Melanie Griffiths, Sigourney Weaver. It's a really, really, really, really good New York movie. Just a good movie in general. It's dated in all the right ways. So that's coming Monday. So you have the weekend to watch it. I think it's on Hulu or Paramount.
It's on one of those. And it's all over the place. You'll be able to find it. So check out Working Girl. It's a really good one. And maybe we'll do New York Month. Lots of movies filmed in New York. A lot of options left. You have to wait and see. Coming up on this podcast, Zach Lowe and I decided to do a live stream right after game one of the 2025 NBA finals.
And we were assuming that OKC, who was nine and a half point favorites on FanDuel, that they were going to easily win. And then game two would be the game. That's not what happened. Indiana came back and it was awesome. And we jumped right on YouTube live after that. And everything we did was we recorded eight minutes after the game. So that's what you're about to hear.
We're going to take a break. We're going to bring in Pearl Jam. And then Zach Lowe and I breaking down an incredible game one of the 2025 finals next. Let's go. This episode is presented by State Farm. It's no secret that great teams need great teammates. I've been saying this for years.
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Coverage options are selected by the customer availability and eligibility vary by state. We were assuming it would be an OKC 20-point easy win. We would have to make weird OKC conversation because they're a hard team to talk about. And then Indiana was like, I can't even speak. Indiana was like, we're Michael Myers. You thought we were dead.
We fell out of the deck in the back and we landed on our back and you looked out there and all of a sudden we weren't there and we just keep coming and coming and eventually we get you and you don't know what happened. I can't speak.
I've come to the conclusion that I just don't get the Indiana Pacers. I don't get how they do this. I don't get how there's at least one game every series where they do this. It's Halliburton at the end of every game with the last shot emerging. I mean, like, the number of clutch shots he's made this season in this playoffs, this is like an all-time legendary crunch time heater.
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