Great stuff. Simmons + Russillo is the Jordan/Pippen of podcasting

A masterpiece. I love every episode. A fitting sequel to “The Book of Basketball.” It got me through the pandemic, as I walked my dog for eight hours a day.

Jackie delivered something special with ICONS pods. Every one built on the previous to create a unique understanding of athletic stardom. Kudos ad infinitum.

The Ringer is my single stop for all my favorite content and this series is wonderful! My only complaints are that there is no video to go along with it and that there aren’t more of them. Great job Ringer team!

Love Bill sharing his insights and how players have impacted the game. But, need to do more! Would love an in-depth analysis of your updated pyramid!!

I started listening to podcasts Recently so there is a lot of these to listen to all the guests are great and bill Simmons is a great host

This is so cool

Tons of sound bytes by NBA legends in this pod! Jackie is an elite journalist and a good host but the pod is a lot more than just her talking the whole time. 5 stars

Very professional and thorough.

I typically tune out sports podcasts my fiancé plays on our car rides, but not this time. When I heard Jackie’s Icons club series, my ears perked up and I found myself getting super into the series. Great writing, wonderful clips, and an insightful host make this series binge worthy. If more sports podcasts were like this, I would actually listen to them. Please continue passing the microphone to smart women, and do whatever you can to keep Jackie as the host!

Great pod stories thank you Jackie

One of the best basketball narratives of all time. Amazing first hand descriptions of how generations pass the torch to new generations. What an amazing story teller and journalist. Thank you. There are some, in the comments, not understanding the greatest players in NBA history are also social justice heroes. Thank you for persevering and telling the story of one of the greatest engines of change in America.

I literally got goose bumps at certain parts because it’s so well written. Thank you for this. The only thing I can say was missing was during Kobe and shaq tim Duncan should’ve been apart of it because of how dominant he was during that time period as well. Outside of that this was great

I love the icons series Jackie has done here. The effort put forth really shows throughout the series. My only issue is the consistent characterization of Jacob Blake as unarmed during the shooting. He was not, in fact, unarmed. The police reports and eyewitness statements both reflect that he had a knife and had resisted arrest even after being tased multiple times. I appreciate the focus on black athletes influence on social justice movement in the past and present, but in this particular instance I do not agree with the framing that he was another casualty of police brutality. Police brutality does happen and the police do have a racial bias from my perspective, but I do not think the Jacob Blake shooting was one of those instances.

Take a shot every time Jackie says social justice. Compensating much old white lady?

Best basketball podcast I’ve heard and not at all surprised. Jackie Mac is an MVP and master storyteller. Thanks hear episodes were fantastic and I’m sad they are wrapping up, honestly. Wish there were going to be more. Minor disappointment was not having Magic or Bird interviewed for the Magic-Bird episode but as I said, this is a nitpick criticism. Outstanding series!

I’m going to compare this podcast to the fast and furious series. Fast and furious was already good but when the rock joined the series it hit legendary status. Jackie MacMullan just shot this podcast to the moon. I hope this motivates Bill Simmons to comeback on this podcast.

this is by far the best basketball content I have ever consumed. I wish Jackie Mac was my mom.

This podcast is BANANAS!!!! Thank you Jackie!!!!

Or is it Bob Ryan? Great series well done Jackie, Sean, and the team! Love seeing Jackie get a well deserved platform!!!!

I was really excited about this one. I love NBA/basketball history. But the constant focus by Jackie on race was pretty discouraging. Like there are so many nuggets of greatness and the possibilities of this podcast could have made it one of the best, but there is always this push to speak about the racial side of things. I get it early on but what’s the need to go through and make it a big deal in every episode? It completely ruined the first couple episodes as there was this attempt at relating it to todays athletes. I guess sports must be political/social all the time now too huh? I used to like Jackie…this one gave me a bad taste. There are some definite good spots but overall I was disappointed.

Great Job Jackie!

This is NBA crack. Jackie M is an icon.

Thank you for these incredible stories there’s enough daily podcasts out there they give us the ins and outs of what’s going on in today’s NBA what is great storyteller you are Jacky thank you

I’m not a huge fan of the current NBA but I grew up during the Jordan and Kobe eras & I loved the idea of a behind-the-scenes look at the old guard. Jackie’s narration is great but I felt a tad lost during the episodes. While the individual stories/anecdotes presented are all fascinating and left me feeling like I learned something new, they didn’t live up to the series’ billing as a cohesive reveal at an exclusive club. It felt more like random stories loosely tied together through overarching topics (e.g. social justice).

Thank you, Jackie!

LOVE icons ❤️❤️❤️

Love Icons. Her writing is paralleled with perfect narration. Can’t wait for next one. Thank you.

As usual great work by Jackie. Thanks for the Dr. J episode. Looking forward to more from this series. I love learning more about NBA players from my generation. Wonderful job team!

Love the new show Jackie!

Does Jackie bring her game to this series? Indubitably

Jackie the legend taking about legends is the best thing on my pod list this year so far. I look forward to episode and am sad when they’re over.

Love the new content. Great job by Jackie

Such a fresh voice ! Decades of insight and connections

One of my favorite podcasts ever. It’s so amazing that we get to hear all this for free

Really looking forward to this one. Not enough people talk about Bill Russel and not just his impact on modern athletes but what he and a lot of others went through in the 60s(which is creepily not that long ago, which is nuts) my fiancé is a teacher and once did a subject on racism in sports and I asked if she’d be talking about Bill Russel and she said “no, who’s that” and I don’t know if it’s just because I’m a Celtics fan or a basketball junkie but I went on a whole silique about his impact and bottom line is: yeah, I’m looking forward to this podcast

Loved the first episode of the icons club! Don’t hear enough from the former greats. Can’t wait for the next episodes! Also loved listening to the Book of Basketball episodes.

Love the Icons pod Jackie, great work!

Love Jackie and you get MJ on an interview you get 5 stars lol

So excited to hear these stories from the legend Jackie Mac.

The Len bias stuff was a bust. Bring back actual BOB pods

Please come back. It’s almost more fun than actually watching basketball.

Bill loves basketball and it shows in this podcast. These episodes are like conversations I’ve had with my friends over beers.

Need more past game rewatchables I really enjoy them

Love this. Aren’t too many podcasts where you can find biographies/real life stories of these guys.

Great podcast! You should definitely listen to if your a basketball fan.

They were so informative, and so fascinating. I was born in 90 but this story still has a sadness. Hearing all the interviews and points of view was great!

Other than that love the pod.

Enjoying the Len Bias podcast series.

Nothing like left coast whites screaming that everyone and everything is racist.