this is the kind of content the Ringer can and should do, not only for football but for all sports, music, cinema, pop culture, etc

@TheRingerNBA

Ай бұрын

We've got 9 more episodes coming, some are sports-related, and some are music/movies/pop culture-related. Thanks for watching!

@untexan

Ай бұрын

It's awesome and absolutely ripe for self-parody later

@edmondhonda2763

Ай бұрын

Secret Base

@swannie35

Ай бұрын

That’s why they did it.

@TrggrWarning

23 күн бұрын

@@TheRingerNBAtY for recognizing Jokic… The guy deserves more.

Give me Bill in front of a camera taking about great moments in sports ALL DAY.

It’s feeling like 2019 again

@whitechocalte532

Ай бұрын

Only took 3 years to bounce back from Covid

@danielroth3714

Ай бұрын

I don’t get it

@LLDRv

Ай бұрын

​@@danielroth3714 the content that this channel produced during 2019 was so good and similar to this.

@dabigjtizzle

Ай бұрын

Make the ringer great again

@zachhayes432

23 күн бұрын

my thoughts exactly. zoom era was not the best time for the ringer

Kyle turn the KZread camera on!!

@Mackmicheals

27 күн бұрын

I mean Ben!

wow, that's a genuinely amazing photo of Bill at 9:04. if that were me i'd have that framed lol

@tylerchatham7093

Ай бұрын

Yeah, that pic is cold

@Only_One_Veezy

Ай бұрын

I had the EXACT thought bro 💯🔥

@Vic-Vega

21 күн бұрын

I'm sure there is a blown-up version hanging in his bedroom right above the bed Bill pretends to sleep with his wife in. 😅

8:33…this is precisely why I say Sasha Vujacic never gets enough credit. Comes off the bench ice cold, Game 7 of the Finals, 81-79…stuffs both FTs to seal the title for the Lakers. One of the most unsung clutch moments ever.

@YaBoyMacD

Ай бұрын

bro yes

KZread is having a moment House!

@domclegg1225

Ай бұрын

it just is!

@Nate-im3sg

4 күн бұрын

i remember thinking

Nobody from ESPN showed this much love for the NBA like Bill Simmons

Dude I'm so excited for these

@Vic-Vega

21 күн бұрын

Too bad the rest suck. 🤷😆

Absolutely unforgettable game and Bill nailed the atmosphere in the arena that night. As a lifelong Miami Heat season ticket holder, that game is hands down the best I've ever witnessed. Sitting just 25 rows up from where Ray Allen hit that miracle shot, the tension was palpable. When Kawhi Leonard was at the line for those free throws, my dad was ready to call it quits and head out. But I insisted, 'No way we're leaving now.' It felt like a nightmare unfolding before us-our championship hopes hanging by a thread. That shot, though? Pure magic. It's not just a great moment in NBA history; it's THE greatest shot ever made, and I'm forever grateful to have been a part of that electrifying night.

@BB-wg3tw

15 күн бұрын

Absolutely! In the arena before the first 3, there was a palpable sense that the game was indeed over. The ropes around the court that Bill mentions a few times laid out what everyone was thinking. I was amazed how many folks headed for the exits. And then somehow the magic happened!

This moment is still so tough for me to watch as a spurs fan… just almost made me not be able to watch basketball again for a while… but it’s also what made the 2014 win so emotional

@justinyb90

Ай бұрын

this is your SB50 for seahawks fans lol

@briandavey1139

Ай бұрын

Yup. What a numb feeling.

@cdman882

Ай бұрын

Why? Of course it’s a coaching mistake. Everyone makes them. But there’s no guarantee Duncan gets the rebound. I believe Duncan was out there when Miami had their first miss-make three 20 seconds earlier. Not to mention without this the 2014 title likely doesn’t exist. Best bounce back ever. Pop had them locked in. They eviscerated the Heat and ended the Heatles.

@Sethsters

Ай бұрын

I was on my honeymoon in Jamaica when this happened. My wife went to sleep but told me to wake her up if the Spurs won. I woke her up with like a minute left. “We’re gonna win!” I said giddily. But it has a happy ending, because on June 15, 2014 my wife and I celebrated our one year anniversary in NYC. That evening we watched the Spurs beat the Heat in game 5 to clinch the title.

@yohanjohn100

Ай бұрын

@@Sethsters man… that sounds like such a nice core memory for you guys 👏

I CAN'T BEGIN TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LIKED THIS! Listen, I was a massive fan of Grantland and feel similarly about The Ringer. But the one thing that is missing in each site was/is missing is - this - the ability to send comments along. I feel like someone at The Ringer (perhaps yourself) will read this. With The Ringer, there is no community dialogue going on (Bill, I am certain you are aware of this as you are the most savvy of the content providers and weighed pros and cons). Anyway, toward the piece itself, the ability to distill what happened in a single moment in a sport and explain what it meant then, and going forward, is the type of content real fans care about!

@thaat1

Ай бұрын

Those comment sections were poorly moderated, and devolved into a cesspool for politics and racist tirades... I for one don't miss it.

@Freakmeal

Ай бұрын

@@thaat1 I never got involved, but felt those folks were at least accessible. That was my only point. Like you, I hate when people try to make a point that has exactly nothing to do with the spirit of how content is offered.

The KZread camera piece!

Please god please make more content like this. This is similar to what people started reading, watching and listening to Grantland/The Ringer for.

Finally, Bill decides to make videos!

Bill Simmons is hands down the best NBA analyst / historian.. glad he is off ESPN now too . he can speak his mind

4 minutes in and this is FANTASTIC. Will be the biggest basketball channel on the site if this continues! Classic Bill

I love all Ringer content. This is awesome. I love the picture of Bill squatting down in the stands watching the play.

Watching Ray hit that shot was such a gut punch that it STILL hurts in the year 2024. Thanks, Bill for making me relive the pain!!! 😭Seriously though, love the content! Hope to see more like this!

Love this format - more please

Love this content

It was a confluence of events that will probably never be replicated and if you played it out in a simulation it would happen 1 in a million. 1. Manu goes 1/2 from the line: 2. LeBron misses 3. Despite having 4 Spurs all in the area and at least 2 of them with their hands on the ball, Miami taps it out to LeBron who hits second attempt. 3. Kawhi goes 1/2 from the line. 4. LeBron misses again. Bosh fights through traffic to secure the board, tosses it out to Ray for the corner 3 to tie. Two missed free throws and two offensive rebounds. If the Spurs get any one of those things to fall in their favor they win. Instead they went 0/4. Brutal to watch in real time and just as brutal to relive a decade later.

I can't express how much I enjoy this style of content

PLEASE KEEP MAKING THIS KIND OF CONTENT

Listening to Bill talk about the NBA is actually more entertaining than the NBA. And that's how I consume the NBA nowadays. Highest compliments to Bill.

More of this please. Some of the best sports content I’ve seen.

this is great. Bill's an amazing storyteller. thanks!

This is what I wanted to see on the winner just great history of both basketball and football. If you have regular episodes like this, it will kill it.

Love this. Please make many more.

Love these new commentaries!

We need more of these Bill please

THIS IS THE CONTENT WE NEED!

Good job by you Bill!!

Agreed, greatest shot of all time 🐐and it’s not close!

I second this, we need more of this kind of content!

Amazing content

We love Bill Simmons ❤

Damn you, Bill for making me relive this.

This is great content

We need more of these

I could watch this kind of content all day long

Love this! Giving the vintage / greatest peaks series vibes

We need more of this content

I’m here for video essays! Well done

more, more, more of this kind of stuff, the longer the better

bill Simmons is such a great story teller

Love this content.

This was fantastic!

More of these please!!!

This is content FOR THE PEOPLE! More of this, please.

Please do more of this Bill

That shot was awesome

I was in Miami for that game and remember watching him score that 3 pointer at some random sports bar. Everyone went WILD. It was amazing!

The slow motion of ray 's shot is poetry in motion

Me and My dad watched live, one of those moments you dont forget

Really cool content by Bill

Great video

Hey Bill, great content.

Spurs fan. Watched this live. One of the most vivid memories I have.

This is great 👍🏽

Love this

These are great! You should do the Pedro all star game performance with russillo

“Ray Allen practiced this shot thousands of times” -and has the calf muscles to prove it.

He was tippie-toeing!

This is awesome! Can’t wait for the Russillo one of these !

More of this please

Damn cool idea. As. a video producer this must be fun to work on.

more of this pls :D

As a Spurs fan... god damn it. But man, 2014, when they came back and swore vengeance -- that was sweet.

GREAT CONTENT!!! More more more more (to quote travis kelce)

Cool idea for a series!

Finally some real content

This feels like grantland again love it more please!

Push this stuff more 💯💯💯💯

More of this content!

My two favorite Finals series of my lifetime: 2011, 2013, 2016.

Kyle has upgraded the Tik Tok camera!!!

Game 6 Duncan was him turning into 1985 Kareem. He was gonna be FMVP. 5-5

This was the one bill! Now please do redraftables 2.0 and book of basketball video content 🙏

When Ray Allen saved LeBron's legacy.

I was watching and I was crushed because my cousin is the biggest Spurs fan and I wanted the Heat to win. I remember texting him "GAME 7 get ready". He texted back that he wasn't watching because he knew the Heat was going to win that game 7.

FINALLY. Pre-Covid Ringer vibes 🐐

As a lifelong spurs fan, I've always said Ray's shot was retribution for Bruce Bowens defense from 05 playoffs.

Great torture device Bill! (Spurs fan here)

This rules

Bring back the NBA season preview!!!

The music volume levels are too low. I feel it should ramp up at certain points but instead it just stays flat. Love this kind of content tho!

"There was a moment when..."

Need one of these on Game 6 Klay Thompson in OKC 2016 WCF & the Dame Lillard Buzzer Beater vs OKC

Greatest shot of all time

Bill with his arms crossed in front of Andre the Giant with his arms crossed is beautiful.

Need one of these covering the moment everything changed on The Big Pic. CR’s watershed moment. A true black swan event. It’s one of the best things to happen at The Ringer; it just is.

One of the most underrated teams of all time is this SA team.

@Vic-Vega

21 күн бұрын

How?? They won the title the very next year. 😅

Greatest shot ever.

I wish you could re edit this so that from one angle, Bill's arms are crossed like Andre and in the other angle, his fists are up like Rocky

I remember taping this game so that I could watch it after getting off work. I didn't know what happened until I got home to watch it. I was rooting like crazy for the Spurs to win because I didn't (and still don't) like LeBron or that Heat super team. Seeing the Spurs come SO close to winning the title, after CLEARLY proving to be the better team up until that last few seconds, until Ray hit that 3 to tie it, was devastating 😂. I remember telling myself after they lost and it really hit me, "I can't believe they just lost that game!!" One of the wildest NBA finals games I've ever seen, and the only team that came anywhere near as close to winning the title without actually winning it, was the 88 Pistons, In the famous sprained ankle Isiah Thomas game. Just like the Pistons, the Spurs wound up winning the title the next year, against the same team they SHOULD have beaten the year before.

It’s just so classic Bill to still somehow give credit to the Celtics. I would expect nothing less.

Finally

I was 11 and turned the tv off crying cause i thought they lost. Heard screaming from the other room couple mins later 😭

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