An NBA Playoff Preview With Doc Rivers, Plus Nick Khan on WrestleMania 42 and the Next Big WWE Stars

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**Bill Simmons** (1:07)
The Bill Simmons Podcast brought to you by Fandul. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. Add new rewatchables that went up on Monday. We did Basic Instinct. Kindergarten Cop is coming next Monday. We also launched a brand new narrative podcast called The Gata. First two episodes are up. Please check it out. I was involved with this one. If you like Miami Vice, Scarface, The 80s, cocaine shows, this has it all. So please go check it out. I have a big podcast coming up. Doc Rivers, a dramatic return. We're going to talk a lot of hoops with him. We're going to talk about the award stuff, the season, the best player he saw in person, playoff matchups, what happened with the Bucks season, Giannis, we go into all of it. Normally, that would have been the podcast, but Nick Khan, a very important person at WWE, in boxing, bull riding, all kinds of things. Somebody I've known for a long time, he came over and we did a wide ranging talk on a whole bunch of things, so this is a massive podcast. Wanted to mention, the playoffs are starting this weekend. I do a fan duel bet a little bit later, but I really wanted to take an upset. I love taking an upset every year. Every year there is an upset, and I don't see the matchup for the upset this weekend. Minnesota and Atlanta seem to be the two live ones to jump on, and I just think Denver and the Knicks are gonna advance. The one I think is the most interesting for an underdog pick if you want to get nuts is the Lakers.
Lakers in seven is 10 to 1, Lakers in six is 22 to 1, and the Lakers to win this series is plus 530 I just feel like we're gonna get Luka back before the end of this series. Even if it's 2-1 after 3, the longer that series goes on, I think the worse I think it is for Houston. I just think the odds are a little out of whack. I don't think Houston should be minus 750 against anybody. But we're probably gonna go chalk for round one, but that's the only one I would look at. The other thing I wanted to mention, we got a word today that Cade and Luka are now eligible for first-team OMVA, or second-team OMVA, or MVP, or whatever you want, because they were peel-plush process work. So I'm just gonna give you my ballot with the adjusted Luka.
First team, Yokage, Wemby, Luka, SGA, Jalen Brown. Second team, Duran, Kawhi, Mitchell, Cade, Brunson. Third team, Chet, KD, Jalen Johnson, Murray, Maxie is what I'm going with for OMVA. I have Luka as number four MVP, Jalen five, Wemby three. And I have not handed in my ballot yet. And I know I said on Tuesday, I was voting SGA for MVP. And we cut a social clip out of it. And I am just agonizingly talking about how I don't understand why I'm not voting for Yokage when he had one of the greatest offensive seasons I've ever seen in the greatest of his career. And yet also laid out the case why I think the vote has to be SGA.
Blame the NBA, not me, because I should have already sent my ballot in. This appeal process dragged it out.
I have not sent in my ballot yet. I don't know when the deadline is.
I still don't know who I'm voting for for MVP. I've changed my mind. I've had a conscious uncoupling with my original SGA thing. I just over and over again keep thinking, what in 10 years, what am I going to think? Am I going to regret doing this? Because there's been a couple MVP picks I've regretted over the years. I'm just not ready to make a pick yet.