bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

man, that abbott piece is hot trash. starts off with what seems like will be an essay on diversity issues and shady practices and ends up being 5000 words on his own professional grievances. really pathetic

I feel like if I were to write a long essay where every other paragraph was me marveling at how this talentless hack kept pulling off these professional feats and getting big names to co-sign him, I might at some point ask myself, am I the one without the talent?

this is also a guy who published entire pieces on the jeffrey epstein thing that basically concluded "is there a link to the nba? i don't know, but probably!"

he used to complain abt deadspin a lot

― lag∞n, Friday, June 26, 2020 1:41 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is probably because Deadspin hated his fucking guts and were always posting the stupidest pettiest hit pieces on him all the time.

That Abbott article is garbage.

the bill simmons defender has logged on

he's an easy target and I'm sure has done all sorts of bad stuff but that article is the fluffiest of sour grapes. absolutely nothing of substance there

...disagree

what did you learn from that article other than he’s an overambitious cutthroat brown noser?

thats good enough for me

also a tantrum throwing lil bitch, i dont think any of those things are insubstantial, its a particular type of behavior that makes life shitty for people who have to be around people like him

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. and again 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

idk it's one of those things where if you come at someone like simmons you better really come correct and it was mostly just a bunch of workplace gossip

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