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Simmons: 'Nobody Is Beating the Lakers'
sports.aol.com - 5/31/2008
Simmons: 'Nobody Is Beating the Lakers'
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ESPN.com's Bill Simmons , the artist formerly known as the Boston Sports Guy, sounds less than optimistic regarding his Celtics' chances against Los Angeles in the Finals. In a Friday column (published just after the Lakers iced the Spurs, but before Boston clinched on the road), Simmons summed up his prediction (via BallHype ): Nobody is beating the Lakers this season. Not Boston, not ...

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Deadspin:  Bill Simmons Puts On His Defeatist Hat [It Begins]

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Bill Simmons Puts On His Defeatist Hat [It Begins]
Deadspin — ... ' ramblings as a representative of their thoughts as a whole. And that's even when he thinks Boston teams are doing well. Some of them are taking added umbrage with Simmons' most recent column, which argued the Celtics don't have much of a shot at beating the Lakers in the ...

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