A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With Hollywood

**Bill Simmons** (0:00)
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Bill Simmons Podcast live on Netflix here on Sunday. We have Zach Lowe right now. He's in a great mood. We have Taylor Sheridan, creator of Yellowstone and a bunch of awesome shows coming in the second half of the pod. Zach is coming off an incredible victorious day in Philadelphia where he celebrated a World Cup win with a bunch of tall Croatians. Very tall. I was worried you were gonna get crushed in a group hug at some bar last night, but you made it, you're here.

**Zach Lowe** (2:38)
I made it home. I may have gotten crushed. There may have been a lot of group hugs.
Croatians know how to party. And we move on to the round of 32 We're gonna be underdogs. But that's fine. Like, look, I'm glad if this is it. I got to see Luka Modrić summon one last great game start to finish. And that was amazing.

**Bill Simmons** (2:59)
And you're 2-0 in the World Cup this year in person.

**Zach Lowe** (3:02)
Yeah, that's been pointed out to be by multiple people associated with the Croatian football team that I like.

**Bill Simmons** (3:07)
You're going to have to go to every game now.

**Zach Lowe** (3:08)
I might need to go to Toronto. It's being pushed on me that I might need to go. And I'm just putting it out there. Mets play Blue Jays the day before in Toronto. I could do a double. Just skip NBA free agency altogether and just go to be a sports fan.

**Bill Simmons** (3:22)
We're going to try to rip through NBA stuff in 75 minutes, which includes Jaylen Brown. I have not given any take yet on the LaMelo trade to Minnesota. You did a whole podcast about it. We're going to talk Charlotte Phoenix a little bit. We're going to talk about what happened to LeBron. We're going to talk about craziest prediction for the week. You have podcasts coming at least tomorrow and probably Wednesday, maybe two, maybe three. I'm going to have at least one more on Thursday. So that is the schedule. Jaylen Brown, not traded yet.
Information and misinformation flying around.
I don't know if he has lost trade value because teams know they want to trade him or because of his contract or whatever. I thought it would be resolved a little bit quicker. He was in France, a little pissy about some advanced metrics tweets. Got mad at Bobby Marks for passing along something he heard from a front office. He's been doing panels. The word on the street on Jaylen in France, and I know multiple people who were either in his vicinity or whatever is that he was acting like he's done in Boston and that this is it. And I don't think he's very happy with this. Do you think Boston mishandled this in any way?

**Zach Lowe** (4:35)
First of all, you have sources on the ground across France. Like at whatever region. The Bordeaux region. Oh, it was Cannes. Okay, so you have sources on the ground.

**Bill Simmons** (4:44)
He was on sports panels there. I don't think he's really too happy about the last couple weeks.

**Zach Lowe** (4:49)
What would the mishandling have been? Tell me what the mishandling would, because they won a, let's not, let's lead with the thing. They won the championship with Jaylen Brown and Jason Data.