NBA Draft Questions, Harper vs. Fox, and the USMNT’s World Cup Ceiling

**Bill Simmons** (0:00)
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All right, so we're recording. It is Thursday afternoon, late Pacific time. Tim Legler is here. He did not join us during the finals, because he was calling the finals, and we were coming live after every finals game.
I wanna do some draft NBA stuff, and then at the end of this, I wanna talk about what it was like to be there for such a crazy series. I was so excited today.
I read that you're involved with the NBA draft this year for ESPN. I had this whole plan for stuff to talk about. I didn't know we were gonna be able to, I didn't know you were prepped for the draft. This is unbelievable.

**Tim Legler** (3:45)
Well, listen, to be full disclosure, I'm not fully. I still have a few days to get there because this was kind of also a late in the game ad for me. To be part of it. I mean, it gets fun. It's exciting. But at the same time, yeah, like there's a lot to acclimate yourself with.
And I've been doing nothing, honestly, over the last couple of days, but watching a lot of film on a lot of guys. Just, I saw my new, seen enough of, kind of had a feel, but even those guys, to really get into the weeds, you need to see more film on guys. And then there was a bunch of other dudes when you start getting down anywhere from 10 through 30, because I'm just doing the first night, so I'll be involved with the first round. So you got a lot of catch up to do, so I'm kind of in the midst of doing that, more or less.

**Bill Simmons** (4:28)