The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
13 Mar 2025
The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Kirk Goldsberry to discuss the Timberwolves' late-season surge, exciting Western Conference Round 1 playoff possibilities (2:26), the Thunder beating the Celtics for the second time this season (28:33), and Bill and Kirk's pitch to completely revitalize the NBA (51:10). Finally, Bill talks with his dad about being in TD Garden for the Thunder's 118-112 win against the Celtics, Patriots free agency buzz, the Bruins' decision to trade away longtime wing Brad Marchand, and more (01:16:45). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Kirk Goldsberry and Bill's dad Producers: Kyle Crichton and Chia Hao Tat The all-new, fully electric Audi Q6 e-tron is a new way to experience driving. Learn more at audiusa.com. 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
Full Episode
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Kirk Goldsberry and I are going to talk about some things we've noticed as we head into the home stretch of the NBA season. And then more importantly, Kirk's class did this big study of how to fix the NBA season. And we're going to dive into that. And it's really cool. And I urge you to continue to listen through the pod until we get to that part.
And then I brought my dad on because he wanted to do a Boston sports report and went to the OKC Celtic game last night. And I had to indulge him. Anyway, that is next. Here are our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, Kurt Goldsberry is here. You can read him on TheRinger.com. You can listen to him on various Ringer podcasts.
He is based in Austin, Texas, where we saw each other after a depressing Spurs-Suns game with no Wemby and with the Suns team imploding. We have something really good that we're going to talk about later in the pod, this big picture idea that I'm excited to throw at the world. Short term, There's been some stuff going on as we hit these last 20 games.
And I talked about this with Russillo two Sundays ago, that there's always a team right around now that starts making a surge like Dallas did last year, like the Celtics did a couple of years ago. And it's like, who, who's the team? We talked about possibilities kind of glossed over Minnesota. And Minnesota kicked Denver's ass last night. The three-point shooting has gotten way better.
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