was going to recommend seven seconds or less myself, curious how it would read with some hindsight on the dantoni suns. also I thoroughly recommend The Last Shot which is a great investigation into coney island basketball culture in the 90s and how inner city kids are manipulated by recruiters. sounds a bit grimmer than it is, though it's pretty grim. main profile is of a 15 year old stephon marbury's high school squad!
― Clay, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
oh lol didn't see symsym also recommends last shot! sorta skipped over it after seeing 7 secs or less.
― Clay, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 09:17 (twelve years ago) link
yeah def gonna shoot for both of those
― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
the breaks of the game is fascinating too, especially if you enjoy david halberstam's patented way way too much detail style...there's twenty pages devoted to every benchwarmer's life story, but he still somehow makes it both compelling and relates each life to the path of the blazers and the state of the nba as a whole. ilh's numerous blazers fans can rep for it, right?
― marc gasloi (symsymsym), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 09:32 (twelve years ago) link
the 2nd best nba book ever (after the book of basketball obv)
― marc gasloi (symsymsym), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 09:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K0G4Q4JEL._SL500_AA300_.jpghttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ds0Jf00SL._SL500_AA300_.jpghttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417vJWhKwIL._SS500_.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://books.google.com/books?id=4kLJkLerSaAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&l=220
feat. "fuck you, bill."
― am0n, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
It was a sultry afternoon, and midway through the game, we went inside to the Dugout Club to cool off and talk. Simmons sounded as if he was having some regrets about Grantland. “It hasn’t been as much as fun as I had thought,” he told me. “I’m not sure I would do it again.” Too much of his time was being spent in the office, dealing with administrative tasks, which was encroaching on his column.
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/magazine/can-bill-simmons-win-the-big-one.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
“Come on, you’ve won two titles in a row!” Simmons said. He went on to compare Kay to a guy who picks up women at a bar for two weeks straight, “and then strikes out once and complains about it.”
we really need to start a rolling thread of eye rolling bill simmons analogies
― dayo, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
no we dont
― mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
“I printed out those 6,000-word columns and took them to the bathroom just like everybody else,” says A. J. Daulerio, the 37-year-old editor in chief of Deadspin, Gawker’s sports blog.
jeez I didn't know you felt so strongly about this!
― dayo, Thursday, 2 June 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
i hope grantland is good, but we'll see
― b.o.s.e. (banned ones still envy) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
A version of this article appeared in print on June 5, 2011, on page MM41 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: CAN BILL SIMMONS BIG ONE?.
― max tldr (k3vin k.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
wow that article is the most effective argument i've ever read for simmons being a legit douchebag
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 2 June 2011 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
"40 year old fratboy" is generally nagl as a way to live your life
― b.o.s.e. (banned ones still envy) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i feel like bill usually demonstrates one redeeming quality or another but nope not in that piece
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 2 June 2011 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
gawker
ESPN regular-guy superstar sports blogger writer blah etc. Bill Simmons is starting his own boutique sports site, Grantland, in the very near future. Is he excited? "It hasn't been as much as fun as I had thought," he tells the NYT magazine. "I'm not sure I would do it again." Pretty encouraging words, from the boss! Your staff is prepared to follow you to the ends of the earth and beyond, Bill Simmons!
lol
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 2 June 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/06/05/magazine/05simmons1/mag-05Simmons-t_CA1-articleInline.jpg
smh
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 2 June 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
Simmons is a funny, intelligent and original writer. He comes up with surprising angles and conceits — in a column last month, he applied quotes from “The Wire” to moments in the N.B.A. playoffs — that may not always work but certainly prevent him from becoming predictable.
loll waht writing a wire themed nba column is prob the most predictable thing he couldve done
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 2 June 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
i guess it's novel if youve never read him--author claims he's a fan so it's one of those nyt things where they take the reader's hand and lead them around
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 2 June 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
yo bill: less tweeting and website starting and podcasting; more column writing. thx
― pearsonic, Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
Reeling at the idea of Hipster Runoff, Humblebrag, and Bill Simmons in business together.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
You guys need to listen to his podcast from today. Simmons talks to the guy who wrote the ESPN oral history book and he goes into a tangent about how he shouldn't have talked to him because he comes across like an asshole.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
I turned it off after five minutes because it was so awkward.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah really the only podcasts he does that are worth it are the nba guys (stein/bucher/etc), his random wizards fan friend who seems pretty funny and they mostly stick to actually talking about basketball, and a few of the one-shot guests when he knows enough to mostly shut up and get out of the way like when jackie macmullen showed up a month or so ago
― a slight case of joe johnsonitis (agent hibachi), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
This one is utterly embarrassing. He mentions that he thought he came across a little rough, then they have to talk about, and then he brings it up again later, and ends with another mention because the guy is going to add some stuff and remove others when it comes out in paperback.
Confirms all the insecurities of the NYTimes piece.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
that photo is so weird -- i think the concept is fine but his expression is bizarre
― b.o.s.e. (banned ones still envy) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
it's so photoshopped, also since when did bill simmons look like alec baldwin
― dayo, Friday, 3 June 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
haha i was just thinking, he's looking sorta distinguished (meaning old) lately
― Princess TamTam, Friday, 3 June 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
Glenn beck imo
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Friday, 3 June 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, June 2, 2011 5:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
listening now; this is really lol. miller is handling it well.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 June 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
He handles it like a pro, even though he's obviously perplexed. I would have loved to see Miller's face as Bill whines and complains.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 3 June 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
i am feeling this kind of aghast anticipation for learning what exactly the overlap is of the aesthetics of bill simmons and carles
― call all destroyer, Monday, 6 June 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
carles on grantland is gonna be so ridiculous & unintentionally hilarious
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 June 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
that is really one of those ideas that everyone should've been excited about for 10 mins after it was pitched before slowly realizing that it's an awful, awful idea
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 June 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://hoosieraccess.com/files/2010/01/snl_really.jpg
― Clay, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
carles is gonna be on grantland?!?!
*pumps fist*
― dayo, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
he was listed among the "contributors"
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
we all know what hes gonna write abt
hipster jay cutler
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
knowing that bill simmons reads carles is an unfortunate colliding of the worlds in my head
I would have been much more comfortable knowing that simmons was unaware of carles's existence
― dayo, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
I could give a fuck about Carles, only name on the contributors list that matters is KEN TREMENDOUS.
(I also like Katie Bakes a lot, and Simmons himself. But seriously this could be like 99% garbage plus twice-yearly Mike Schur writing about sports/anything and it would give me something to read at least twice a year.)
― C-L, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
― dayo, Monday, June 6, 2011 8:24 PM (1 hour ago)
i was just thinking about this
― positive rapper (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
I skimmed the NYTMag piece, only lol was "baseball stat fetishization." Proof that sportswriters are the lowest form of life (ie God bless Barry Bonds).
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
19 hours until Grantland!!!!
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.babynametrain.com/name-graph2.php?_jpg_csimd=1&name_var=grantland&gender=boy
― am0n, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
welp http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6635763/welcome-grantland
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
ball semens
― am0n, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmhb7goxVB1qa9bmvo1_400.png
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://s0.2mdn.net/3159010/Subway_Grantland_SponsorByLogo_Pages.png
― am0n, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link