The Bill Simmons Podcast
The 2025 Made-Up NBA Awards, Plus Duke’s Collapse With Ryen Russillo
06 Apr 2025
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss Duke’s Final Four collapse vs. Houston, Cooper Flagg the NBA prospect, and Walter Clayton Jr.’s incredible performance vs. Auburn (2:29). Then they run through their extensive list of annual Made-Up NBA Awards (32:46). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Ryen Russillo Producers: Kyle Crichton, Chia Hao Tat, and Steve Ceruti 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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youtube channel as well uh i'm taping this right now it is late sunday morning pacific time tonight on the prestige tv podcast me and mally rubin and joanna robinson are going to be reacting to the white lotus season finale we're doing it live
on the ringer dash tv youtube channel right around 7 30 pt 10 30 et right after that episode ends we'll be going live and then you can listen and watch as a video podcast on spotify or get it on the ringer dash TV YouTube channel. So that's everything we got going. Don't forget about one shining podcast as well. They had a live reaction to the final four last night, which we're still in.
I are about to talk about a little bit. Uh, and then coming up right after the Monday night title game, uh, you can get that as well. Coming up on this podcast. We did it last year. We did the made up NBA awards with one week to go in the season. I had a great time. So we're bringing the gimmick back.
Me and Russell, we're also going to talk about Duke and just a colossal collapse last night that we have to discuss. So that's all coming next. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, we're taping this at 10.30 Pacific time. We're going to do the made-up NBA awards for the 24-25 season in a second.
Wanted to talk about the Final Four last night, specifically an unbelievable, unfathomable Duke collapse. One of the all-timers. Something that brought me back to where we were in college sports in the 80s, when shit like that seemed to happen way more often. Just watching. When did you start wondering... oh my God, are they going to blow this? Because for me, it was when they got the steal.
It was the 77-76 was the first time I was like, oh my God, they might actually lose this.
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