Bill Simmons is of course a very entertaining & talented writer (though his schtick gets old afterawhile) but (and this is ironic, him being perhaps the most famous sportswriter today) he isn't actually very insightful or perceptive, or many times even thoughtful when it comes to evaluating sports, teams & athletes. He's clearly fanatical about sports, and if you are too, you can't help but get caught up in how he writes about it with his distinctive humor & his talented prose, but the "sportsguy" really doesen't know that much about sports. It's more like a jovial guy with a steep knowledge of 80's pop culture references writing about sports than a sportswriter with a distinctive gimmick: More family guy than John Hollinger.
Whenever I check out the baseball stadhead website baseballprimer.com, the baseball heads always refer to Bill Simmons derisively as "Basketball writer Bill Simmons", the prefix being an indicator that he doesen't know what he's talking about when writing about Baseball & anything said in the following article should be taken with a lump of salt. I think we hoops fans should come up with our own moniker for the man.
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