NBA Day One Reactions, Plus Blake Griffin and Peter Berg (Two Interviews!)
Oct 21, 2026 · 3h 8m · take 26 of 26
- Bill Simmons probably doesn't make big multi-hour sports documentaries again.
“because I'm not doing sports documentaries anymore”
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In context
BillIt was good. It was a good time. HBO had this recently, this 40 minute documentary about when Dennis Miller
Billwas on Monday Night Football for two years. Yeah, I forgot about that. It's like a 45 -minute documentary.
BillThey interviewed like seven people in it. It just has a beginning, middle, and end. And it really felt like a 30 for 30. And I was like,
Billbecause I'm not doing sports documentaries anymore. I think I've run my course with them.
BillBut I would be interested again if it was more in those kind of things where you're just telling a start to finish story versus like, it's got to be four hours. We have to have all these different people in it. I just, and the people who you're interviewing have to be EPs.
BillI just can't do it anymore.
BillI look back at the late 2000s and it's like, man, we really had it good back then.
From the episode transcript around 02:12:44. Speaker names are recognized by voice.
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