bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

bill simmons' transition from a pure writer into an actual talking head whose voice we have to hear, has been one of the most infuriating things to have been witness to of the last couple of years

Not as infuriating as his talking head status meaning we get to hear from his friends like Jackoff and the human garbage disposal.

--but stern allegedly put the kibosh on SVG's involvement--

SERIOUSLY?

his podcast would definitely be about 5x better if he didn't sound like that

http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2012/10/10/did-david-stern-put-the-kibosh-on-stan-van-gundy-joining-espns-nba-countdown/

xp

its funny because simmons has been complaining abt how his voice is terrible forever and its true

lol stern is such a gangster

Dammit I love the Van Gundy Bros. Thanks for the link. Stern can do one.

every week I watch boardwalk empire and every week when Nucky seems inscrutable I remind myself "dude he is not inscrutable, he's the original Stern, that's all."

simmons should smoke a pack of reds a day, or maybe two packs, that might make his voice more bearable

The Cousin Sal imitation is far to on the money.

i actually enjoy the podcast jalen rose does now and then but hes kind of stiff on tv and that is an awful, awful lineup of talking heads

I like jalen

I hate Jalen's podcast. But he seems like a bro.

simmons is gonna be insufferable w the comedy routine

"so this is like when..."

magic is gonna have to watch road house to get ready

lol yeah

lmao

I hate Jalen's podcast. But he seems like a bro.

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, October 18, 2012 6:52 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

if you didn't hear the one where he told the patrick ewing vcr story at least go track that down

tell us the story

jalen was mad at ewing for some reason-- hard foul in a game i think or something-- but obviously wasn't going to pick a fight. somewhere in the arena after the game he saw ewing's COMBINATION TV/VCR rig with the team's stuff ready to be loaded on the bus or plane. so...he stole it.

hahahaha

oh and think it was in some big transport rig a la band equipment - so it obviously huge and also labeled with ewing's name

obviously funnier when he actually tells it

hah!

Simmons fan, Star Trek fan, or the man himself?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A7vyG51CIAEvGpK.jpg

lol

would have had mucho respect for Simmons had he run this BEFORE the deer antler story but still, kinda ballsy

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8904906/daring-ask-ped-question

eh don't care about PEDs

i have no idea what his point was (as usual these days when he tries to be serious)

his point was fair enough, we're inconsistent in how we judge ppl about PEDs - assholes like lance barry and a-rod are suspect but we don't care about AD or peyty because we like them - i just think talking about PEDs even more than we already do is just asking for a sports world completely devoid of joy. there are better issues to moralize about

feel like there's no much point in suspecting everyone who is capable of amazing sports accomplishments bc then you might as well stop watching (and his "list" seems to cover everyone who's not a mediocrity.)

- there are two sports guys
- espn sports guy shies away from discussing peds
- old school sports guy wants to discuss them. can we make this happen?
- he thinks ray lewis is a cheater
- he thinks adrian peterson is clean
- what a world, that doubt can be cast upon our noblest performers

he didn't make this point, but dudes who tear their triceps and miss entire seasons are at significant risk of losing their jobs, while dudes who use deer antler spray are apparently rather less so

feel like there's no much point in suspecting everyone who is capable of amazing sports accomplishments bc then you might as well stop watching (and his "list" seems to cover everyone who's not a mediocrity.)

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, February 1, 2013 7:59 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

exactly

he has a pretty clear point imo. It's that we could enforce stricter or more effective drug testing but we don't want to in part (and this is his main point) the media chooses to overlook the elephant in the room.

missing a "because" in there

wait what's the elephant in the room?

(NB i skipped the last third of it)

that many of the accomplishments and quick recoveries that the sports media likes to hype are phony because of PEDs.

oh right, that's basically what i said. it's ok when cool ppl do it but bad when assholes do

tbf the sports media is the fucking worst, elephants or no

he also gets into the grey areas of, like, why is putting a testosterone patch on your testicles this unforgivable sin but cutting-edge performance-enhancing medical techniques is just part of an athlete's life.

i mean if you take the anti-PED thing to it's logical conclusion we'd really never let an athlete come back from surgery.

I thought Kobe going to Germany to get stem cells was something that should probably be illegal, but what do I know

who knows. maybe Jordan was 'roiding the whole time. hooo boy would that shut some people up

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18l9v3yk1g0lfgif/k-bigpic.gif

otm

generally about the quality of his output these days

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9261768/nba-trade-value-part-3

this is pretty terrible halfway through

he overrates steph altho steph's contract is insane

also always will and always has overrated carmelo

yeah the melo section is just completely religious. you wouldn't trade melo for cp3 straight up? and his griffin "oh noes his per-game scoring and rebounding averages are down" shit i assumed was beneath him

if steph plays anything like this on that contract #3 is totally defensible tho

he remains otm about harden though