bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

that was pretty fucking raw

brutal, and whitlock deserves every last fucking word of it and then some more

i remember first hearing of whitlock on a killer mike song, actually. "that's life II," off pl3dge, where he's like "we not listenin to that sellout shit that jason whitlock writin'"

he was always on that sellout respectability politics angle but feels like it's taken a marked turn for the worse of late. also i know in his mind that motherfucker thinks he inherited ralph wiley's mantle/mission/whatever, he's basically said that he sees himself as having stepped into those shoes, and holy shit does that disgust me, like there probably isn't a sportswriter working that i wouldn't scoff at the claim by but man it sure as fuck isn't jason whitlock

whitlock straight up strikes me as a trump voter

heh - http://deadspin.com/whats-going-on-with-grantlands-nfl-podcast-1737360062

sitting across the couch from Colin Cowherd, who even you would agree doesn’t amount to a ruptured left nut on his best day.

niiiiice

rip

http://espnmediazone.com/us/espn-statement-regarding-grantland

well there it is

where will lowe go :[ :[ :[

wow

i can't believe they just blew it up like that

@MJ_Baumann
Well that's the first time I've ever found out I was laid off via Twitter

klassy

so weird, just a couple of weeks ago they said it was doing better than ever

gonna reckon they killed it out of spite due to last month's mass exodus (like 6 people left at once, iirc) and then a handful of others filed out in the following weeks. apparently those who were will there will be paid for their remaining contracts

idk, i think the rumors that ESPN might have real revenue problems on the horizon are true

heh - https://mobile.twitter.com/bensimmons25/status/659931799196409857

https://twitter.com/kentremendous/status/660161621893877764

i don't think this is gonna do much to solve those revenue problems

yeah i just think it may be symptomatic, they've been doing a lot of penny pinching in various places. i think it's part of why they've let a lot of big name talent split and then filled holes w/ ppl already on payroll.

@BillSimmons
I loved everyone I worked with at G and loved what we built. Watching good/kind/talented people get treated so callously = simply appalling.

grantland was there to humor simmons and simmons is gone

slothroprhymes
Posted: October 30, 2015 at 12:07:19 PM
where will lowe go :[ :[ :[

espn shd just bring him over to the main site

guy who does the shot charts too

@ZachLowe_NBA: /turns phone off

i'm sure they will

senior espn source saying 'we're getting out of the pop culture business' lacks self-awareness

as do a lot of the ppl mourning grantland, tbh

most of the grantland pop culture podcasts folded a few weeks ago as writers fled the scene

was sad to see them go but rarely visited the site

"pop culture" is a meaningless description, grantland always felt like a p poorly thought through idea, just like make "good" stuff, no real identity there

shdve just made a site of beggin ass frat boy simmons clones imo

https://twitter.com/ATLHawks/status/660158798317899776

well, ILM was once mentioned on "Hollywood Prospectus" so they clearly knew their pop culture

guy who does the shot charts too

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so we can (not) pay insider fees to read him

That was unsurprising and yet kind of surprisingly vindictively done

dont f/w the mouse

found out jonathan abrams has a book coming out so that's nice - http://www.amazon.com/Boys-Among-Men-Prep---Pro/dp/0804139253/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446237291&sr=8-1&keywords=jonathan+abrams+boys+among+men

can't say I gaf, but RIP

https://mobile.twitter.com/Wesley_Morris/status/660183773796048896

In retrospect, the editorial exodus looks to have been more or less the end. One Grantlander says that no one knew the four editors were leaving to join Simmons until the day they left. That’s because, another source says, Simmons has been warring with ESPN both by acting as a source for writer Jim Miller, and by more nefarious means.

While Grantland writers are on contract, editors are at-will. The four editors’ exits were coordinated, and Simmons, according to this source, told the editors who jumped ship with him that a condition of their employment was that they couldn’t warn anyone at ESPN they were leaving, in order to hit the site as hard as possible.

“He put his beef with Skipper above the jobs of dozens of people,” one Grantland staffer said.

lol oh please

don't really care about grantland, w/e
simmons on twitter last few months is like 95% shit about gambling. do gamblers even find that interesting??

also he doesn't seem like a very good gambler?

ok this from the Deadspin comments is pretty great

For when the One Sports Network comes

To write against your skills

It marks not that you won or lost

But if you paid the bills

lol

so probably nothing but i know simmons hated the name grantland and wanted to name it the goat and there's this - http://thegoat.com/

Simmons hated the name Grantland? I didn't know that.

I don't give a shit about Bill Simmons or sportswriting, but Grantland published some great stuff.

oh hold up this is i love hoops, never mind, i'll get me coat /trayce

You're welcome to stay also I already stole your gum from your coat pockets

you're welcome to stay jaymc

http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/153485/84284006.gif

*deep coke snort*

Bill Simmons ‏@BillSimmons 9m9 minutes ago
3-way deal: Boogie to the Knicks, Porzingis to Boston, Lopez plus Boston's unprotected Brooklyn 2016 pick to Sacramento... WHO SAYS NO?