The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA’s Wacky West, Tales From Augusta, and the Baby Doll Chronicles | With Joe House, Cousin Sal, Nathan Hubbard, Dave Chang, and Baby Doll
11 Apr 2025
The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Joe House to discuss the Grizzlies' significant loss to the Timberwolves as the regular season comes down to the wire, and the most fun first round western conference matchups, and Luka Doncic returning to Dallas with the Lakers (2:16). Then Bill, House and Nathan Hubbard discuss Round 1 of the Masters, the top 4 gallery-favorite golfers this year, before trying to figure out who the golfer of the decade is (28:59). Finally Bill, Dave Chang, Cousin Sal, and James "Baby Doll" Dixon recount some of Thursday's highlights while they were at Augusta National, run through the greatest hits of Sal's many pranks, and dive deeper into the legend of Baby Doll (55:24). Host: Bill Simmons Guests:Joe House, Nathan Hubbard, Cousin Sal, Dave Chang, and James "Baby Doll" Dixon Producers: Kyle Crichton, Ronak Nair, and Jonathan Frias 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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We're doing 30 on 30 on Fridays where you can bet on 30-point scores for the last Friday of the NBA regular season. I'll be tweeting out my picks at some point on Friday. Coming up on this podcast, Joe House and I stayed up late here on the East Coast to watch Minnesota-Memphis. Minnesota.
convincing we're going to talk about that with the west picture looks like for the playoffs headed into the final weekend of the season and then we talk about the masters me and house and nathan hubbard our fairway rolling house we were at the course all day today noticed a lot of stuff we're going to talk about that and then last but not least we had james baby doll dixon on the tuesday pod uh
A lot of questions from listeners, from people in my life. What's going on with that guy? So we dove into it with me and Sal and Chang and Babydoll, and we went for a full hour with them. So this is quite a podcast. I think we should bring in our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, we're taping this past midnight on the East Coast because we are here in Augusta, Georgia.
We're going to talk a lot of golf. We're going to do a big baby doll deep dive later. We have a lot of good stuff coming up on this podcast. But Joe House is here, and we stayed up late to watch Minnesota-Memphis, a game that yet again had dramatic Western Conference ramifications. Minnesota wins. Minnesota now the 7 seed. Memphis now the 8 seed.
Looking like they're going to get absolutely slaughtered by OKC.
Wait a minute. Yeah, unless.
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