Derek Thompson(@DKThomp):I went on the BS Podcast to talk about - why billionaire sports ownership is a moral scandal - the connection between the Lakers, Mark Walter, insurance float, private equity, and AI - the “derivatives market” theory of modern media (the decline of reporting and how “nobody wants to talk about The Thing, everybody wants to talk about people talking about The Thing”) - how the 2016 salary cap spike shaped modern sports commentary and the Bravo sports fan by making pre-agency rumors evergreen

2026.08.21 17:55

I went on the BS Podcast to talk about - why billionaire sports ownership is a moral scandal - the connection between the Lakers, Mark Walter, insurance float, private equity, and AI - the “derivatives market” theory of modern media (the decline of reporting and how “nobody wants to talk about The Thing, everybody wants to talk about people talking about The Thing”) - how the 2016 salary cap spike shaped modern sports commentary and the Bravo sports fan by making pre-agency rumors evergreen

Bill Simmons@BillSimmons

2026.08.21 02:14

New BS Podcast w/ @DKThomp — the Sports Plutocracy, Mark Walter’s tricks, Vegas’s 9b NBA team, Denver screws Jokic, biggest 2020s Legacy rings, the NBA’s 2016 Black Swan event, and the WNBA’s avoidable growing pains. Spotify ⬇️