bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

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

https://twitter.com/freddiedeboer/status/672075912423333888

otm

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

enjoyed this

His new podcast has been pretty good. I also enjoyed that GQ interview.

@BillSimmons
I love how @espn just takes 4 large paragraphs of content from my podcast without actually linking to it. twitter.com/espn/status/67…

lol nice

http://i.imgur.com/22l1ltN.png

http://theringer.com/

http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/17/media/bill-simmons-the-ringer/index.html

whos funding the quality journalism with a strange affection for reality tv this time

so does he have a show on HBO?

The Ringer will be "the exclusive home to all of Simmons' written material," according to his spokesman, while HBO will be his home on TV.

doesnt seem like theres an actual show yet

was gonna say this should be called the stinger but realized basically any rhyming word is a better name

yeah show is this summer. the ringer is not a great name.

Rachel Nichols show on espn starts tomorrow

The Ringer is Medium's first premium site, cooooool

huh i wonder if that means medium is funding it or theres another entity involved and theyre just using mediums platform

at least we know itll have better (web) design than grantland

extremely man baby voice

http://i.imgur.com/9ZqNUXP.png

lol this guy

Bill Simmons: I’m glad you mentioned that. You know why I can’t have Brian Windhorst on? Because ESPN won’t let anyone from ESPN come on my podcast, which is fine, but it’s just laying down the ground rules for what is going to unfold over the next few years. It could have been friendly, and it’s not going to be friendly.

Joe House: It’s already unfriendly.

BS: It’s going to be more unfriendly.

JH: I’m excited to see how unfriendly it can get.

BS: Just wait until the Ringer hires a public editor for ESPN, that writes for the Ringer. That’s going to get very unfriendly.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/bill-simmons-declares-war-on-espn.html

takes a scenario when ESPN are the clear dickheads and effortless makes himself the dickhead.

i just got the bill simmons podcast network joke

bill said a swear

that promo was so bad

it was beyond terrible

he should be be embarrassed

it's really insanely incredibly absurdly bad

wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1dGNbtHdV8