NBA Panic Rankings, NFL Draft Guesses, and a Michael Jackson Movie Review | With Todd McShay, Steve Muench, and Van Lathan
4/22/20262 hr 7 min
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons catches up on Tuesday's NBA playoff matchups before taking a look at the panic teams (3:00). Then, Todd McShay and Steve Muench join Bill to preview the NFL draft (25:05). Finally, Van Lathan joins to give his thoughts on the new Michael Jackson biopic, ‘Michael’ (01:36:27). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Todd McShay, Steve Muench, and Van Lathan Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Shop your favorite local grocers on Uber Eats! https://www.ubereats.com/brand/kroger 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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First 90 secondsBill Simmons· Host0:00
[drum music] The Bill Simmons Podcast brought to you by FanDuel. We're also brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network. I put up a new Rewatchables on Monday. We did Kindergarten Cop. It is available on Netflix as well. Next week, Ghostbusters, which you can also watch on Netflix. That's coming with me, and Van Lathan, and Chris Ryan. We have some Ringer stuff for you. Sean Fennessey, you might have heard from him, host of The Big Picture. I've worked with him since 2012. He put up a new newsletter today that you can subscribe to about movies. Did it with, uh, The Ringer, and Substack, and Spotify. Uh, it's called Projections. He'll be writing about movies at least once a week. If you like Sean, I'm pretty confident you're gonna like the newsletter. Uh, he's gonna be on here Thursday to discuss it. Jordan Kahn, who's been with us since Grantland, came to us, uh, along when we started The Ringer. Uh, one of the best long-form writers in the country. He has a new book that came out today called American Men. It's excellent. If you like reading books, I would recommend it. And then, uh, Legata, the third episode of that podcast, which I told you, if you like Scarface, and Miami Vice, and '80s cocaine, all that stuff, this is the podcast for you. Uh, Legata, third episode is up now. On this podcast, I'm gonna be reacting to all the basketball tonight, um, plus the basketball yesterday, uh, at the very top of this. And then I have Todd McShay and Steve Mench. We, we taped earlier today, whole bunch of NFL