The NBA’s Danger Cycle, Plus Usyk Is Invincible, ‘Landman’ Can’t Lose, and Chalamet Will Win the Oscar With Chris Mannix and Chris Ryan

1231.315 - 1259.345 Bill Simmons

Couldn't have worked out better. Well, we immediately hit the danger zone again in 2003. We have the Kobe incident and the trial. Not great. We have the 2003 and 2004 finals, which were rock fights, and ESPN Classic and NBA TV Hardware Classics, I think, are banned from showing any of those games. Defense got too good. The game got too physical. We had Kobe and Shaq falling apart.