Two guys talking sports, culture, and everything in between. Ad readouts for gambling companies . A cast of guests including current and former NBA players with stories to tell and grievances to air.

At this stage of the saturated athlete-podcaster landscape, the formula is familiar. But when Bill Simmons announced last month that The Ringer, his sports and culture media company, would launch a show hosted by superagent Rich Paul and former ESPN personality Max Kellerman, there was an unusual element of frisson. Kellerman had been uncharacteristically silent since the network let him go in 2023, while his former and similarly vocal co-host Stephen A. Smith continued holding forth on what went wrong between them. Paul, one of the defining forces in the NBA since his client Le

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