Bill Simmons’s “I Hate to Tell You” NBA Truths | The Bill Simmons Podcast 

"I respect his lack of embarrassment." Gold.

"I thought it was going to be bad for my son because Ben Simmons was going to be a famous basketball player, no longer have those concerns" that killed me lol

Bill you’re dropping bangers today

I'm always game for a Ben Simmons roast.

Bill Simmons is having a moment

Love the hate to tell you segment where everyone’s like “I got to tell you” 😅

Simmons: "It's like when my dad just says whatever..." Simmons: (Unironically making a late-stage career out of exactly that.)

bill im glad you releasing more content I love your perspective on the game great job

bill simmons roasting Flamengo is really what i needed for my week to get better

Bench Simmons showing up with a clock is wild. Dude literally just collecting a paycheck and running out the time on his career.

Thank God for more House. Love this trio.

Ernie said Shaq, Kenny and Chuck don't go to the meetings. And I've seen them show up late for the broadcast blaming it on traffic or zebras, which is further proof they're not arriving earlier for meetings.

Australia doesn't want Ben Simmons on the national team. He's the antithesis of what the team needs.

I very much appreciate the honesty

Great show guys 👏🏿 💯

Barkley said he had an out-clause if they lost the NBA.

This needs to a full pod. Maybe once a quarter

has Woz ever gone a whole pod without talking about Ben Simmons?

I hate to tell you, but the name of the game is not I GOT TO TELL YOU 😂 Great content as always

Love these three together!

i love House😂

Going back to your season preview, House loved the Pacers. Pacers Knicks has lived up to the hype through 3 games.

The F Trae Young part was hilarious

I'm stealing the "I gotta tell ya" bit 😂

bill's ben simmons zag is epic .

Bill’s on a heater

I hate to tell you but I don’t think half of these were actually using the gimmick correctly

I wished Ben Simmons could be forced to play in the G-league or sued

could use a full hour of this 😂

Bill sends up a prayer every night that Jimmy Butler gets traded

Bill, you are welcome to come to Brasil and watch a Flamengo game and experience an amazing crowd that cheers like we are in a soccer game.

7:15 One good landing spot for Jimmy is Milwaukee, the team he tormented so much. Bucks have Dame, Khris and a bunch of other matching salaries to choose from.

Ben Simmons is Australian!!

The Ben Simmons one is real. You can show up looking like that at the met gala but can't show up for your teammates on the court dressed as a basketball player. "Make it make sense"

Good job Bill

If anyone’s been listening to LeBatard for decades Hochman and Stugotz had this bit way back when, but it was called “I Gotta Tell Ya”

If the nba ever gets rid of guaranteed contracts, the name Ben simmons will definately be involved in the rule

Hey Bill good call on the nuggets getting swept and the Mavs being finished and scoot Henderson being "far and away the second best player in this draft" and your Evan mobley stock and all your horrible calls since the last time you got anything right, Luka. Which was a tough one considering he was a Euro league MVP at 18. Do you actually watch basketball anymore?!? Kendrick Perkins is sounds like a genius around you lately

damn,this was a fun show

Ben Simmons will go down as a cautionary tale, a boogeyman, to billionaire owners of pro sports teams. He successfully grifted hundreds of millions of dollar from these tax evading 1%ers. It's all legal, so they can't touch him. I see Ben collecting the last of his big money, signing for minimum 3 to 4 season contract and playing his usual minimum, and then retiring at very young age when it's done.

Butler and Durant need to play together in Phoenix. But Butler back to Philly makes a lot of sense too.

Bill might as well pivot the segment to "i gotta tell you" because not only do they keep messing it up, they also change the concept of the bit by keep saying i gotta tell you

Ernie has already said he won't leave TNT, and he's older, I'm not sure he wouldn't rather retire at this point then start at a new company with new people, so I kind of think House is right. Also right about Zaslav, but he already is a public enemy with so many of his idiot decisions, he doesn't care. Similar to what Wose said, he's just hanging on cutting costs, setting up few things (like DC, reality show shit on MAX), before WB eventually gets bought by Amazon before 2030 and he gets a parachute of hundreds of millions.

Was it Bill who said "Jimmy Butler isn't so much a clutch playoff performer, as much as he's really a lazy reg season player". Which is 100% true. Ironically, he plays at 80% effort more games than Harden & we all torment Harden for it.

Franz is so much younger, Miami would need to add a pick or two to make it work

Bills content is always mf 🔥 🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒

I I hate to tell you though the NBA isn't rigged it's certainly biased towards big teams in big markets in big games for long series there's no back alley deals but the executives keep this regime of refs in power because those back alley conversations don't need to be had they understand hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake Between a 7 game series with the Knicks Rather than the pacers advancing. The lakers have 250 free throw differential and the knicks are number 2 and I'm sure it's just a coincidence those are the 2 biggest markets historically

Who would trade for Jimmy though? Funny thing Sixers seems like the only right fit

Butler to spurs w pop would be great

I hate to tell ya, but 360p doesn't cut it Bill!

Except for injuries & "injuries". The biggest problem in the entire league (except new young teams like OKC) is: The big superstars that are past their 30s and prime and still have 50 mill contracts. Completely sabotaging any potential a team has. Shoutout: Suns, Heat, Bucks, Lakers.

In the long run, WB will probably be better off without the NBA. Regarding the pre game show, Ernie has said he wants to stay at TBS even if they lose the NBA. And chuck has said he can’t see himself doing the show without Ernie. So, it may be the end of that group.

Member that time when Butler was too good for Minnesota? I member.

There are about 9 different trades that the Miami Heat could make with Jimmy Butler in the trade. Jimmy Butler to Chicago Bulls for Zach Lavine to Miami Heat Jimmy to Milwaukee Bucks for Damian Lillard to Heat Jimmy to Washington Wizards for Jordan Poole & Kyle Kuzma, 2024 2nd round draft pick to Heat Jimmy Butler & Tyler Hero to Golden State for Andrew Wiggins, 2024 2nd round draft pick (sign and trade Klay Thompson) to Heat Jimmy to Houston Rockets for Dillon Brooks, Jeff Green & Jabari Smith to Heat Jimmy to Los Angeles Clippers (sign and trade Paul George) to Heat Jimmy to New Orleans Pelicans for Zion Williamson & Larry Nance Jr to Heat Jimmy to Phoenix Suns for Devin Booker to Heat Jimmy to Sacramento Kings for Harrison Barnes, Kevin Huerter & Trey Lyes to Heat

I thought bill died a couple years ago and this showed up in my feed. I’m glad he’s not dead but I’m uninterested.

Only reason shaq said something to joker about sga is because they were debating right before joker came on so it only made sense for him to say it to his face

Fun Fact: By forcing his way to NY instead of staying in Philly, Simmons cost himself $12m in taxes

Butler for Tobias 😂 and Ben Simmions > Ben 10 Simmons

Big Wos! I love the Ben Simmons commentary

We need Inside the NBA with Roundball Rock and NBC will earn the A package in no time.

He looked solid 🤷🏾‍♂️

Shit is fire

I'm sure Reggie didn't take it too personal. I've been to Knicks game in MSG and they generally are also cursing at their own team.

Reminder that Wosny Lambre doesn’t watch ball and spoke last time for 10 minutes as he faked stats to hate on Sabonis all while he mixed up Cam Thomas and Cam Johnson without catching himself. Bum.

I dont think ANYONE hates to tell Ben Simmons the truth. Wos didnt understand the assignment

I think having dame giannis kahris malik and lopez with portis pat is still a good core for a postseason run out east...

Hey House, Us aussies don't ever want to see him in a Aussie uniform ever again, you can keep him lol

I’m surprised they don’t understand F U is an expression of love in NY. We just have strange bedfellows.

Damn.... Lakers send Rui, Dlo, Christie, 2 unprotected 1st Rd picks for Dame.

Wos is the man

Surprised this isn’t the I hate to tell you draft

1:27 while a guy like me who’s college career high is 5pts can out shoot him. Lol

House is phyllip seymour hoffman

Wait...so we're dragging an athlete in his 20's who makes guaranteed millions because he has no self-awareness. Yeah, OK. Ben Simmons is the way he is because someone decided long ago that giving NBA players guaranteed money was a good idea. It's not, and hasn't been for years. We're seeing the consequences.

Here’s what I think is really bad for Ben Simmons. If he were 6’2’ or even 6’5”- he could just be a rich entrepreneur, but the man is 6ft 10in tall!! He is an unmistakeable NBA athlete. Everywhere he goes, it’s going to be oh yeah- you’re the guy who collected 100 million without playing for two years!!

Jimmy back to Philly

Well at least when Ben Simmons hits that fade away it'll be the one shot he makes

Ben Simmons out "Andrew Bynumed" Andrew Bynum.

Did you guys really edit out Wos’s cat? wtf!

Bill is very busy today.

Butler 100% is getting traded in 2025 and not getting extended

i hate to tell you bill (and ethan) but the wnba teams aren’t changing their names to match nba teams

are your webcams from 2009, what is this quality lmfao

Ben Simmons hung out with Kevin Brennan (funnier brother of the co-creator of the Chappelle Show) at a liquor store at the start of last year's playoffs. The Met Gala is extremely lame. I would rather party at Fire Island with Vito Spatafore and Johnny Cakes.

Mia trading Butler away to recive PG13 doesn't make Mia better 😂 you have to find a way to keep Butler and George together for that to make any sense.

Simple, Dame for Butler 😂

I think Ben Simmons is trash but I also hate how much other people discuss other peoples salaries I bet Bill simmons will never let you know how much he makes and sit discuss his funds. I never knew what players made growing.

Butler would never go back to Philly. “Tobias over Me”. These guys have Big Egos. He would never go back to Philly, period.

So, the Nuggets just tied up the series with the Wolves. Let me throw a hypothetical out there. Everyone is comparing Edwards to Jordan but what if it's Jokic and the Nuggets who follow the 90s Bulls' path and the Wolves play the part of the Knicks? First round last year. This year second round while giving them way more than anyone expected. Nuggets stumble around a bit but ultimately win it again. Next year, they meet in the WCF and the whole season has been building to this. The Wolves are primed and ready and even look like they are actually going to do it but Jokic goes to yet another crazy gear and the Nuggets take them down again and then 3-peat. Jokic retires because he's bored and tired of all the hate. He's gone for a couple of years but then realizes that he wants to run the biggest horse ranch in Eurasia and notices that Naz Reid signed for $40 million per year. So, he comes back, the Nuggets have signed a focused and rejuvenated Marcus Smart along with a replenished bench, Jokic discovers a new genuine joy in the game and goes for another 3 chips.

More Wos!

He dressed up as a clock.

Don’t tell me Trae Young is actually not good. I couldn’t take that 😅

Simmons is done, or someone picks him up on a vet min. Even a vet min is too much since EVERYONE knows Ben wants to be a celebrity and not a baller.

Jimmy to the Rockets! 🚀

If ben simmons had a shot we wouldn't even care but he doesn't still

Hey Bill put some respect on Flamengo’s name!

Inside the NBA is not the best but it is the most succesful. Its fun but if I want quality NBA content I go to either: Bill, JJ, Jxmy, or FTF. Inside was cool, but this year they got almost everything wrong, and it doesnt seem they wanna be there anymore.

Y’all compare going to the met gala to plsying hurt? This shit did nothing to hurt Ben Simmons at all

They not trading jimmy and definitely not for George

Bill is right Ben Simmons won