bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

like dayo says, the bar is set low -- if i had no idea who simmons was & i just flipped on the game i would've thought he was just another announcer, albeit one that was a bit more zingy to the bad players

esp for his second game ever (he did some college game a few years ago) i thought he was totally serviceable, sometimes even funny

anyway, on tbob - its solid, its just wayyyyyyy too long. i went into it liking his schtick and finished it not being able to stand him. too much simmons, too much pyramid, too much everything. im warming up to him again but his style's really unsuited to something that big.

yeah idk i guess i'm just used to his voice? idk

i don't really give a shit about your voice as much as i do about what you say

i don't think i actually finished tbob--it should've ended with the pyramid--but it lends itself well to going back into certain sections and re-reading them

i could see that book being like youre plowing through it cause its readable then like 2/3 through you realize you hate this guy and why am i reading this

if im gonna listen to a nigga for 3 hours i better like your voice... thats why jon miller owns and bryant gumbel doesnt

i could see that book being like youre plowing through it cause its readable then like 2/3 through you realize you hate this guy and why am i reading this

― ice cr?m, Sunday, December 12, 2010 11:22 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark

haha that was my exact experience

I think broadcasting voices are pretty important - just try to imagine if bill simmons was in the booth when bobby thomson hit that homer

well great calls are great but this was a west coast time reg season nba game--no one's saying he should call the super bowl

if im gonna listen to a nigga for 3 hours i better like your voice... thats why jon miller owns and bryant gumbel doesnt

― Princess TamTam, Sunday, December 12, 2010 10:22 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark

well, i agree with this, but i think it matters A LOT less for color guys than it does for play by play -- simmons might get a bit obnoxious if he was doing two games a week, but it was a nice change up at times to have a dude making cracks about dampier not being able to make lay ups & shit

okay everyone stop comparing play by play guys to color guys

cut him off at the roots tbh

that's one of my problems with him, his way of life seems completely foreign to my experience in life, like his actual adherence to played out LOL WOMEN kinda shit, he's the sort of dude that if i met i'd move away from. i get the same feeling reading his column that PTT had reading his book.

i mean if your benchmark is one of the most famous moments in sports history...

voice is meaningful for sure but i feel like the canned deep announcer style is some v strange shit that were all just used to

i didnt actually hear the game btw, but i will say that i'd rather listen to a billion simmons-called games than one more by reggie miller or mark jackson

I'm just saying nobody should encourage him to spend more time in the broadcast booth, is all

should replace all espn announcers with mexican soccer announcers anyway

what is this about

sportsguy33 Bill Simmons
Hey CPP: took you out of TBOB cuz you trashed it without ever mentioning that you used to email me all the time until I told you to eff off.

sportsguy33 Bill Simmons
I just thought it was dishonest. You came off like a spurned lover in that piece. But seriously, good luck with your red-hot career.

who is cpp?

Charles Pierce

http://deadspin.com/5712872/

ah

the deej n whiney of b-ball

lol

wow does he come off like a whiny bitch there. i mean if you release a book for everyone to read i think people have the right to critique it.

I do enjoy reading Simmons, but he really is coming off more and more like a douche lately; plus he's clearly nowhere near as funny as he used to be. I think he goes above and beyond to try to be "quotable", which results in a lot of stupidity

http://a.espncdn.com/media/pdf/101210/simmons_book.pdf

wow thats pretty bitchy to edit a guy out, feel liek he should prob release the emails in question at this point so we can all have closure

lol is that an unprotected copy of the book up on the espn content delivery network

That PDF isn't working for me anymore for some reason.

he also, uh, edited out a mention of free darko for some reason

http://freedarko.blogspot.com/2010/12/highlights-for-children.html

what is this about

sportsguy33 Bill Simmons
Hey CPP: took you out of TBOB cuz you trashed it without ever mentioning that you used to email me all the time until I told you to eff off.

sportsguy33 Bill Simmons
I just thought it was dishonest. You came off like a spurned lover in that piece. But seriously, good luck with your red-hot career.

― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, December 13, 2010 3:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is so lol! no one seems to grasp that the only people simmons hates are other journalists.

he reads blogs but he wishes he lived in a world where they didnt exist, even tho he is basically the proto sports blogger, its tuff

He was fine with them existing when he published the first edition though. What did FD do since then?

apparently they didn't like the book

http://img.freebase.com/api/trans/image_thumb/en/larry_bird?pad=1&errorid=%2Ffreebase%2Fno_image_png&maxheight=64&mode=fillcropmid&maxwidth=64 "fuck you, bill"

Who is the most embarrassing of Bill Simmons' sycophantic friends (non-celebrity division): Joe House, Cousin Sal, "reality TV czar" Dave Jacoby, or JackO?

u mean theyre not all the same person?

joe house, easily

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/files/2010/12/BillSimmons.jpg

the celebrity division isn't even a contest because of klosterman, right?

yup!

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0904/pg2_group_300.jpg
http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0904/pg2_group2_300.jpg

plaid shorts: check
flip flops: check
not pictured: strip club handjobs

not pictured: strip club handjobs

and thank fuck for that

the celebrity division isn't even a contest because of klosterman, right?

― Clay, Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

gladwell

^^ I was gonna say

I always thought it was funny that Simmons friends all have the most typical/predictable names. Not the ppl listed by poly but just random "buddies" he'll bring up in a column

http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/12/17/the-book-of-basketball-and-staggering-casual-sexism/

lol this is what i was talking about upthread re the names of simmons' friends

I flew to San Fran to hang out with my buddies Bish, Mikey and Hopper

seriously who the fuck has friends ACTUALLY named "bish" & "hopper" -- sounds like something from "porky's" or some shit