bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

c's had the best record early last year but everyone thought that was spurs-esque, heat were the favorites from the minute The Decision ended

simmions srsly thinks the celtics can make trades and turn into a title contender, the mind boggles

i mean m all for blowing it up but not to trade for odom and marion wtf, blow it up and start over

xposted from other thread:

xp it was a wacky column for sure. i can kinda sympathize from a c's fan perspective because we knew the window was closing but that doesn't make it any easier.

i do agree with him that if the plan is to do nothing in season and make it happen later with the cap space and 2 draft picks that is......scary

― call all destroyer, Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Presti: "Look at your new team — Gasol, Brandon Bass, Marion, Pierce and Mo Williams as starters, with Odom, Wilcox, Pietrus and Bradley as your first four subs. If Gasol and Odom get going, that's a dangerous 6-seed in the East, right?"

lol how did we even get here, this is a portrait of mental illness

i mean m all for blowing it up but not to trade for odom and marion wtf, blow it up and start over

― lag∞n, Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:24 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah his goal seems to be to make the playoffs as an atlanta-type team for the rest of pierce's contract which is a weird goal

also no mention of the baby for bass trade which im p sure was a good move that happened in the last four years

that's a horrible starting lineup too!

yeah that crazytown team has three power forwards and pierce moving to the 2 plus a bunch of garbage off the bench

they would get obliterated by every remotely fast guard

and im sorry cuban knows whats up, he's playing with house money with marion right now and then he's gonna get dumped for cap space after this year, that's not a guy i would go near other than as a depth rental

this column is the 'whitney was killed by the illuminati let me connect the dots 4 u' of the nba, the logic is so convoluted and lacking in any perspective its impossible to know where to start untangling it

lol

i mean i remember after the ray & kg trades everyone was like welp they have a two year window at best before the wheels come off and they were a perk knee away from the 2010 chip

i think ainge would have blown it up completely last summer but with the lockout it kind of made more sense to patch it together and let the old dudes roll one more time, which i am fine with

its funny he chose sam presti as his avatar considering making tons crazy trades for old players is v much not his approach, however blowing up an old team and starting over from scratch w/tons cap room and draft picks is, thats how i could tell it want really presti talking it was simmons

portrait of mental illness otm, I have an image of simmons in a straitjacket dictating to a poor intern at the grantland office, perhaps simmons is wearing a hannibal mask

someone really should hire simmons as their gm, for lolz

"a portrait of mental illness" is so otm

20 min podcast w/dirk is worth listening to--dirk is such a chill guy.

i was into that celtics column up until he used perk & rondo as his mouthpiece for being butthurt over "sports being a business" or whatever

yah its kinda telling that the whole thing hinges on this supposedly powerful emotional element, because it makes no sense from a basketball pov, Perkins was injured and playing like shit and has continued to be injured and playing like shit while rondo has continued to play at a high level and even improve somewhat

it's hilarious that someone who has almost built his entire identity around concocting "bold" and franchise-altering trades wrote an entire column that boiled down to "the gm of my favorite team made a trade that enforced that sports is a business"

i thought the celtics were unbutu but it turns out theyre windows

more like ubuntough shit, you've been traded!

yes!

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/18687/b-s-report-barack-obama

B.J. Steiner ‏ @DocZeus
All I want to know is if Simmons brought up his Entertaining As Hell Tournament with the President?

"President Obama visits the B.S. Report to talk the Bulls, college football playoffs, and his favorite Wire character."

according to google it is omar

bill simmons kind of wields an insane amount of power, i am concerned

we r doomed

The interview is engaging enough, I think.

turn back before its too late

obama has league pass!

:)

he pays for it himself tho

I feel like all 300 million people of america would be willing to chip in for him to get league pass for free, it would be like .00000000001 cent each, yes we can

i would check the "do you want 1 penny to go to the president's league pass" box on my tax return for sure

"i've got another five years here"

http://www.iamagm.com/news/2012/05/03/espns.bill.simmons.has.withdraw.nba.mvp.vote.due.gambling

ha

bill simmowned

can't wait for this dude to have a fall from grace, but I have a feeling it won't bc popular sports writers just keeping sucking for decades until they die

eh i don't really feel like he deserves any sort of comeuppance

looks like Simmons didn't even know he had a vote until the season was nearly over, so yeah there are some questions that need to be asked here, but this is basically a non-story

i'm not really a big fan; I just feel he's way past his "sell by" date, even though I admit in the past, when I didn't know how clueless he could be, I did like his articles quite a bit

there's only so many Karate Kid references one man can make

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8026268/the-consequences-caring

truly very good piece

i was disappointed that there wasn't more about the basketball game, but yeah

yeah wow

occasionally, he's still got it in a way no one else does:

It's not about watching your team win the Cup as much as that moment when you wake up thinking, In 12 hours, I might watch my team win the Cup. It's about sitting in the same chair for Game 5 because that chair worked for you in Game 3 and Game 4, and somehow, this has to mean something. It's about using a urinal between periods, realizing that you're peeing on a Devils card, then eventually realizing that some evil genius placed Devils cards in every single urinal. It's about leaning out of a window to yell at people wearing the same jersey as you, and it's about noticing an airport security guy staring at your Celtics jersey and knowing he'll say, "You think they win tonight?" before he does. It's about being an NBA fan but avoiding this year's Western Conference finals because you still can't believe they ripped your team away, and it's about crying after that same series because you can't believe your little unassuming city might win the title. It's about posing for pictures before a Stanley Cup clincher, then regretting after the fact that you did. It's about two strangers watching you cry at a stoplight. It's black and white, but it's not.