The Bill Simmons Podcast
An OKC-Houston Slugfest, MJ on NBC, and a Seven-Week NFL Awards Draft With Danny Kelly, Danny Heifetz, and Craig Horlbeck
22 Oct 2025
Bill reacts to the start of the NBA season with OKC's defeat of the Rockets in a double-OT nail-biter (2:32). Then, Danny Heifetz, Craig Horlbeck, and Danny Kelly of The Ringer Fantasy Football Show join the pod to have a midseason check-in draft (22:17). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Danny Heifetz, Craig Horlbeck, and Danny Kelly Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Don’t settle for just any insurance when there’s State Farm. Presented by @MichelobULTRA #ULTRACourtside LDA 21 and over. Drink responsibly. 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
The Bill Simmons Podcast brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. We are also brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network. I put up a new Rewatchables on Monday night. It was the last episode of Redford Month. We did Quiz Show, a movie that he directed. It was me and Brian Koppelman, so you can find that wherever you get your pods, preferably on Spotify.
Also, Prestige TV, we broke down the last episode of Task. Is it the season? Is it the series? I guess it's just the season. We will find out. But it was me and Joanne Robinson and Rob Mahoney talking about that on TheRinger.com. We did a bunch of basketball stuff this week. We have a bunch of basketball podcasts and we're about to talk basketball at the top of this podcast.
I had the shrewd idea, veteran experience, because we have a full podcast. We did a whole football thing. Me, Danny Kelly, Danny Heifetz, Craig Korbeck. We handed out some after seven weeks awards. We came up with a dopey draft gimmick that was really fun, actually, and basically broke down the whole season. And it could have been its own podcast.
But something in my head was like, OKC versus Houston. We should wait to see what happens in this game. And maybe that could be the lead of my podcast. So my instincts were correct. The veteran, Bill Simmons. He's seen some things in his day. Anyway, we're going to talk about that at the top. And then a big, big football.
After seven weeks, I don't even know what the gimmick is that we did, that you would call it. But I had a really good time. It's all next. We'll take a break. Then Pearl Jam. This is the Bill Simmons Podcast presented by FanDuel. If you're betting on the NFL... Come on. Findo is the place to do it. They've got everything. Same game parlays, quick bets for when you want to jump in live.
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Get in a problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit rg-help.com. Call 888-789-777 or visit ccpg.org slash chat in Connecticut. All right, OKC versus Houston was the first game tonight. It was on NBC, so was Warriors-Lakers, which is happening right now as I'm recording this because I'm recording after the OKC-Houston game. Listen, we've seen a million Warriors games.
We've seen the Lakers without LeBron. We know what we're getting from that game. We did not know what we were getting. from OKC Houston, and what we got was an absolute masterpiece. Double overtime. Houston had chances in regulation. OKC tied it with two seconds left. SGA just went into MVP kick-ass mode down the stretch there.
OKC and OT had big leads, started missing threes, missed a Crusoe dunk. Houston comes back. Tie game. KD does the Chris Webber timeout. They don't call it. We go into double OT, and then... SGA just kind of took over. And then all of a sudden he didn't because Shangoon hit this runner and Houston was up. And then the last position in the game, SGA on the side, KD guarding him.
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