bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

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

― lag∞n, Friday, October 30, 2015 12:19 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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?

why would the celtics involve the knicks in that trade

haven't a clue, not to mention if you're momentarily thinking this impossible trade is possible, why would you want porzingis over boogie

that's what i'm sayin

simmons seems extremely bullish on porzingis (and probably sees him on the bird - nowitzki axis of White Basketball Saviors he's so fond of) and historically doesn't trust guys with attitude problems.

that is my casual read at least.

didn't bill push pretty hard on the Kevin Love is a natural fit for the Celtics angle too?

simmons LOVES boogie, always has. assume this is part of the running lol get a white guy to boston series as clay suggests

yeah bill is very pro-boogie - has always said stuff like, "wouldn't you be disgruntled if you had 12 different point guards and 4+ coaches in 5 years" etc

need to update my simmons.xls

euro wites r not actual wites smh everyone knows this

simmons nursed a fantasy of boogie coming to the celtics for awhile but he said on some recent pod that he'd given up it actually happening. he said it really sad also as if it had once been a real possibility but something had actually happened and now it wasn't instead of just simmons fantasized over it for so long that his tweets not somehow making it come to be made him lose faith in god.

tbf me realizing they could never have boogie also made me lose faith in god

i still believe

http://www.gq.com/story/president-obama-bill-simmons-interview-gq-men-of-the-year

cousin sal called larry bird overrated in passing monday and simmons damn near had a heartattack, it was pretty amusing

lol