Why wait for the offseason to get into takes season? Bill Simmons certainly isn’t.
The Ringer founder and CEO (and podcaster) offered his unprompted takes on Draymond Green’s next destination on his latest episode of the Bill Simmons Podcast on Wednesday.
He prefaced it by saying it’s his “half-baked idea slash prediction for Draymond next season.”
If it’s something plus a “slash” something else, you know a vintage Simmons take is incoming. He didn’t disappoint.
“I think he ends up in Dallas with Kyrie and Luka, and then LeBron tries to figure out a way to get there eventually,” Simmons said. “Yeah, that’s my prediction.”
The logic? He gets there eventually, but not before uttering the decidedly haunting phrase “scent-y” to describe an esoteric gut feeling.
“Just feeling a Dallas scent,” Simmons said. “I think there’s there’s some Dallas stuff that just, it feels just scent-y to me. Kinda what you need [with Luka], somebody who cares about defense, doesn’t care about shooting.”
He goes on to explain how LeBron fits into all of this. He pointed to the fact that his eldest son, Bronny, has yet to pick a college, which Simmons expects will factor in to where LeBron plays next season.
If Bronny James doesn’t pick USC, everything, Simmons thinks, is open.
“If it’s somewhere outside LA, that’s going to make me think, hmm, I wonder if he maybe will — because LeBron is gonna want to ring chase at some point soon,” Simmons said. “Right? He’s not going to end at four. He knows he needs at least five.”
“And if he feels like this Lakers thing isn’t going to work, he’s gonna start ring chasing. If you’re ring chasing, you’re making a list of the best five guys in the league and you’re glomming on to one of those five. And Luka seems kind of the most ripe to be glommed onto.”‘
Gotta glom while the glomming’s good, I suppose.
Listen to the full podcast here. The Draymond-LeBron take is around the one hour mark.