@BillSimmons
To be fair, you just returned from vacation and recorded a pod where you absolved KD of all wrongdoing with his career decisions and said the Lakers were better off not extending LeBron
@BenGolliver
Maybe if Griffin didn’t construct a roster with all professional bricklayers around Zion, the lane wouldn’t be clogged with 10 bodies and the refs might be able to see the fouls 🤔
4 months from now,,,
Ainge: “Jayson Tatum? You must have misheard me. I said ‘Jaylen’. I can see how you mixed up the ‘Jay’ names. Yeah, sorry about that. But since you’re out of options, how about we give you an extra protected first rounder for the confusion.”
@haralabob
And Wilt’s was when there was no offensive goaltending so he was alley oop dunking his teammates shots…Kobe’s been posthumously overrated, but his 81 is probably the greatest scoring feat ever when you add in context
@KevinOConnorNBA
World Cup style playoffs also guarantees that ppl will consider this an *asterisk* title because of the randomness it’ll invite. Get weird, NBA, but not this weird.
Finishes protein shake...
My brain:
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“Now I’m done.”
@JoshEberley
It’s also beyond irrational on KD’s part to believe ppl wouldn’t demerit him for joining at team that just went 73-9 in the whole Best Player argument
@basketballtalk
As much as I dislike Gilbert, this has to be a fake leak from people within the Lakers’ organization. Gilbert’s franchise value gets cut in half when Bron isn’t there - even Gilbert isn’t arrogant enough to want that
The Los Angeles Lakers are adding these former NBA coaches to their coaching search: Lionel Hollins, Frank Vogel and Mike Woodson, league sources tell
@TheAthleticNBA
@Stadium
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@KevinOConnorNBA
While I like the creativity, this would seem to be a huge disadvantage to the top tier teams - instead of having to be beaten 4 out of 7, they could lose a couple fluke games and be out without even getting an elimination game. World Cup style playoffs is a lil too extreme IMO
The irony of all of this is that the Cavs probably would have beaten the Rockets in the Finals. CP3 would have missed the first 2 games & probably have been limited the rest of the series. LeBron was playing the best b-ball of his career before punching a whiteboard after G1 🤫
Reporting with
@Rachel__Nichols
: ESPN has obtained Houston's audit of last season's Game 7 against Golden State and the memo they intended to send the league with it:
CA schools should break away from the NCAA and start their own minor league that pays ATHs. Tons of schools would soon follow suit. NCAA has no legal power or authority, only the power schools allow it to have.
if California allows college athletes to earn money from their names, images, and likeness, the NCAA may keep California colleges from competing for national titles
Imma try something here in honor of
@Chris_Broussard
and
@arye_abraham
,,, my “sources” are telling me the Heat are going to deal for Russell Westbrook and then sign Boogie Cousins
Wrote this back 2017:
“In short, Kyrie sounds like a pompous teenager who, in attempting to use an expansive vocabulary, ends up mistakenly switching tenses, over-using adjectives and speaking in the abstract — thereby turning his answers into inappropriately long soliloquies.”
@MarcJSpearsESPN
Has Harry Giles played one minute of good basketball the past 3 years? You must be waiting for Darko to finally realize his potential too
Bill Simmons agenda for Finals:
Today: Predict a Heat upset, lay groundwork for future “this is LeBron’s biggest failure” take. Randomly try to say 17, 18 Cavs were pretty evenly matched against Dubs. Hedge by saying the refs might swing series by giving LeBron too many calls
@MichaelVPina
@ringernba
@ringer
“The Lakers are not a good basketball team.” Every. Damn. Season. Lol. Sometimes is way right; sometimes it’s way wrong. Respect the consistency 🫡
Not necessarily ripping Broussard, but when’s the last time he or any of these NBA “sources” guys have a) been right about a rumor; and b) reported that rumor the same way the entire time instead of flip-flopping every couple of days?
Chris Broussard says the Nets are “Going as hard at Anthony Davis as anybody... Brooklyn — their dream is to pair AD and Kyrie.”
Mentions D’Angelo Russell & Jarrett Allen as trade pieces.
My eyes tell me Kevin Durant and Kawhi Leonard are the best players in the NBA. Do the stats back it up?
Why KD, Kawhi, not MVP candidates Giannis, Harden, are NBA's best |