The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Luke Kornet Game and Tatum’s Road Back With David Jacoby. Plus, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert
15 May 2025
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by David Jacoby to react to the Celtics taking Game 5 against the Knicks and Jayson Tatum’s injury (3:42). Then, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert joins to discuss where the league is, Caitlin Clark, and much more (01:09:16). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: David Jacoby and Cathy Engelbert Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo 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, the Celtics are still alive and we're going to talk some WNBA. Yeah. How about that podcast? It's all next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where I have a new Rewatchables coming next Monday because it's still big ass 70s month. We did Death Wish this week. Next week, we're doing Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Steven Spielberg, 1977. Huge movie.
Awesome movie. It's going to be me and Sean and Chris Ryan. We also did a little thing for Ringer Movies about the Superman trailer. If you subscribe to the Ringer Movies YouTube channel, you can subscribe to the Bill Simmons YouTube channel as well, where I'm going to be going live tomorrow night, Thursday, with Rob Mahoney after OKC Denver Game 6. Four podcasts this week. It's that time of year.
A lot of basketball going on. We didn't even get to talk with Dave Jacoby, who's coming up in a second, about Warriors Minnesota because that series was over the moment Steph Curry got hurt. Jimmy Butler, at this point in his career, was not able to win Golden State a game, no shots fired at Jimmy Butler.
I just think he's at a slightly different stage of his career and Minnesota is really, really good. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about Minnesota versus whoever wins tomorrow night, um, with Rob Mahoney tomorrow night. We'll see if the Joker has one more great performance in him. Um, Stay tuned. So that's tomorrow night.
Today's podcast, talking to Dave Jacoby about Celtics-Knicks game five, the Tatum injury, the fallout, some thoughts after having a day to sit with it and the Knicks, the spot they're in, and a whole bunch of topics that came out of tonight, the Luke Cornett game. And then WNBA commissioner Kathy Engelbert came on to talk about the upcoming season, where the league is at big picture.
And I just wanted to pick her brain because the league is at a fascinating moment right now as it heads into almost its third decade. So that was a really fun conversation. We taped that on Monday. And before we get to the podcast, just wanted to remind everybody on FanDuel, I'm doing Taylor Fade every week, and we're going to be doing it for Thursday night's OKC Denver game.
And that is going to be a prop with Jokic points rebounds. I'm going over. I would advise you to tell me, but you can go check it out. They add a profit boost to it. So go check out the FanDuel Sportsbook app before the game on Thursday. Anyway, big podcast coming first. Our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, recording this part of the podcast a little before 7PT.
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