Rumors and blogs...Byron Scott has lost the Hornets?

[jemagee]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/081126&sportCat=nba

BTW - i found it just by pasting the first paragraph into google

[WayOutWest]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/081126&sportCat=nba

BTW - i found it just by pasting the first paragraph into google

Wow, Miley is hot!

[westkoast]

I should do a weekly installment of 'Bill Simmons is a moron'

"9. Is there a dumber argument in sports than "Chris Paul or Deron Williams"?

I argued before the season, passionately, that Paul was in a different league and earned myself a few death threats from the Salt Lake City area. (You stay classy, Utah.) Check out their 2009 stats through four weeks:

? Paul: 20.5 PPG, 12.2 APG, 2.9 steals, 52.3% FG, 85.6% FT.
? Williams: 7.5 PPG, 8.0 APG, 0.0 steals, 26.7% FG, 66.7% FT.

I mean, that's a landslide! Come on! Can we all agree to stop arguing about this?"

Sure you moron, as soon as you think a little bit.  There is a reason his stats are so low.  Maybe because the guy hasn't really played all that much this year? Hmmmm.  Basketball writer are you?

[jemagee]

Bill Simmons for some reason is popular - he should stick to writing the red sox, i know people who swear by him - i got a few chuckles from his 'terrible GM summit' but that was like fish in a barrel - with a bazooka.
Simmons thinks as much as his target audience, jeez he makes me miss SAS

[jn]

It's on ESPN but that's all there is about the Hornets.

[westkoast]

Bill Simmons for some reason is popular - he should stick to writing the red sox, i know people who swear by him - i got a few chuckles from his 'terrible GM summit' but that was like fish in a barrel - with a bazooka.
Simmons thinks as much as his target audience, jeez he makes me miss SAS

Sometimes he reminds me of a blogger more than a respected journalist with a name in the sports world.

[Ted]

I should do a weekly installment of 'Bill Simmons is a moron'

"9. Is there a dumber argument in sports than "Chris Paul or Deron Williams"?

I argued before the season, passionately, that Paul was in a different league and earned myself a few death threats from the Salt Lake City area. (You stay classy, Utah.) Check out their 2009 stats through four weeks:

? Paul: 20.5 PPG, 12.2 APG, 2.9 steals, 52.3% FG, 85.6% FT.
? Williams: 7.5 PPG, 8.0 APG, 0.0 steals, 26.7% FG, 66.7% FT.

I mean, that's a landslide! Come on! Can we all agree to stop arguing about this?"

Sure you moron, as soon as you think a little bit.  There is a reason his stats are so low.  Maybe because the guy hasn't really played all that much this year? Hmmmm.  Basketball writer are you?

Wow, that's just bizarre. Do you think he forgot Williams has been injured at all?

[jemagee]

Sometimes he reminds me of a blogger more than a respected journalist with a name in the sports world.

Well he works for ESPN so I'm not sure he's respected, he writes for Page 2 which is their 'op-ed' section - so I never called him a journalist, and after reading a feature about him in ESPN regarding sports and the internets i realized he is a blogger - just a blogger who got picked up by ESPN...just like henry abbot at truehopp (and i have issues with abbot but have had some nice email interactions with him - he's willing to answer emailis rather promptly too)

Speaking of rumors

I'm so tired of Lebron rumors - because the arguments are ridiculous - Tony Kornheiser tells me that to be a 'global icon' - LBJ has to go to New York - ignoring the fact that LBJ is already a global icon and that in a flat like 24/7 media world you can be a fracking icon almost anywhere if you are considered the best at what you do in a world wide popular sport (Mike Wilbon surprisingly made that very point) - And as far as them hyping the nets up - do you think ESPN could catch up on the fact that that whole brooklyn move plan might be falling apart due to problems getting ratners projects actually started

[westkoast]

I should do a weekly installment of 'Bill Simmons is a moron'

"9. Is there a dumber argument in sports than "Chris Paul or Deron Williams"?

I argued before the season, passionately, that Paul was in a different league and earned myself a few death threats from the Salt Lake City area. (You stay classy, Utah.) Check out their 2009 stats through four weeks:

? Paul: 20.5 PPG, 12.2 APG, 2.9 steals, 52.3% FG, 85.6% FT.
? Williams: 7.5 PPG, 8.0 APG, 0.0 steals, 26.7% FG, 66.7% FT.

I mean, that's a landslide! Come on! Can we all agree to stop arguing about this?"

Sure you moron, as soon as you think a little bit.  There is a reason his stats are so low.  Maybe because the guy hasn't really played all that much this year? Hmmmm.  Basketball writer are you?

Wow, that's just bizarre. Do you think he forgot Williams has been injured at all?

I hope so.  Or I at least hope he was trying to attempt a joke.  No way he can be using that as his basis for the 'I told ya so'

[jemagee]

There's always the 3rd possibility

[westkoast]

Sometimes he reminds me of a blogger more than a respected journalist with a name in the sports world.

Well he works for ESPN so I'm not sure he's respected, he writes for Page 2 which is their 'op-ed' section - so I never called him a journalist, and after reading a feature about him in ESPN regarding sports and the internets i realized he is a blogger - just a blogger who got picked up by ESPN...just like henry abbot at truehopp (and i have issues with abbot but have had some nice email interactions with him - he's willing to answer emailis rather promptly too)

Speaking of rumors

I'm so tired of Lebron rumors - because the arguments are ridiculous - Tony Kornheiser tells me that to be a 'global icon' - LBJ has to go to New York - ignoring the fact that LBJ is already a global icon and that in a flat like 24/7 media world you can be a fracking icon almost anywhere if you are considered the best at what you do in a world wide popular sport (Mike Wilbon surprisingly made that very point) - And as far as them hyping the nets up - do you think ESPN could catch up on the fact that that whole brooklyn move plan might be falling apart due to problems getting ratners projects actually started

You know what I chalk all this up too?  Our media being based in New York and those New York writers wanting Lebron to be in the area so they get those cushy writing assignments where they get to talk about how great Lebron is every single night.  Everything I read has been bs thus far.

The guy could play in Toronto and be a global icon.  He plays in Ohio and is already a global icon.  Do these writers forget we all got to see the Olympics this past summer?  Aside from Kobe Bryant there was no one near Lebron in terms of popularity the world over.  Michael Jordan played in Chicago, not LA or NYC, and he became the biggest face of sports for an entire decade.  Literally no one came close to him.  The same is the case with Lebron James now.

While Parker had a point with what he said about the Spurs not getting love because of a small market it does not apply to Lebron James.

[westkoast]

There's always the 3rd possibility

That he's just an idiot?

[jemagee]

There's always the 3rd possibility

That he's just an idiot?

Absolutely

Was Chicago a basketball mecca BEFORE jordan?

[Lurker]

Sometimes he reminds me of a blogger more than a respected journalist with a name in the sports world.

Well he works for ESPN so I'm not sure he's respected, he writes for Page 2 which is their 'op-ed' section - so I never called him a journalist, and after reading a feature about him in ESPN regarding sports and the internets i realized he is a blogger - just a blogger who got picked up by ESPN...just like henry abbot at truehopp (and i have issues with abbot but have had some nice email interactions with him - he's willing to answer emailis rather promptly too)

Speaking of rumors

I'm so tired of Lebron rumors - because the arguments are ridiculous - Tony Kornheiser tells me that to be a 'global icon' - LBJ has to go to New York - ignoring the fact that LBJ is already a global icon and that in a flat like 24/7 media world you can be a fracking icon almost anywhere if you are considered the best at what you do in a world wide popular sport (Mike Wilbon surprisingly made that very point) - And as far as them hyping the nets up - do you think ESPN could catch up on the fact that that whole brooklyn move plan might be falling apart due to problems getting ratners projects actually started

You know what I chalk all this up too?  Our media being based in New York and those New York writers wanting Lebron to be in the area so they get those cushy writing assignments where they get to talk about how great Lebron is every single night.  Everything I read has been bs thus far.

The guy could play in Toronto and be a global icon.  He plays in Ohio and is already a global icon.  Do these writers forget we all got to see the Olympics this past summer?  Aside from Kobe Bryant there was no one near Lebron in terms of popularity the world over.  Michael Jordan played in Chicago, not LA or NYC, and he became the biggest face of sports for an entire decade.  Literally no one came close to him.  The same is the case with Lebron James now.

Sean Elliott basically said this about James during last night's Spurs game.  That we will have to listen to 2 years of LBJ hype because all the sportswriters are based out of New York.

Then during a break I switched to the Orl-Philly game and heard Jalen Rose say that Bosh couldn't go to Cleveland joining James because it wasn't a big enough stage.  That the only stage big enough was NY and both James & Bosh HAD to go there in 2010.   

On the whole Simmons thing...he thinks he is humorous.  Most non-Boston readers think he knows less about basketball than he does his own face.

[jemagee]

I heard the Jalen Rose thing - and I kind of laughed at it.

The 'based out of new york thing' only really applies to sports writers based out of new york i would think wouldn't it?  ESPN is based out of connecticut and i know one of their 'bigger' basketball wonks is based out of hawaii a lot (chad ford) and thorpe is in florida and hollinger i believe is in atlanta.

It's a global world - new york stopped being the center of the universe long ago, not that it ever was.