The Bill Simmons Podcast
The 2025 NBA Worst Contracts Draft With Joe House and Wosny Lambre
Thu, 06 Mar 2025
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Joe House and Wosny Lambre to marvel at how well the Luka Doncic and Jimmy Butler trades have worked out for the Lakers and Warriors, respectively, and argue about whether the Cavaliers should be the favorite to win the Eastern Conference (2:46), before commencing the annual NBA Worst Contracts Draft (23:56). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Joe House and Wosny Lambre Producers: Kyle Crichton and Chia Hao Tat Order Michelob ULTRA today, available on Doordash! ENJOY RESPONSIBLY © 2025 ANHEUSER-BUSCH, MICHELOB ULTRA® LIGHT BEER, ST. LOUIS, MO. 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
What trades have revitalized the Lakers and Warriors?
So when they traded for him last year, he played 30 Charlotte games, 23.2 points a game. Yeah. 36% from three. Yeah. And was playing awesome and was like crunch time.
He was a good player. I thought Miami made a great pickup.
Yeah. This year... His stats are almost half. He's 11.8 points a game. He's shooting 40%. He's shooting 29% from three. And I test wise, he might be the worst rotation guy in the league. And I don't know what happened. And there's lots of theories floating around, not hard to find, but you know, it really seems like whatever, there might be a scandal with him.
There might not with some of this betting thing, but it really seems like it sent him into an absolute tailspin, but they keep playing him as the part I don't get house.
I wonder, you know, we can theorize about stuff that doesn't take us into uncomfortable territory. No team in the NBA has more double digit leads that they've coughed up in the fourth quarter than the Miami Heat.
And I, on the Ringer Gambling Podcast just this past Monday, said one of my favorite betting strategies over the last couple weeks, and will be until the end of the season, is to find situations where Miami has a lead going into the fourth quarter and watching them cough it up. They, down the stretch in the last six minutes of the game, have no apparent game plan. They did last night.
It's ISO to HERO. But Rozier's contribution to that. And again, who knows? I wonder if they quietly went to him and were like, dude, we're really not trying to make the playoffs. Well, so they're the seventh seed right now, 29 and 32.
Orlando's 29-34. Atlanta's 28-34. So they could fall to the ninth seed pretty easily if they wanted to. The shocking thing to me is they are a bottom half of the league from a talent standpoint. The weirdest thing to me that I think helps your theory house is why they didn't want Schroeder. Why don't they want him? Great point. Like they, they actively try to not keep him in the trade.
It's like that guy actually would have been a really fun heat that would have helped you. And now instead you're playing Terry Rozier. I don't, I've never seen some, somebody who is not past this prime, right? He was, he's, I think he was, I'm going to say he's 30. I've never seen somebody greater.
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