bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

the article started off like it was going to be some sort of takedown of him as a racist (which may still be true) but ended up just being abbott airing his own personal grievances. it was petty and embarrassing given the moment

this is otm

sure but these stories have been around forever, it's also a trait that is pretty much universal among people with his kind of clout.

― k3vin k., Friday, June 26, 2020 2:17 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

untrue and frankly pretty toxic

still a fun read!

At both his sites, he has collected writers like they’re trophies he can display in his mancave. He hasn’t learned a thing from any of them.

this rings true for Dave Chang, as well. Bill remains committed to chicken parm.

tbf chang likes ch parm too

Bill goes to fancy restaurants and orders the steak

the henry abbott piece is great gossip but it also makes abbott look like a fucking insane person... as none of us are personally involved we can just enjoy it for bringing drama

yeah i came out of it liking both of them less. here for the dramz tho of course

i got more out of the tweets abbott collected than anything he said in his piece

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29375906/espn-show-confirms-decision-was-fan-idea-not-lebron-james

lol

as an editor, i surprisingly often have to nix the 'taking talents to' formulation

you certainly don't want things of that nature slipping into the pieces you edit

talents, crab rangoon, things of that nature

lol someones gotta dig into what simmons said over the years about the decision

ahaha, he literally pitched it to maverick carter or whoever?

yeap

that’s wiiiiild

the beauty of podcasts is it’s hard to find actual records of takes but I know for sure he has repeatedly said stuff about how the decision was a failure of having the wrong people around him or whatever back then. this is hilarious

lool

see if i were bill simmons i wouldve played it real cool everytime the topic came up

https://i.imgur.com/Y4QUqa5.png

Every life event is like sports. Every sports event is like a movie. Every movie is rewatchable.

-Buddha Simmons

imagining myself listening to a podcast of simmons rewatching goodfellas then becoming the unibomber

https://www.espn.com/general/page2/story?id=5366996&src=desktop

TLDR:

“So when Clemens went to Toronto, got in shape, won two straight Cy Youngs and forced a trade to the Yankees, really, a column called "Is Clemens the Antichrist?" became inevitable as soon as I found a bigger forum to write it. I hated that guy as much as you could hate a professional athlete without things getting creepy.

And you know what? What LeBron did to Cleveland last night was worse. Much worse.

It's one thing to leave. I get it. You're 25. You don't know any better. You're tired of carrying mediocre teams. You want help. You want the luxury of not having to play a remarkable game every single night for eight straight months. You want to live in South Beach. You want to play with your buddies. I get it. I get it. But turning that decision into a one-hour special, pretending that it hadn't been decided weeks ago, using a charity as your cover-up and ramming a pitchfork in Cleveland's back like you were at the end of a Friday the 13th movie and Cleveland was Jason ... there just had to be a better way.”

lool

i want netw3rk to do the whole nba desktop about this. get all the articles, pod audio, and video clips lined up and just completely roast his boss.

bill is a good sport he would like that

wait.... this news... what the fuck lmao

when i read the report it seemed like there were 8 critical things that occurred between the mailbag column and the decision itself and it wasn't really that interesting

the thing that nobody involved at any point could know is that lebron would choose miami and say "i'm taking my talents to south beach"

you can take a horse to water, but you can't make it light itself on fire and then drown

yup

lmao this is amazing

bill is a good sport he would like that

he does love content, idk.

obviously lebron is responsible for how it went down, but the fact that simmons did what he did to get the ball rolling is hilarious to me.

its very funny, and then he just carried on like he didnt do it

bill is not a good sport for the record i was just kidding

yeah he is a guy who for better or worse likes to make predictions and brag about his correct predictions and it’s something you think he’d mention when the topic comes up if he were proud of it

bill setting it up and immediately armchair fan tut-tutting the thing is just so pure

whats a cheap assist lol

Bill Simmons' in his latest podcast: "Luka's assists are like Bird's - they're not cheap assists... like the James Harden type of assists'.

— Andrew Soukup (@asoukuptx) August 10, 2020

crash toward the basket and kick it out for a three?

BS almost ruins Luka for me

he was basically talking about seeing passes that most ppl don't see vs. passing to a spot and knowing someone is there. it was pretty forced.

not sure where to put this, but netw3rk is leaving the ringer

some personal news! pic.twitter.com/flfHRoK9ax

— ☕netw3rk (@netw3rk) October 30, 2020

boooo

somethings afoot at spotify ringer

hi! today is my last day at the ringer. it’s been a delight working with so many thoughtful and brilliant people over the last four years. i was 22 and waiting tables in kentucky when they called me - i’ll be grateful always, to the ringer and to any of you who followed along ❤️

— haley o'shaughnessy (@HaleyOSomething) October 30, 2020

it's not spotify. people don't like working for bill because he's an asshole

is that what's going on? losing newtork seems like a big deal

idk about each individual situation but from what i've heard in aggregate yeah

also the union stuff there has been a huge battle even before spotify. i'm sure it hasn't been helped by the acquisition, but it was bill vs his employees in a way that really brought a lot of the underlying issues w/ working there to the surface (again, from what i understand). it doesn't seem like any of it has been resolved really

Too many of our members have said that they struggle to cover basic living expenses from month to month, and too many of our members say that they have received little to no salary increases even as they take on more responsibilities.

— Ringer Union (@RingerUnion) August 20, 2020