The Giannis Never-Trade and a Mega-Mailbag With Zach Lowe, Plus Wyndham Clark’s Second U.S. Open Title With Joe House

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Bill Simmons Podcast, we are live on Netflix. We had Zach Lowe and something happened and he just disappeared, like two minutes before we went live, but that's fine. I can carry the very top here because I want to tell you we have a new rewatchables. We have two coming this week. We have From Hell Month still going really strong. We have Domestic Disturbance coming on Monday, and then The Good Son is gonna be Thursday. And then the next Monday, we're gonna be doing Pacific Heights. So three more From Hell movies, and then we'll get into a more regular schedule after that. Check out all of our Ringer basketball podcasts, by the way, because we have the draft on Tuesday night. I'm going live on Netflix. Hopefully Zach's laptop will be working, or computer and camera will be working. At some point, he will have a show, I think on Monday. We're gonna have, on my show on Tuesday on Netflix, it's gonna be Joe House, because his team has the number on pick, and that's the rule of house has the number on pick. We're good. And then Jay Kyle Mann will be joining us as well. And now Zach Lowe. I think, is this working, Zach? How are we feeling?

**Zach Lowe** (2:50)
Are we live? Am I back? We're live.

**Bill Simmons** (2:52)
I just did my intro. Let's go.

**Zach Lowe** (2:54)
Oh my God. Okay, my computer just died. It came back to life. I don't know what happened. I don't know what's gonna happen, but I just, I popped into Netflix just like that. I'm live. Okay.

**Bill Simmons** (3:02)
You did.
I thought the Bucks or the Miami Heat or Miami Heat media members might have sabotaged your feed. So we couldn't talk about the trade. We have the Giannis trade hostage crisis, what day 305, day 307? I don't know how long this has been going. We were kind of hoping it would happen this weekend.
I think it's gonna happen tomorrow, sadly. Not good for our podcast. Maybe not good for you with whatever week you had pointed out, but I think it's gonna happen tomorrow. And I just am discounting 95% of everything I'm reading. So at the very top of this podcast, we're gonna talk Giannis Quick. We'll talk our just knowing enough about the draft to be dangerous takes. And then I have a mega mailbag that I'm gonna bring you into. And then at the tail end, Joe House is gonna tell us what happened in the US Open. So the Giannis trailer, are you surprised it has not happened yet? Are you tired of talking about it? Where are you?

**Zach Lowe** (3:56)
I'm not surprised it hasn't happened yet. I totally understand both why Milwaukee wants to take this as far as possible and why other teams are perhaps a little frustrated with Milwaukee's communication style. I understand all of it. I understand every party involved. I kind of thought it would be done by now. They clearly want to do it before the draft. Our owner, Jimmy Haslam, came out and said we'd like to do it before the draft if he's not gonna extend.
I thought it would happen before now. I still would lean to it happening before the draft like you.
I'm not frustrated, Bill.
It's just gotta roll off your back. There's nothing you can do. Am I going to a World Cup game on Tuesday? Am I tentatively throwing out the first pitch at Citi Field tomorrow? Weather permitting? Weather permitting? All those things are happening. It's just nothing I can do. I can't control these variables. I just gotta roll with it. Just gotta roll with it. Peace, peace, serenity now. Serenity now, it's all I can do.