The Bill Simmons Podcast
Lakers-Warriors Takeaways, Wilt Chamberlain, 'White Lotus,' and Half-Baked Ideas With Rob Mahoney and Kevin Wildes
04 Apr 2025
The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Rob Mahoney to discuss what they learned from the Warriors' 123-116 road win vs. the Lakers, and a contentious race at the middle of the Western Conference standings, followed by some 'White Lotus' finale predictions (2:59). Then, Bill talks with Kevin Wildes about myriad sports topics (42:29), before unwrapping an extended edition of Half-Baked Ideas (01:12:26). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Rob Mahoney and Kevin Wildes Producers: Kyle Crichton, Chia Hao Tat, and Steve Ceruti Try Loom today, visit loom.com to get started. 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, Warriors, Lakers, White Lotus, half-baked ideas. Action Pack next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. Hey, I got a new Rewatchables coming this week because Kyle Brandt and I, we decided to do The Saint because Val Kilmer passed away. And we want to talk about Val Comer. We want to talk about a very bizarre movie that we both love.
So we're just putting it up this week. So Monday's podcast will be this weekend. The Saint. Be ready for it. You can watch it as a video on Spotify or you can watch it on the Ringer Movies YouTube channel. And then Sunday night, White Lotus. Season finale, right after it ends, we're going live on Ringer-TV, the YouTube channel that we have.
And we are recording our reaction podcast with me and Mally Rubin and Joanna Robinson. So you can watch us live on YouTube on Ringer-TV or just wait and watch it as a video podcast on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. I will also be doing a Sunday podcast with Rousseau that day as well. We'll see. I'm like LeBron. Can I still play at that kind of pace?
Can I still be a 40 minutes a game guy in the playoffs? We're going to find out on Sunday. Stay tuned. Coming up on this podcast, Rob Mahoney and I, we wanted to talk about Lakers-Warriors tonight because it was an important game and had a lot of playoff implications. And also just to see those two teams play who they are right now after the trades and what they look like against each other.
So we talked about that. Plus, White Lotus season finale. And then my old friend Kevin Wilds came on and we talked about, is April the greatest take month? Talked about Will Chamberlain. Talked about a bunch of stuff. And then we did a slew of half-baked ideas. So that's the pod. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, recording this a little before 10 o'clock Pacific time.
Rob Mahoney is here from the Prestige TV podcast. Oh, wait, you do basketball, too. I forgot. Occasionally, yeah. So we watched some basketball just now. Warriors, Lakers. A game that they used to kind of shove down our throats and we used to like it because Steph and LeBron weren't playing, but they were two ultimately harmless teams. And now they're actual contenders.
And it was a fascinating enough matchup with a lot at stake. And we decided to wait until afterwards to do a little pot about it. So what'd you learn? What was your number one thing you learned?
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