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[QUOTE="OrangeDW, post: 1385961, member: 2458"]
My Bill Simmons opinions:...

I used to enjoy his "sports guy" articles in the early -mid 2000's.  It got old, and I really don't enjoy most of the grantland writers at all...but his articles used to be a fun read pretty consistently.  And while I think most of the Grantland writers seem like complete dorks, I do appreciate and respect the platform that he gave them.  I like the idea of Grantland better than the execution.

I love 30 for 30.  Some of those are great, and almost all of them are very watchable.  Great idea, and great execution.

I love that he gave Jalen Rose such a platform.  I love the Jalen and Jacoby podcast, and Rose is probably my favorite NBA media guy now.(on a Cuse note, I HATE that Jalen was once trying to talk about how he almost went to Cuse and all Bill wanted to talk about was UNLV and VEGAS!  "What about VEGAS!  You could've lived in VEGAS!...Jalen was much more interested in going to Cuse than UNLV)

I enjoy the BS report overall.

I don't enjoy him on TV at all other than occasionally laughing at how awful he is(like at the NBA draft), and don't really read his articles anymore as they got old.

I respect that he is a huge NBA fan and respect his knowledge, but don't think he knows any more about basketball than me, many on this board, or thousands of others out there.

I did like his book quite a bit(I illegally downloaded it, but I keep it on the ipad and occasionally go back to it, especially when taking a dump and having 5 minutes to kill.  That book is right up my alley).
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