The Bill Simmons Podcast
Celts-Knicks, the Sleeper Lakers, and 12 NBA Stories to Watch With Ryen Russillo
24 Feb 2025
NBA Sundays are back! The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss the Celtics' 118-105 win over the Knicks (3:45), before hitting the biggest NBA subplots for the remaining regular season, including: the massively intriguing Lakers, the late-bloomer Warriors (27:49), the perplexing Timberwolves, the despondent Suns, and the outwardly miserable 76ers (0:00). Then, they close the show with some rapid-fire topics, including searching for Ja Morant, the wild-card Pistons, All-NBA battles, "Tank-a-Palooza" starting to heat up, and more (1:31:46)! Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Ryen Russillo Producers: Kyle Crichton and Chia Hao Tat This episode is sponsored by State Farm®. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.® 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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Uh, one thing to promote Celtic city, our nine part Celtics docu series that we did for HBO and max is going to be Sunday, March 3rd, the first episode, nine straight weeks in a row. Uh, Spent four years on this, obviously meant a lot to me. And I think we did an awesome job. I can't wait for everybody to see it. I'm in Boston because we did.
the premiere on Friday night had a bunch of people that I got to talk to Joe Mazzola about the town. So exciting. Joe Mazzola, I'm making him come on the podcast. He was a, he was a really fun Hank, but, uh, but we had a really fun premiere of episode five, which was about, um, a part of the eighties with the Celtics.
So, you know, that's in my wheelhouse, but, uh, very excited for everybody to watch it. And we'll be talking about a bunch over the next, um, next few weeks. So I wanted to mention FanDuel because on Tuesday on FanDuel Sportsbook, you have the Mavs and the Lakers playing for the first time since the blockbuster trade.
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