LeBron’s Philly Shocker! Plus, the 2011 NBA Redraftables With Zach Lowe.

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All right. It is Friday morning. This is The Bill Simmons Podcast. I have no Sunday podcast. This was supposed to be the Sunday podcast. Zach Lowe was coming here. We're going to do a 2011 redraft, and 20 minutes before we were about to start recording, we got the word that LeBron James is going to the Philadelphia 76ers. We're going to talk about that in one second. Live rewatchable is coming Monday, four o'clock Pacific time. We are doing Obsession. So stay tuned for that. Okay. LeBron to Philly. So first, I'm going to start eating some Crow. I thought Cleveland was done. I thought this was where this was headed the whole time. I'm not sure what happened there. We could talk about that later.
Philly shocked me. This got a genuine woe. It wasn't a Lucatrade woe, but this was a woe. I didn't think this was in play. I didn't think he'd want to live there. I guess he's going to live in New York.
Where was this on a one out of 10 woe scale for you?

**Zach Lowe** (3:10)
7.5. The moment Bob Myers went on game over, I had someone in the league, I said some iPod just say to me, someone smart, not even reading T-Leaves, which is saying, why would he go on that show and potentially debase himself like that if he didn't know something? Since then, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything because all these teams were just telling you the last two weeks, we don't know, we're in the dark, we're completely in the dark.
7.5. It's not a 10, it's not a nine, but it's pretty high. I'm like you, I just always thought momentum would push him towards a familiar destination, whether it was Cleveland, Miami, or his friends in Golden State. And this is fun, man.
I actually really like this for a whole multitude of reasons. I think this is a really fun, I think this might be other than Minnesota, which was a pipe dream, and Denver, which was like a triple pipe dream. This is a really fun outcome.

**Bill Simmons** (4:07)
So you're gonna do the deep dive on Sunday. We are doing the irrational holy shit reactions to this.
Big picture, this is maybe, maybe not Joel Embiid. We have no idea how many games he's gonna play. You have a franchise guy in Maxi, who's also a clutch guy. You have VJ Edgecombe, year two. You have Jalen Brown just being thrown into all of this. And then LeBron, I guess, as the power forward. It's a basketball team that makes sense. From a usage rate standpoint, does not make sense. But this is a team that if everybody's healthy and playing together, this would be kind of a nightmare to guard. And especially if they're playing with pace, like they did with Edgecombe and Maxi in a couple of those playoff games. And then you throw LeBron into that.
I'm just surprised that this man almost makes me wonder if he's going to play until he's 45 now, which he's hinted at a couple of times. Like we thought like, oh, these, this would be the last year or the last two years. He said some things over the summer that like, why should I have to retire if I don't have to, right? Tom Brady played till he's 45 And I wonder, like, because the Cleveland thing, which we could talk about later, they just couldn't figure out how to make that work. I wonder, maybe, maybe that's where this ends anyway. Maybe he thinks two years, title chase, and then I'll end up in Cleveland for at the end.