Bill Simmons Is Terrifying Laker Fans
Bandwagon L.A. —
From Simmons' mail bag today: If I'm a Lakers fan, I'm terrified by three things right now: 1. Bynum's knee injury happened on January 13th and the Lakers claimed he would return within two months. Um, it's March 5th. Where is he? Here's the last public quote we've heard from him, courtesy of an L.A. Times story on February 29th: "If I'm able to run in the pool with no pain, then we'll start building my leg up more and more. I'm making progress and I'm excited to actually run in the pool, but I'm ...
Bill Simmons, Thaddeus Fan
Depressed Fan —
Here's a quick excerpt from Bill Simmons' latest 30,000-word pseudo mailbag over on ESPN. I believe this will eventually end up being considered a good draft
because of three potential franchise guys (the top-three ... and, yes,
Horford is that good), two more potential All-Stars (Conley and,
surprisingly, Thaddeus Young) and a slew of potential starters and
quality role players. We will see. I'm just excited that we have a guy
named "Thaddeus" in the NBA who might be really good. This follows closely on the heels of John Hollinger's praise of ...
The Rockets are exciting
The Victoria Times —
Currently on ESPN's front page , they have a story about how the Houston Rockets are going on a tear. More importantly to me, that's former ...
Thad and Billy
Philadelphia 76ers Fan Blog —
... March 06, 2008 8:30AM ESPN.com's Sports Guy always seems to enjoy himself. In his most recent column he has some fun at former Sixer General Manager Billy King's expense, and also gives props to Thaddeus Young. For those that care about this type of stuff, ...
And the beat goes on!
The Dream Shake —
... The Sports Guy even took time out of his Celtics/Patriots/Red Sox schedule to notice that Carl Landry is seriously kicking ass all over the NBA. Which is awesome and yet... we're the ones who started the bandwagon. Simmons can't just take over. And all this time I thought Simmons was too busy fluffing Tom Brady, KG and David Ortiz to ever pay attention to the Rockets. I guess no one is able to ignore 16 game winning streaks. ...
Fiddlin' and Diddlin' - Daily Links 3/7
LOY's PLACE a celtics green blog —
... Place No rest for the front runners NBA.com Don't count out Garnett Russell and Kevin Garnett: Celtic Icons Say Hello FL's Take: This is an incredible interview between the past and present of the Celtics. I love that Russell feels that KG can bring 2-3 championships to Boston. Great stuff!!! Bulls Celtics preview ESPN Writer rountable: How will things shake out in the East? The horror, the horror: Pistons-Spurs II looming? Hoopsworld ...
Finding Fernandez
Blazers Blog —
... into an international basketball star. Playing alongside Blazers point guard Sergio Rodriguez, Fernandez helped the Spanish national team win a world title two years ago, and he has won numerous international competition MVP awards, including the 2006 FIBA Eurocup final MVP and the 2004 Spanish Cup final MVP. In a mailbag session last week, ESPN's own Sports Guy Bill Simmons noted that if the 2007 draft were redone today, Fernandez would go much higher than his actual No. 24 pick, slotting him at No. 8. Pritchard echoed that sentiment in Freeman's article: "Rudy's been on ...
Back to the Blog
Bob's Blog - Live from Lewisville —
... streak and avenge a tough loss to the same Colorado team Saturday in Denver. Dallas gave up a 1-0 third-period lead in that game and was pushed around physically. "We talked in our meeting about how we needed to respond and what we needed to do as a team," said captain Brenden Morrow, who played on the line with Modano and Richards. "And we went out and came together as a team and did what we needed to do." I am sure everyone saw this, but here is Bill Simmons email response on the Mavs in the post-trade era … Q: (Dead ...
The Making of This Charlotte Bobcats Fan
Rufus on Fire —
... and only hitting on 22% of his trey attempts. He was a Dominic McGuire type without the intriguing length and sheer athleticism. He was Luke Walton without the passing and a little more rebounding.
But his shortcomings didn't matter because he was ours. I felt as if no one else knew how good he was and that everyone else had written off the ACC Player of the Year as an undersized four who would be out of his element in the NBA. (Of course, The Sports Guy had sniffed out Dudley as a mid-late round sleeper early on.)
Emeka and Gerald were the bigger ...
