Secrets of the NBA-TNT Divorce | ‘The Town’ with Bill Simmons

[@minaguta4147]

I just wish we could get Belloni's face closer to the camera.

[@michaelrupp5885]

Pretty sure I saw some spit from his lisp fly out a few times. Solid guy though!

[@nachooooo7019]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Freshdre]

Good god he’s obnoxious

[@Ketovorepinoy1]

😂

[@him4882]

Nobody is covering these kinds of topics with this level of depth and insight in the sports world. These are the kinds of things casual fans can’t even wrap their minds around and so we don’t get this content from literally anyone else who talks about basketball infront of a camera.

[@tonymanhawkin]

Dan LeBetard covers this type of content a bit as well

[@ltownvidz]

This guy sounded like sports media business house

[@GabaGhoul10]

House knows how to turn his face forward to the camera at least.

[@AKS55555]

Sports Media Business House would have at least known his camera was on that whole time

[@grindhardt]

this is when bill is at his best. love a charged up rant about how ESPN is failing, especially with its NBA crew. he’s spot on too. inside the NBA is infinitely better than whatever garbage is on at halftime on ESPN.

[@baronessvondengler]

Imagine thinking Netherlands is the same as Sweden 💀💀

[@barrymaslow8441]

In 2024?! In America?! Thas easy.

[@puhlease4289]

Whoaaa it’s not? Darn Mandela effects 😮

[@liamdevine8063]

Hahaha I think he got confused as Netherlands is often also referred to as Holland.

[@LYSoup]

Bill not even addressing that. He prob doesn't know either💀💀

[@TimothyFitzgerald-s8w]

Bill is not Dumb at all. He is a boderline savant. His articles back when he still wrote were amazing.

[@simonrebello1923]

I'm here for the geographical outrage. 😂

[@SuperAdamkovics]

same

[@oovauhsoj]

RIP Geography

[@electric1644]

“All of these countries are 9, 10 hours difference “. Ha! Try 5,6,7.

[@danieljordan9004]

I can tell you why ratings. Bill says it’s because it’s too watered down, but that makes zero sense to me. I live in OKC, I am a diehard OKC fan, and I watched all 82 games since they arrived, but now I can’t watch on any platform. I have KZbin TV for my cable and they aren’t available. I tried NBA league pass and the games are blacked out. The NBA isn’t the NFL. The majority of the people watching are fans watching their local team. If you make it impossible for people like me who want to watch their local games you’re going to miss out on the ratings. Other than the playoffs, I only watched a handful of Thunder games last season, and I have watched a single game this season and they’ve been the 1 seed in the West that entire time. Out of 100 or so regular season game since last season I’ve seen 5 games. I would have watched 100 out of 100 if they gave me an option. I pay for NFL league pass to watch the 49ers. If I could get Thunder games on League Pass I’d but it too. It’s insane that people are confused about the ratings being lower. What do you think is going to happen when you make it impossible for a teams biggest fans to watch their local team game? It’s an easy fix. Make the Thunder games available for me and thousands of other OKC fans and the ratings will go up immediately.

[@burgercheezes]

Same thing with baseball. Local games are always blacked out. What’s the point of these passes if you screw the local fans either way.

[@kpNov23]

Preach

[@LukaLegend77]

streameast or buffstreams or nbabite, just stream dude its 2024 not 2004

[@steves9964]

@@burgercheezes The packages were designed for out-of-town fans such as the OP being a 49er fan living outside of the Bay Area, sports bars and the like. Locally they want you to pay for a carrier to watch your teams. I wish that weren't true but there's no way these conglomerates and billionaires are going to make something easier or cheaper for us. They're going to offer something you want, but it's always for a premium. I'm glad the ratings are down as this is the only thing that will flip the balance back the other way. Good on the OP's desire to watch the Thunder every night. I used to be that way with the Knicks, and that was way back when it was first to 80 wins. I find today's game mostly unwatchable, with the exception of certain teams, bigger games and playoffs. Everyone plays the same, there are way too many threes, guys sit all the damn time and instead of addressing it leadership introduces something ridiculous like the NBA cup. Yup, let's make the NBA like European soccer where there are 88 trophies up for grabs on an annual basis. I guess that's why I'm no longer part of the target demographic.

[@ClipTale]

why wouldn't you watch them off a pirate streaming site instead of just watching none of their games lol?

[@KK-pm7ud]

If Kendrick Perkins and Malika Andrews are on Inside The NBA, I'm not watching. Wilbon has become a clown, but at least he's a real expert with journalism experience.

[@Mr.JoseyWales]

Even Wilbon is a stretch. He’s becoming a grumpy old man

[@thomasbrown3325]

Wilbon was a first-rate columnist at the Post, but on tv he exemplifies the Peter Principle.

[@bagbroch9339]

“The Netherlands is the same as Sweden” 🫡

[@YersiniaPestisNPO]

Classic American education

[@terry7907]

Well, they are both Full of tall, blonde people who speak English better than most Americans.

[@jamesdrummond7684]

"Poland is part of the Nordic countries"

[@ThePenitentSquirrel]

@@YersiniaPestisNPO What coast is Washington on?

[@ThePenitentSquirrel]

@@jamesdrummond7684 The Poles are Slavs which is easy to tell because they lack the Round head of Fin, the troll like quality of a Norwegian (/Mountain Ape I have heard it's interchangeable) or reek of fermented herring like the common Swede... as for Iceland and Denmark... F'k'em their barely real countries anyway.

[@brinnyxtreme]

yeah you deserve the credit for reporting it bill

[@King_JappyJoe]

Comedy Central isnt driven by the Daily Show 😂😂😂. South Park makes more money off Merchandise ALONE than Daily Show

[@Zbehdnrhcjrben]

However, Paramount does not have the digital rights to SP. One of their many dumb decisions.

[@King_JappyJoe]

@@Zbehdnrhcjrben this all goes back to their mishandling of Chappelles Show dvd/digital sales. South Park was able to argue for their rights back and now license them accordingly. Just as bad a call as giving Trevor Noah The Daily show when he brought down ratings 60%.

[@devilfriend]

So they got literally $100 million back just by filling the lawsuit and you're asking if it was worth it? lol

[@Diovolente]

Drop in the bucket for these companies but WB has shown to be penny pinchers so probably a W in there eyes

[@ryanblosser6081]

Yea but the way the whole thing (not just the lawsuit) went down will turn others off from getting together with them in the future

[@McMasher]

The one thing WBD did that I thought was great was streaming ncaa tournament games on max. In those early rounds with a million games I was able to get every one I wanted

[@projectpence]

Max streaming is fantastic. Maybe the best streaming of live sports currently IMO. Peacock does great too.

[@NoellaScott]

Hard to see this Matthew fella! Someone tell him to squeeze in and get an even wider lens

[@angryman132]

Im sorry that geography was so bad Poland in the Nordics? Had me losing my shit

[@barrymaslow8441]

Engrish?! Good shit!

[@barrymaslow8441]

Slob

[@DanStrayer]

In a country where Stanford and Cal are in the Atlantic Coast Conference, it’s not THAT shocking.

[@MaxPowerPT]

@@DanStrayerwhat, really?

[@bosfor666]

You shut your mouth, we the Nordics now!

[@TimDanielson670]

Love listening to Simmons and his co-hosts exposing their education and preparation by trying to figure out who Emirates is (BTW, based in Dubai, not Abu Dhabi) and what countries are Nordic. Geography baby!

[@leungsz]

Americans unfortunately have a reputation of not being good with geography lol

[@dreamcage1801]

Cable tv is on a decline and people can’t afford cable tv no more since they got too greedy

[@adammacfarlane3732]

“Everything ends badly otherwise it would never end” is such a hard quote

[@rinripark]

Huge fumble by Amazon by not scooping up Inside the NBA. Maybe they never had a chance but denying espn that show would have been a real blow to them.

[@davidjones7827]

Now all that has to happen is for people to start watching NBA games again.

[@future62]

People are watching.... on illegal streams. If the NBA wants to get its ratings back up.... they gotta tear down the paywalls.

[@iank3924]

I won't but I'll watch KZbin

[@g.holland4862]

😂

[@scarletspider1240]

Not looking that’s gonna this year. ☺️

[@FSVR54]

we do, on streams

[@ziggle5000]

It's crazy that we've had this format for media for as long as we have and there are people like this who can't figure out how to place a camera.

[@JeewanthaBandara]

Netherlands legitimized the US by providing their first international credit line in 1780. And now they are apparently the same as Sweden.

[@rocsreviews1230]

Learn irrelevant things everyday

[@kylesteiner50]

I wake up every morning and reflect how diff my life would be if the Dutch didn’t provide my great great great great great great great great granddaddy credit in the 1700s lol. Such a Clown comment

[@Maximilian1990]

And netherlands nowadays doesn't even exist as a sovereign country. Instead it got assimilated into a slow ineffective soviet deterrent whose only purpose nowadays is handing free money to third world countries like greece or croatia

[@Recontramojado]

I always found amazing that Bill can do thorough research on topics and is willing to invite informed people to discuss it beyond the usual hot takes and then he is so incredibly and willfully ignorant about basic stuff outside US. A microcosm of how deep in their own butts americans are.

[@pattyweston-mg8kz]

no. 1. cares

[@Davivd2]

Bill is on point about the format of Inside The NBA. If the format, or the air time that the cast gets changes, it will fall flat on it's face. ESPN/Disney is like the ultimate corporate, managed, ultra-PC, micro-manged to the last penny organization. Turner was the opposite. They let their guys have space. Wait until ESPN tries to censor Barkley, or replace him with a woman of color for diversity reasons. ESPN is already doing that to their own hosts.

[@iTuber012]

Speaking of rich guys, I was shocked to learn how rich Bill was exactly... But good for him. He understands ownership very well

[@DJV7893]

I love Bill trying to sneak a pat on the back for his doc with Netflix and get Bellamy to compliment him. The Mcmahon doc was overrated. It didnt unravel or tell us anything new. It was just a Retelling of Mcmahons life. And Bills acting like his sport doc was revolutionary lol.

[@timmutohfan]

it was new to bill and he made the thing.. who didnt know gorilla was set to takeover before vince k stepped up?

[@abuyusufabdulhakim952]

Overreach on that comment 😂 He just expressed surprise at how many people have Netflix

[@ghostkid1118]

Was this from Tuesdays pod? Cause I can't find this on Spotify

[@BornNguyener]

It’s on The Towns podcast feed Bill just posted on his KZbin channel

[@braziliantvhd2768]

He didn't even do one because he wanted to waste time on this that nobody but cares about but

[@akabancopop]

We need to just settle on a universal webcam angle for these. Belloni looks like he's eating out of a trough.

[@JPW3]

Wringing hands over the NBA. An all-American tradition.

[@MCordell09]

“Of course you have the Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland, uh…Cambodia, Madagascar, El Salvador, and uhhhhh Panama City Beach…”

[@soysaucehairdye7869]

Poland has Robert Lewandowski, Hubi, Iga, kielbasa, and four people to screw in a light bulb.

[@guangdong6805]

Don't forget Jeremy Sochan

[@DanStrayer]

But it lost the recipe for ice, soooooo…

[@tylerblair318]

At the absolute peak of WB yoinking my money, I was paying for cable which they got 37% of my package monthly, so they got $49 every month because my package was $135 roughly every month, plus the HBO Max subscription I had which was $15. They lost $64 a month from me. Now let's also account for this, I used to buy a shit load of Blu-rays. So probably once or twice a month at least I was buying a Blu-ray for $10-$30 every single month, now all that stuff is on Max, so why bother? So now you're losing like $30 additionally every single month. That totals to $94. That doesn't even include the amount of money I used to spend on their video games like Mortal Kombat, Batman Arkham, and more that they just don't release often enough anymore and if they do they are often shit. I went from probably giving WB like $1000 of my money per year to like only giving them my $15 a month for Max and occasionally seeing a movie like "Barbie" in theaters and having to buy 4 tickets for my GF and stuff. That's fucking abysmal. This shit is definitely gonna collapse sooner than later.

[@AlexM-yw7xw]

Bill: - when you factor Poland, maybe it's a great deal for them Me, listening the episode from Poland: 😮😮😮

[@Bluefooted23]

Maybe don't spoil the plot of series that just came out, Bill. WTF was that?

[@dreamcage1801]

I’m just happy that the NBA is back on NBC where it belongs

[@NoellaScott]

Bill can't see the forest for the trees on the NBA - it's the fact the league is soft, the stars whine and sit, everyone is "injured", and it's a three point contest. These guys can't even get up for the All-Star Game! I miss the 90s and 00s desperately. It's not entertaining.

[@jacobc4320]

right on. if the players don't care you the games, why would the fans?

[@hankhillsnrrwurethra]

Richardson: take me out, man. Not feeling good. NFL: You're a quarterback wtf?!?

[@NoellaScott]

@@hankhillsnrrwurethra Great point! He was roundly mocked and lambasted. He's a rookie, not a superstar.

[@NoellaScott]

@@jacobc4320 I don't anymore. I bought the NBA package for so many years when I barely had any money. Now as an adult with money to spend? No thanks.

[@ReubenBarrett1989]

I find inside the nba more entertaining than the actual NBA.

[@victorvic4659]

Why no podcast yesterday?

[@GabaGhoul10]

“We need Barkley’s comments on like, fried chicken in Atlanta.” 👀

[@AdamKontras]

Yeah that made me react too. LMAO

[@Ascentant]

Does the guy on the right realize his webcam is on?

[@LocoSunny]

Espn is too cringe to not mess it up. I'll watch it on KZbin

[@simondaughtry4619]

My last seasons watching the NBA were LeBron with the Heat.... been barren since.... 3 pointers mean nothing to me anymore... ITS BORING. Players are so wealthy and under educated its frightening.

[@kpNov23]

It's

[@pattyweston-mg8kz]

LMAO nobody cares lol, the nba literally took off even more after that season your talking about, two years later was the most watched finals game ever outside of jordans last game as a bull, stfu and complain to someone who cares

[@ErikBergs]

Anthony Edwards is the next great superstar and being in a mid-market Minnesota team might actually make his swagger more tolerable for a national audience. It's not a small market team like Cleveland or OKC, it's also a bit of a blank slate with no deep-rooted rivalries. Also Minnesota could be the team that switches conferences with expansion which could add a bit more interest if they are making deep playoff runs as he ages into his prime. The NBA can constantly force Minnesota into any timeslots that they need for whatever marketing purpose they're trying to achieve and not get the same blow-back as they'd get for a major team on the east coast or west coast. AE just needs to build his brand a few more years and start winning some rings.

[@oliverqueen5604]

Is this from a full pod or he just doing KZbin only videos now

[@coreyfinnegan5552]

Apparently geography ain’t this guys strong suit. Poland is a Nordic country? The Netherlands is the same thing as Sweden? Lol

[@chokistick9581]

🤯

[@rubaiyat300]

My guess is he made the mistake of confusing the Netherlands with Denmark which is surprisingly common for whatever reason. No idea what the Poland thing is about.

[@DanStrayer]

Best guess: he confused Sweden with Holland. Which IS the same as The Netherlands. Not good considering he’s on a Spotify platform, but I reckon that’s where he got confused.

[@pstratos7]

Guy on the right sounds a pretty uninformed on most topics

[@pattyweston-mg8kz]

oh no he doesn't play pdx game and didn't take geo in college or late hs oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@preslove]

The nba is the main reason I have max throughout the year. I'm going to churn off of max next year.

[@JohnnyCashavetes]

Trying to watch this, but oh my god, who cares about a conversation about sports rights assets between two men who think Poland is a Nordic country.

[@bensmith3926]

What on earth is that geography 😂😂😂

[@liamdevine8063]

If a guy like Stephen A had achieved even a smidgen of what Bill has can you imagine how often we'd hear him say it? Bill is so understated, sign of a true mensch.

[@thejonesbass]

Well bill is worth 100m SAS is worth 25m....sounds like a smidgen to me, and we do hear him beat his chest often 😂so no need to imagine

[@pattyweston-mg8kz]

ew wtf

[@liamdevine8063]

Achievement doesn't mean wealth bud. But even if it did, Stephen A's achievement is being worth a quarter what Bill is worth? Hahaha. Thanks for supporting my point bud, appreciated.

[@liamdevine8063]

@@pattyweston-mg8kz right back at you patty lol

[@thejonesbass]

@liamdevine8063 lmao you implied he doesn't have a smidgen I'm saying he has a quarter of his wealth, that's literally the upper end of a smidgen 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 PS Yes, wealth is a KEY indicator of achievement in a capitalist society like the USA 🇺🇸

[@mikeyjonesgoesboom]

Is there any way the dude on the right could not speak so Bill can explain this thing

[@indigo5577]

I root for whatever keeps sports on cable. The only inevitability of these mergers is that paying customers get fucked over. Fuck your MAX and your Netflix and your Amazon Prime, I want to turn the TV on and see the game.

[@Funkmania.]

Bill calling AEW "budget WWE" personally offended me

[@timmutohfan]

the truth will do that.

[@FortunateKidd]

Me too cause it’s greatly disingenuous to the boom that was caused by this “low budget WWE” company. Every one loves Cody but gives no credence to the mere existence of AEW being the reason for business growth

[@Funkmania.]

@@FortunateKidd Awesome point!

[@Funkmania.]

@@timmutohfan Hahaha

[@timmutohfan]

@@FortunateKidd you call what aew has going on a "boom"?

[@seantp3303]

So that’s why they let Zach Lowe go.

[@DamianBuczma41]

Poland was top 3 countries with the most league pass subs last season.

[@DeepSweetSoulful]

Watching NBA from Colombia

[@abrajamlincolnman]

Simmons was on this from the start. Well done, Bill. 👏

[@patrickkelly737]

Mergers also have to do with rampant monopolies and lack of enforcement of antitrust laws the last few decades

[@projectpence]

Hearing Bill trash AEW is hilarious since he's had a working relationship with WWE for years.

[@btowhidi_1713]

Everyone is talking about NBA ratings being down. I honestly think that literally applies to every single sport. There are soo much more entertainment options these days and no one is going to sit and watch a full game for 3 hours. Ratings are down for all sports across the board. Also, ratings being down doesn’t mean the popularity is down. Cricket is the most watched sport in the world but Lebron is way more popular than any cricket player. Most watched sport

[@dreamcage1801]

I would go to a live game and watch for 3 hours

[@btowhidi_1713]

@ yess live game is different. I would to.M because it’s an entirely different experience. I don’t the game attendances are down. Ratings are definitely down.

[@chrisszyyy]

The IWC is gonna go crazy with their AEW comments

[@CEE-ji5rx]

Bill needs to ballwash the NBA's garbage product some more.

[@DoobieKeebler]

Said Poland too soon. Poland is the country you're not supposed to forget about, not the country you start with. (God, I'm old. 😆)

[@jackjbrewster7799]

I know I sound like a small child wondering into an advanced economics discussion but is any consideration given to the fact that TNT has been a loyal and valuable partner for nearly 40 years? I know what the current property is, I can't guarantee that ESPN hits the same criteria. Just on the "Inside the NBA" show alone how long do we have before Stephen A takes over the Shaq part or just pops on mid-sentence? Also, their broadcast teams just aren't as good.

[@pstratos7]

@@jackjbrewster7799 they mention the fact that everyone at tnt who has long relationships with the league was fired by the new wb executive zaslow, which is why the nba in turn felt no loyalty toward them in the negotiation

[@bigdick1267]

Ohh they will def push to get a black woman on the show...

[@derrickw3360]

that fight that Netflix had with Tyson and Paul was a disaster. I couldnt even watch the fight until after its over. Lets not act like they are the best at doing live TV. Literally everyone i spoke to had a problem connecting to actually watch the fight. Maybe rich people didnt have that problem but regular people did.

[@Amphibiousmage]

Bill's take on this is so pigeonholed. He doesn't realize theres a reality where the rights simply cost too much and weren't worth an overpay. Matthew provides a much needed balance to this conversation.

[@TheMrbc74]

Regular tv is shrinking, live sports is huge, if you don’t have live sports over the next 10 years you are in big trouble

[@Amphibiousmage]

@ that’s true. But it’s not bankrupting your company for. Also, the nba is hardly the only live sport that people want to watch.

[@Aschwarz93]

Guv really thought Netherlands was Sweden? Peak American moment right there.

[@patd0]

28:20 “maybe Anthony Edwards but he’s in Minnesota” listen, I get that he’s not LeBron but LeBron was in Cleveland for 11 years. Yes, the NBA got lucky that Michael played in Chicago and Kobe played in LA… but that was an era where markets mattered more. When LeBron and OBJ were in Cleveland you would have thought the NYC subway was constantly full of tourists from Ohio. Markets don’t matter anymore re: star power when you reach the absolute top.

[@markhillis1249]

Icked me to death with: "the Netherlands is the same as Sweden"

[@bigdick1267]

You are grown ass man that just used ick...

[@ClipTale]

Belloni needs to get closer to the camera I can barely see him

[@GabaGhoul10]

Why is Matt Bologna so far away from his camera? Kyle please get the tiktok camera closer.

[@Quan1992]

If Barkley and Kenny say we want $50 million dollars each. Can TNT or ESPN say no. They are the most popular. Dor the past 20 years they release all the nba news, all nba teams, allstars everything. I hope they use their leverage. And same with Stephen A, i dont like him but he should ask for 40 million. Matt Lauer was getting 25 million 10 years ago.

[@volodymyrdovgopolov7187]

Dude, States need to give green cards for all geography teachers from Mexico

[@snarkmark2806]

Don’t hate on the Bananas.

[@brewer921]

This isn't about the NBA-TNT breakup. It's about a bunch of minutae about media corporations.

[@brotherbuboy]

Oh look at me in the comments- I know my geography

[@DB_Cooper.]

Love to see 🇺🇸's knowledge of geography. Netherlands are the same as Sweden, right?

[@scottipippen6554]

Jon Faverau is into basketball now? Really versatile fellow..

[@marquisdaily7715]

I am listening and I am not getting anything out of this conversation 😅

[@KK-pm7ud]

Bill Simmons won't talk about this, but part of the reason NBA ratings are down is wokeness. They canceled Rachel Nichols and now ESPN's flagship daily show is unwatchable with Malika Andrews. Also, people don't want to be told they are racist, when they aren't, while watching sports. The Diddy Tapes are an opportunity to grow NBA viewers and pivot to more of a mainstream democratic where people actually voted for Trump because they were tired of the gaslighting. If LeBron is implicated, it will be the chance the NBA would have to pivot back to the middle like other sports have. You see it in the NFL and the UFC. Interesting times ahead. Especially since the NBA has Inside The NBA to speak honestly to people about these woke issues.

[@Riles3152]

Yes, that is an elephant in the room topic of reason. I just think fans by and large are tired of LeBron James and everything that comes with his persona and presentation. There are certain athletes that left the game early where people wanted to see more, like Barry Sanders. There are other athletes that seem to get out of the game just in time, like Kobe Bryant , Larry Bird or John Elway. Then there are those who just seemed to stay too long to the point where fans to a majority extent lost interest in what they were seeing. LeBron, as the face of the NBA became a detriment to the overall health of the NBA. The face of your professional sports league cannot be polarizing. And that’s exactly what LeBron became.

[@abuyusufabdulhakim952]

Malika is great and there hasn’t been anything on race on NBA Today since Floyd was murdered in cold blood on camera. Stop making stuff up to support some political agenda 😊

[@ildaphonse]

No one is being told they're racist, are you delusional? Is that what you think when you see them talking about civil rights issues? Yikes. These are the same type of idiots that would justify hate crimes in the 60s.

[@slightexag]

You just want to make a non-political topic political. There are a dozen reasons why people don't watch and the league's politics/ wokeness is not one of them. The average NBA fan has no opinion whatsoever on Rachel Nichols, but knows Lebron. Like or hate Lebron, he attracts a lot money and generates massive profits for the NBA. Wokeness has so much less relevance on the actual profuct than what your dumb political argument implies. It's all in your head, not out in the real world.

[@KK-pm7ud]

@@slightexag You're incorrect. Just because you have a different opinion, it doesn't mean my perspective isn't true. Part of the reason why Inside The NBA is so popular with fans is that it isn't woke. And a big reason why there's so much push back in canceling the show is that people would be concerned that the NBA would become this woke bland ESPN version it has become many other places.

[@themoviefan9990]

David Zaslav thought the nba needed him and played hardball with them

[@ZJ-ne9kn]

Ya thats what bill said months ago

[@PRO_SPORTS_BETTING_VIDS]

^ The truth about sports betting

[@FDE4L]

I personally think it’s a weird case where the NFL product has just gotten worse and worse and the NBA product has gotten better and better but the ratings are flipped for the two.

[@Riles3152]

NBA product getting better and better is EXTREMELY subjective. The skill level may be better than ever before, but the on court product and redundant style of play has frustrated if not turned off the interest for many fans.

[@brewer921]

It's just a function of the schedule. NFL games are more rare, essentially one day a week. It's a ritual. NBA games are on every night. If they switched, the ratings would switch.

[@GabaGhoul10]

Guys get rebound -> Run down the court -> Stop and shoot 3. That is the entirety of the NBA product. You want to make the NBA interesting, take away the 3-point line again.

[@pattyweston-mg8kz]

@@Riles3152 redundant style of play? buddy either just blatantly say your bad faith or admit your 12 years old

[@pattyweston-mg8kz]

@@GabaGhoul10 never gonna happen, keep crying

[@cmac392]

Somebody has to do a 30 for 30 on the Process 76ers and the net effect over the last decade. That place is one big soap opera. Working title: The COLLAR is fine!

[@nysguy07]

If we can get Kevin Harlan, Reggie Miller and Stan Van Gundy off of NBA games I’m all in favor of Warner losing the NBA…

[@emmanuelgibson6127]

Shaq needs a new contract as well after this season.

[@stk7778]

Mark my words: ESPN will ruin the show

[@ouli4586]

blue hat guy is annoying

[@fredowithsped8034]

Americans discussing geography is the funniest shit ever

[@piaandersen3220]

For your information 😂 Northern countries : Denmark,Finland,Sweden,Norway,iceland !

[@jimgeary]

Other night at pub quiz, the Q was what country is new miss universe? And I can’t remember which but I got it down to five!

[@THE_BEAR_JEW]

I'm disappointed in these guys. Both completely forgot Italy is one of the Nordic countries.

[@mazzb305]

NBA Countdown was at its best when Bill Simmons & Jalen Rose were on. Malika Andrews is like watching paint dry 😒

[@gavincarlson3892]

Did buddy really say Poland was a Nordic country

[@iank3924]

No American stars will kill this league. No MJ. No Kobe. No Lebron. 75 percent of the country right now doesn't care

[@Rawstock92]

“If they spin off HBO, what do they have?” Money, Bill … they’d have money. Maybe HBO goes lunar, maybe they drown in a sea of legitimately fantastic content … maybe at $/mo, HBO is behind on viable volume, if ahead on prestige …

[@sirwilliam3016]

What is he hiding behind that close up?

[@timmutohfan]

the vince mcmahon doc was not good at all. it played like it was made by people who knew nothing about the subject because it was made by people who knows nothing about the subject.

[@unclebill385]

Latin America is not Brazil They speak Portuguese

[@as11osu]

You gotta fire this Belloni guy if you’re Simmons don’t you? He’s supposed to be the smart insider and he just spent 40 minutes sounding about as dumb as a human being possibly can. If he’s this ignorant on so many topics how you can trust anything he has to say?

[@Maximilian1990]

What are the topics he's ignorant about, knowing names of irrelevant countries and what else?

[@GabaGhoul10]

@@Maximilian1990Spoken like a true American.

[@Maximilian1990]

​@@GabaGhoul10still waiting to hear the part where he's ignorant on something relevant

[@as11osu]

@@Maximilian1990 He didn't even know about the countries that were in the negotiations he was talking about. Having a basic grasp of geography for someone thats supposed to know about world businesses would be a good start. He's on spotify... ... ... which is based out of one of the countries he confuses in this pod. It's also a part of the deal he was asked to speak about. Completely egregious performance. Bill should have had a conversation with someone who knew what the heck they were talking about. He also didn't know about the important latin american countries in the deal. He is such an American cliche.

[@BryanHalo123]

The dude in Dodgers cap didn't seem too stupid talking sports but the geography failure was a bad start - made me think he was super dumb.