bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

brutal lol https://deadspin.com/a-peoples-history-of-bill-simmons-making-up-corny-thing-1826267364

DS just can’t leave Bill alone.

it was more fun to hear jeff goldblum poke fun at how lame and shallow bill's movie opinions are a few months ago.

fun fun. anyway, those chants are very bad. I started listening to his podcasts, and I think I've finally reached simmons saturation. just hearing his voice bothers me now. and then his non-writer friend crew podcasts are also so terrible. it all gives me the feeling that I'm eating at a whalburgers.

i feel so bad for whoever had to research that piece

seems like a passion project by david roth, who is a great writer btw

Of course there would be a chant using WNBA as an insult.

“since you’re a girl I’ll walk you thru this”

yeah roth is cool and simmons as anyone with a brain knows is good, seems like he was just having fun with the piece

ftr i like simmons fine but he’s not someone where i’d really relish digging thru the archives.

some ppl take fart sniffing as a way of life and who am i to judge

was listening to the dave chang podcast ... chang is like absurdly deferential to simmons, like simmons is his idol or somethin'... also i learned that rian johnson and karina longworth are a couple

yeah, chang gives me the same grown up boss baby vibes I get from simmons. he is certainly a better food podcast host than "joe house", though.

What did Jeff Goldblum say to him? I couldn't make it through that pod. That deadspin article is very funny.

Simmons kept asking variations of "you were in X movie. X was huge. What was that like?" and goldblum kept pointing it out to him instead of just telling a story about X movie.

Goldblum told him he sounds like "a producer" and indicated that they were poorly formed interview questions.

lolll

today’s Bill Simmons Podcast is LOADED pic.twitter.com/N3Yt6oiOlK

— FatCroix Slim (@killakow) June 27, 2018

with nacho cheese and spicy ranch?

lmao that's pretty good

Haralabos Voulgaris comes across as super shady. Deadspin or someone similar should write a profile of this dude. Everything online is personal myth making bullshit.

lol he's a lifelong gambler, they are a shady bunch. I...know a lot of gamblers and haralabob comes across as pretty thoughtful and well-adjusted to me

looking forward to this pod, hopefully simmons lets him talk

if you go back like 5 years you can find pods with bob talking about his life. he grew up poor in canada, did some hustling, and started making serious money when he found some patterns in nba games. he seems like a really boring dude tbh but i like listening to him talk about ball.

boring maybe but seems like a chill guy. I would be his friend

to get courtside seats obv

it's cute how much he loves his little elderly dog

lol this pod is heated, good stuff

https://deadspin.com/bill-simmons-gets-new-contract-at-hbo-1827829030

btw the ringer has become.....very good?

it has some good writers.

theyve definitely found a groove

It's an everyday read now and not just the occasional link.

a bit embarrassed to admit that I love that they're essentially going to to rolling updated power rankings lol

http://tradevalue.theringer.com/

he has dray above klay clearly been lurking

tbf theyve both been bad this year

this is deranged content... michelen stars and gold pantheons this is more complicated than school let me breathe man

3rd season is prob when ppl are least psyched about young players

cj above kyrie huh lol

also a lot of this is just wrong on a pure base level... like jayson tatum over KD. if the celtics called the warriors and offered that trade straight up the warriors would laugh in their faces but boston would do it in a heartbeat

yeah there some overvaluing of young players on cheap contracts going on here for sure, which is all well and good but you have to take in to consideration that young players are bad

if the bulls called the suns and offered wendell carter straight up for deandre ayton the suns would block the bulls front office's number

btw watched ayton the other night and hes def got some offensive game but yeah he looked tired out there energy levels cld be a problem

i don't necessarily think ayton is better than carter but the idea that carter has more trade value than ayton right now is crazy

its wrong for sure

the list is bad also why did they do the fancy design which relegates the info youre looking for to a fraction of the screen (on desktop)

it does look way better on mobile

yeah I think the list would be better if he abandoned the tiers because clearly there are some players on bigger contracts that would definitely get traded for cheaper youngr players as jordan mentioned. I like the michelin stars tho haha, and the pantheon levels are just from his book

got the #1 right obv :P

its funny because michelin ratings at least for american restaurants are also very bad and nonsensical

brow is way better than "the freak"