Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan
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Is tanking still possible in the NBA?
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Do you know this one friend who just comes out of bed in the morning and then doesn't come out of his grin? Who is even in front of the first coffee, shamelessly well-groomed and shines around the world with the morning sun? Terrible, disgusting, how can you just be so... Restless?
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We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. Put up a new Rewatchables on Monday. We did Meet the Parents. You can watch on the Ringer Movies YouTube channel as well. You can watch a whole bunch of Rewatchables podcasts on that as well. You can watch all the clips and videos from this podcast on the Bill Simmons YouTube channel. We got a two-parter today. I don't know. A lot going on. Wanted to talk basketball and wanted to talk about the Tyson fight and why NBA ratings are going down as interest seems to be going up. So I have Big Was, I have Van Lathan. They're joining us for part one. And then part two is going to be a football podcast that's going up later tonight after. I want to see what happens with that Eagles-Washington game too. So part two will go up much later.
Part one's going up early. And let's bring in our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, Big Waz is here. We're taping this 1230 Thursday afternoon. Last time I saw you, we were doing the league pass rankings. Yep. And trying to figure out who we like the most, who we were the most excited to watch. What's changed for you since the season has started? Has there been a team jump out? Has there been somebody that captured your fancy? Has there been a new league pass mistress for you that you didn't expect to be cheating on with some of the other favorites?
Yeah, and I owe a big apology to Justin Verrier. It's the Chicago Bulls. Oh, look at you. I thought the Bulls were going to be fun, and Josh Kitty was going to have this new role, and DeMar DeRozan was going to open things up, but they've been way better than I could have expected. Obviously, they beat the Knicks last night on a crazy last-second foul on a three-point shot, but they're just so well-coached. Kobe White's hair got fouled.
I know. I really think that's what happened. I thought he hit his hair. I've never seen that before.
That is what happened. I don't think he actually fouled him. But, you know, he airballed the shot to make it look like he got hit pretty bad. But yeah, it's Kobe White. It's Zach Levine, who I don't know if it's he's found clarity in his role on the Bulls or if he's really dying to get traded because he was so unhappy this offseason. Like, I just thought, you know, they lost their most consistent player in DeRozan. Zach Levine has been sulking for, like, a year and a half. They're bringing in Josh Giddey, ushering a kind of youth movement kind of thing. I just thought they would stink, and it's been the opposite. And Vucevic... He's been playing some of the best ball of his career. He's taking and making threes.
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