The Bill Simmons Podcast
The NBA Playoffs Mega-Preview. Plus, Awards Picks With Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst
18 Apr 2025
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Rob Mahoney and Chris Ryan to talk about the playoff matchups they’re most excited about before they discuss their NBA awards picks (2:45). Then, Brian Windhorst joins to discuss Luka, international basketball, LeBron, and much more (1:22:09). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Rob Mahoney, Chris Ryan, and Brian Windhorst Producers: Chia Hao Tat, Jessie Lopez, and Steve Ceruti Get anything delivered on Uber Eats. www.ubereats.com 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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So we have episode eight coming on Monday night. And it's the one about how everything turns in the 2000s heading into the KG era. It's really good. You're not going to believe this, but KG is a good interview. So you can check that out on Monday night. But in the meantime, because there's no basketball, we have a couple of playing games and then everything kicks in this weekend.
But go check out Celtic City on Max. The first seven episodes are up. I was on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night promoting. It was great to go back. It's been 21 years since I worked. for that show, which is incredible. Right now, there's 21-year-old people probably insulting me and Jimmy on social media right now. That's how long it's been since I worked there, but it was awesome to go back.
Coming up on this podcast, Rob Mahoney and Chris Ryan join me. We're going to preview our favorite round one playoff series. And then I'm going to do my NBA awards picks and bounce them off those guys once and for all. So that happened. And then a couple of days ago, Brian Windhorst came over to watch one of the playing games with me.
And we just went into my office and we taped an hour plus about just a whole bunch of evergreen basketball talk, which was really fun. It was great to see him. I've known him for a long time. So that is today's podcast. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, recording this part of the podcast on late Thursday morning Pacific time. Rob Mahoney is here.
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