bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

basketblol

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One of the better Onion photoshops

NBAHaus ‏@NBAHaus 3m
I feel like @BillSimmons tells Doug and Jalen his ideas before the show. Doug and Jalen tell him "Not a good idea".. Bill proceeds #NBA

Rizz ‏@Rizzmigizz 12m
"It's almost like ___" - Bill Simmons

bill simmons is trending

John Lurie ‏@lurie_john 2m
Bill Simmons is trending because he has been replaced by an actual Talking Gerbil.

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/6/13/5806496/sage-steele-bill-simmons-espn-head-shake

i cldnt get through the whole thing but its just astounding how much bill simmons americas biggest sports writer a guy who gets paid to talk abt basketball on tv whole steez is just talking nonsense http://grantland.com/features/24-lingering-questions-from-the-nba-finals

It's a great gig to have.

like comparing kawhi to pippen

Since Pippen was a 22-year-old rookie, Kawhi got a two-year career jump on him. But Pippen was Chicago’s backup playmaker, so he handled the ball way more than Leonard does (hence, more points and more assists). If you look at Kawhi’s first three playoff years …

writing off pippens superior stats cause he was was Chicago’s backup playmaker, in the nba thats a desirable skill ffs one of many pippen had that kawhi does not, its like saying oh he only had more points cause he was a better shooter, this guy

i understand he compared the spurs to the '04 red sox on tv, which is really the most bill simmons thing a person could do without referencing the godfather movies

Or the wire.

lol my god

Q: What was San Antonio’s luckiest moment of the past 15 years not counting their three lottery wins?

A: Not trading Tony Parker during the summer of 2010 or 2011 when 90 percent of the league would have reacted to 2010’s Phoenix sweep and 2011’s ass-kicking from Memphis by saying, “Let’s cash in our best trade asset and reboot this thing ASAP.” The lessons: Trust your infrastructure, trust continuity, don’t make big trades just to make big trades, and if that’s not enough, count on the fact that you’re the Spurs and you have a steady stream of horseshoes falling out of your ass.

BILL SIMMONS 2009
"Q: Can you please explain your asinine trade suggestion from your May 20 chat that the Spurs should throw away Duncan's last chance at a title by trading Tony Parker to Minnesota? I just want to make sure you're the dumbest writer on ESPN.com.
-- Anthony, El Paso, Texas
SG: Sure. I'll even go with Hubie Brown's second-person hypothetical tense for you.
OK, you're San Antonio. Your Duncan window is closing and so is your chance to contend. You're in NBA no-man's land, a little like Utah from 1999-2002: 45-50 wins guaranteed, no real chance of contending, no way of getting better because they spent too many years picking at the bottom of the first round. So what do you do? You can't trade Duncan; he's an icon and has to finish his career in San Antonio. You can't get fair value for Ginobili because of his injuries and because he's an expiring contract. Your best trade chip is Parker, a good character guy coming off a career year. He's also your most replaceable guy: a gifted scorer who can't shoot 3-pointers, isn't a traditional point guard and struggles to defend certain points. You only need to replace him with someone who can provide 80 percent of his numbers and you'll be OK. You also need to turn him into multiple pieces."

So the luckiest moment of San Antonio's last 15 years is not listening to Bill Simmons?

Simmons does often admit he's totally wrong about this sort of thing which is nice, but seriously lol @ him for this

Sometimes he just really gets an idea jammed up his ass and then when he's wrong he gets equally obsessed with shitting it out.

two things I like about Bill Simmons: 1) an ability to call himself out and 2) a refusal to fill the Grantland stable with writers like him even though doing so would be super easy (and cheap).

agreed 100%

Idk what's goin on or where I'd post this on ilnfl but I enjoyed this http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/09/23/3571146/bill-simmons-epic-rant-against-roger-goodell/

Simmons seemed to anticipate that his comments could rankle his employer, ESPN, which is an NFL broadcast partner (but has reported that the Ravens knew of the tape shortly after the incident). “I really hope someone calls me or emails me and says I’m in trouble for anything I said about Roger Goodell because if one person says that to me, I’m going public. You leave me alone. The Commissioner is a liar and I get to say that on my podcast.”

lol

he got suspended ~_~

three weeks lol

m/l for daring espn to suspend him

protect the shield

if he gets into a big protracted fight w espn i will let him back into my heart

What's he threatening to go public with??

prob just some ol behind closed doors bs no one but media obsessives will care about that he will never actually even say anyway since hes the most conventional man in the world but im still curious tbh

either that or it was just a weird turn of phrase

yeah i think he just meant he would say something publicly if his bosses told him to cut it out.

i hope he gets back on twitter and just rages.

Ha I was just waiting for this thread to get bumped with the inevitable suspension

P incredible that he got more than Stephen a smith got for implying mrs rice basically deserved it but I guess money talks

ESPN probably more afraid of the amount of inlfuence that he weilds

wonder what the contractual obligations regarding grantland/its writers are

im sure he cld get out of his contract if he wanted and espn wld happily keep grantland humming along

i dunno -- it's not like they could jettison nate silver and keep 538

they cld, not sure theyd want to

I'm fairly sure the worldwide leader owns grantland and simmons is just founder/ed in chief, and p sure both sides wanted it that way bc simmons can just walk away if he gets bored

I mean grantland basically exists as a perk to get him to sign his last contract so I doubt this suspension ends up anything bigger than "don't call an important business partner a liar until it's completely inevitably public knowledge and/or proven in a court of law"

yeah espn owns grantland and 538, silver gave them the name as part of his deal, grantland is the placeholder name their web designer used lmao

didn't the otl report basically call the nfl liars, if in less inflammatory terms? simmons wasn't even bashing espn, just daring them to fuck with him for showing a wee bit of journalistic integrity

I saw a grantland rice book in someone's recycling the other day and was half tempted to pick it up

yeah he was m/l paraphrasing espns reporting

The otl report used a little purple prose but definitely avoided asserting concretely that anyone knew anything that wasn't tied to a specific on the record quote

But yeah the point of the otl report is that any reasonable person immediately concludes that goodell is at best thoroughly incompetent or most likely incompetent and also a liar and also now engaged in a coverup to hide some lies

never read grantland rice but ive heard hes the ultimate old school mythologizer of athletes god amongst men etc various tedious bs, kinda ironic considering simmons made his name bringing everything down to the fans eye view

like larry bird?

larry bird is genuinely godly tho anyone can see that

http://i.imgur.com/fyPIxK5.jpg

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yeah it's not like olbermann hasn't gone absolutely volcanic about this pretty much every night. i guess it comes down to you can't threaten espn or they will shut you up for awhile.