[Bill Simmons Pod] “Bam 83 points … I love when the guys go for it … guess what Washington … fucking stop the guy, don’t whine about it”
bill simmons is weirdly respectful of the heat while absolutely hating us and hoping for our downfall
which i kind of fk with
Bill will always respect the heat for how they denied the Celtics two shots at the finals even if they lost those finals
i think part of him is absolutely giddy that his zombie heat take came to fruition out of nowhere lol
Bill has also been giving your team props for the last three weeks I believe
Those have been the only three weeks where he couldve done it without getting clowned tbh
no surprise, post asb spo is a beast
Im sure the heat wouldnt have been such underdogs or made the finals if he didnt use 70% of the season to experiment on lineups, but even while it hurts the seeding its way better for the team in the playoffs, they’re ready for anything.
Post ASB is when Spo usually stops with the OCD levels of lineup tinkering lol, though Norm/Herro absences may actually help since our bench guys have had so much play time lately
I think it’s planned load management for that exact reason.
No matter how the Heat are doing he always seems to have some trepidation about them, which I find hilarious. Not saying he’s wrong, it’s just amusing that regardless of their seed/roster he never wants the Celtics to face them; he has some version of basketball PTSD from all the battles over the years.
I’m pretty sure he was at game 6 in 2012 when Lebron went off. It’s been rough for the Celtics vs Miami since then.
Of course, as he should be. That was an amazing prediction.
His Game 6 in Boston article was a masterpiece.
I remember when Bill would write columns. Those were the days.
His running diary of the Celtics 2008 game 6 Finals victory over the Lakers is how I discovered Simmons. I still go back and read it on occasion for the memories.
grant land was just fantastic reading
I think that was even pre-Grantland days. But yeah- Grantland was the shit.
Been like 4 shots at the finals if you go back to the Big 3 days
I was more talking the jays but yeah hey have been a pain for like close to 20 years now
Its because you just WILL NOT DIE.
I feel the same way. I hate the heat deeply, but you gotta respect the way they play hard and find overlooked talent.
Every other East rival in the Js era, we’ve beaten them and watched them wither or have to rebuild. Not the Heat. They dont die.
i just remember vividly b4 the crazy 8th seed run how so many celtics flairs going “watch out for the heat they might be dangerous” and all the heat flairs going “fk we suck so much, we have no chance against the bucks”
its so funny how celtics and bucks fans had more faith in our team than we did
For sure. I don’t know if anyone else feels this way, but I feel like it’s part of the identity of Celtics fandom to show respect to other teams, even (especially?) when they beat us.
Not just the Heat, but we’ve also been vocal proponents of the Hali Pacers before many fans understood how good they would become last year. A lot of us were also big on the Magic even like 3 years ago (I’m loving that Paolo has come out of the ASB playing better!).
The only teams we truly hate on are the Lakers and “rivals” that never live up to that title like the Sixers and Knicks (though obviously the Knicks flipped that on its head last year).
I was really impressed with one of your official podcasters who ran a segment after we beat yall. It was a post game breakdown and he started it by saying we were the flat-out better team on the court that night, why, and why teams don’t want to see us in the playoffs.
You guys are clearly the better team on the season, but I liked that he didn’t sugarcoat it or make excuses and gave us full props.
I feel like Celtics fans often have the most reasonable takes about the Sixers / respect for Embiid.
He’s got the single greatest quote about an NBA team about the heat, to the tune of:
“Everyone writes them off during the regular season, but every year in the post season, there they are, Jimmy and Spo and Bam, like some kind of monster from a horror movie - you know how it ends, you know you’ll probably survive, but you’re gonna be covered in blood standing in the ruins of your burned down house by the end of it.”
(Also props to Celtics fans for recognizing game - y’all were the ones yelling at people for not taking the Pacers seriously too)
Rivalries also just make everything more fun woth interconferance rivalries tending to be better since you can match up for more often and ever since lebron left the east Heat vs. Celtics is like the only true rivalry that has existed.
Knicks vs Pacers was looking like a fun one so I hope that comes back too but unless one of them wins the finals / they make multiple appearances its gonna be hard to top the Celtics and Heat.
See this is why the Heat are fun.
I respect Indiana, when your superstar goes down you’re going to be shit no matter what. But fuck the Sixers and the Process.
But the Heat? they don’t lay down.
Heat have had like 4 moments where any other team would have just given up and rebuilt. And with how theyre looking now I can see them making the second round competitive if theyre healthy. The fact cavs/heat might be the 4⁄5 series after being 1⁄8 (with heating being 10 and 2 playin wins) is crazy
Bill Simmons has some wild takes and predictions, but he clearly still loves basketball, in a sport where a lot of the talking heads get bored and stop watching, we can trust that Bill was be attending random games between two middling teams and flipping through league pass to find the best games on any given night. If he misses a great game, he catches the replay later.
After all that, he still looks for and digests analysis from his colleagues, truly in it for the love of the game
When you have Clippers season tickets you know at least one of the teams will be middling.
He’s consistent about wanting players to go for records/rare achievements if it’s reasonable. Not long before Kobe’s 81 pt game Bill was disappointed Kobe sat in a blowout win when he was at 60 pts or so.
And Bill has some feelings about the Lakers as well!
He’s not the only one. There’s some sports teams like that, the Miami Heat, the Pittsburg’s Steelers, the Montreal Canadiens, etc. where a lot of people are like “Fuck these guys. I respect them, but I hate them and hope they fail.” It might be less the case since the Big Ben saga but at least before that, that’s how NFL fans felt about the Steelers.
I grew up a Yankee/Jet fan and have read and listened to him for as long as I can remember. It’s weird but for me I agree with mostly all of his takes. And when he’s unfair it’s just sports hate which I equally have for Boston, Philly teams among others.
ZOMBIE HEAT
nobody loves hatewatching the heat more than bill and mike schur
As a Spurs fan, I 100% agree with this sentiment. The Lakers on the other hand, just the hate
You know. Maybe this is the wakeup call the NBA needs to combat tanking. Either play the game right or potentially have someone attempt to break Wilt’s scoring record😄
i mean y not? if a guy has a chance to break it then y not? ppl acted like bam getting 83 was gonna break the league but if it causes other players that r on heaters to actually go for it then is that not better?
we get more chances to potentially watch incredible games
He gave the heat one of their best nicknames
Zombie heat
He’s been afraid of the Zombie Heat for years. That Reverse sweep series scarred him for life
Say what you want about Simmons, but he is completely spot on here
Before I started occasionally listening to Simmons, I assumed he was just another hot take artist based on all the comments here. But he’s just a guy talking about basketball with a celtics-homer lens. Usually none of his takes are that crazy with the full context around the quote, and he admits when he’s being outlandish. Entertaining when he’s got another good basketball guy on with him
Bill also has an AMAZING eye for talent. He’s the one that hired Zach Lowe, Bill Barnwell, Kirk Goldsberry, Katie Baker, Andy Greenwald… and a bunch of others.
He’s definitely a Boston homer, but absolutely no one can deny this man has an eye for talent.
I listen to his pod all the time. Do I really vibe with a lot of his takes. Not really. But his ability to get insightful people on his pod and pull conversation on him is truly second to none. He has people like Mac kellerman and Nick wright on his show and makes them not spew garbage takes. It’s phenomenal.
I wont watch a second of ESPN garbage but if Nick Wright is on Bill’s pod thats a must listen episode.
I genuinely love Russillo and Bill together.
I just hate when they tangent off to the ‘08 Celtics every five or so pod’s and it takes me 4-5 minutes to realise that Bill is talking about Kevin Garnett like he’s the second coming.
I also don’t like how much he’s attempted to diminish LeBron although it seems as if he’s off that train right now.
Rip grantland
I sincerely think Jonathan Tjarks might have been the best of all. I know it’s easy to say that now but I think a lot of people already felt that way long before any of us knew about his illness or read his final essay.
He’s not a hot take artist but he does love to talk off the cuff. He doesn’t pretend to be some super impartial reporter either. He’s a commentator and if you accept him for what he is, it’s about right
It’s insane how quickly you realize most of reddit is wrong/misinformed about almost everything when you actually get personal experience with those things lol.
He’s really a student of the game and knows a ton about the NBA. He wrote a freaking 500 page book about it.
He carried sports writing for 10+ years.
I only know Bill Simmons from a handful of episodes of his movie podcast ‘Rewatchables’ due to the guest(s) he had on for them. So I’m even more in the dark on why everyone hates this guy. Unless people just don’t know how insular Boston/eastern Mass. people are like.
He’s super entertaining with mildly hot takes on occasion and brings a great historical lens to NBA and NFL
He knows more about basketball than pretty much anybody. Meanwhile, he is still just a fan.
he’s just a guy talking about basketball with a celtics-homer lens
Hilariously, that’s how he got footing in the business. He was a writer that was just writing from the perspective of a Boston sports fan, he knows it, you know it, and it made him super relatable. His articles were very entertaining. There’s always a knee-jerk reaction on this sub when he says something they don’t agree with (typical /r/nba circlejerk) but Bill is genuinely fantastic; great interviewer too.
Bill is also THE guy when it comes to basketball history. He knows his stuff and he fucking loves basketball.
Reminds me of that meme… Heartbreaking, the worst person you know just made a great point.
For the record I don’t think he’s the worst
Edit typo
For the record I don’t think I he’s the worst
I’m glad you threw that in there because there’s no one that believes in the Heat more than Bill Simmons lmao. Y’all could be 15-35 and he’d still be worried.
yea I can’t hate on bill without him the term Zombie Heat doesn’t exist
They could get contracted from the league, and he’d search through league pass to see if their spirit was transferred.
Him and Mike Schur (from the Office) who is a partner in Meadowlark Media are always higher on the Heat than the Dan Lebatard Show is and that’s always funny to me.
i personally cant even watch the dan lebatard show, they fluctuate from hating our own players to wild heat biased delusion. i cant handle it
Yeah I used to be a big fan and they’re the reason I’m a Heat fan. Didn’t watch NBA growing up but once I started to get into it, my brother and I knew the most about the Heat from the show so we became fans. Haven’t listened to the show in a while since Stu/Billy left. Dan just doesn’t seem the same these days from when I have listened.
Bill hates us a Celtics fan and loves us as a basketball sicko. Two things can be true at once.
To be fair to Bill though, he’s never wrong when he senses we’re about to pop off.
Bill Simmons is a cornball but I’ll always like him because he actually cares about the sport and follows the players. He’s a hot take artist because he’s an entertainer but he genuinely shows a ton of a love to a lot of players and keeps track of what’s actually happening in the sport. Dude watches like every game.
He’s like 100x more in the know than most of these top analysts who can’t name anyone outside of the starting 2-3 guys on a few of the top teams and just complain about the product nonstop (Looking at you Barkley)
Hot take artist who also wrote a 700 page book on basketball…. Idk why he gets hate. He just talks about what he thinks/sees and that’s obviously biased like the rest of us.
Because people clip a 10 second bit and then post it online with a misleading caption. He’s also a Boston homer and people can’t accept that. Like how dare you be a fan of a team and give commentary on the game.
The people who watch the show 3 times a week cannot stop complaining that Bill Simmons, who has been going to Celtics games since he was a child, wants to talk about the Celtics on the podcast. Spotify’s new comment section is full of the dumbest people alive complaining about this.
His major issue is when he veers outside of his realm of expertise of the NBA and then his takes are really bad because his knowledge base isn’t there.
Honestly even though it’s a bit, his best takes are the “body language doctor” takes. It’s actually crazy how many times those vibes takes are actually meaningful. It’s when he tries to apply advanced metrics inconsistently that his takes break down.
Conspiracy Bill is a top 3 bit.
Hearing him talk about football is really frustrating sometimes. I still listen Monday mornings during the season but my God does he have no idea what he’s talking about sometimes. So often he’ll say a player played badly in a loss when they were one of the only ones to show up.
Yeah you cant listen to the Bill and Sal pods for accurate analysis. Typically I go with Robert Mays for that. The Bill and Sal pods are purely entertainment for me. I can laugh at some of Bills takes and Sal is usually good for a couple one liners that go over Bill’s head about 50% of the time.
He’s the most prisoner-of-the-moment football fan I think I’ve ever seen.
A lot of the shit he throws out is clearly not serious and the tone disappears when it gets translated into text.
I also like how often he contextualizes with basketball history.
He’s basically just a smart fan. Like a clear level below the average journalist in hoop knowledge but if he were in your friend group he’d be the basketball sage pretty much lmao
He’s entertaining, good at speaking, and genuinely loves the sport. Thats all there is to it really.
For a heat fan, thats not the worst thing to say about him lol. Its all in good faith about a deeply respected rivalry between the two teams/fanbases.
He is also consistent about it. I remember him wishing Carmelo had stayed in longer when he scored 62 just to see how far he could go.
Say what you want about Simmons, but Grantland was great.
He’s right on this one.
Bravo to Bam.
83 pts = Bam’s achievement
43 FTs = the Wizards’ achievement
Simmons is right. I stand with Bam
Do people think that Kobe and Wilt weren’t also just jacking up shots every possession in their record games?
This is what I don’t get, there is no way to get this many points ethically
“Ethical” these days means no FTs, even if they were busy hacking at you like the Wizards were doing Bam lol.
Idk if I agree with this tbh. Im a big ethical hoops truther but getting a shit ton of free throws every once in a while is fine by me. Doing it nightly is when it becomes an issue.
I’m right there with you but the fact of the matter is that some guys really do get fouled quite a bit. I don’t like rewarding offensive players who initiate contact with a foul, much rather it just be a no call since there’s a skill to that (Kyrie plays through contact beautifully imo). But for every bad call a guy like SGA gets, there’s probably a few more that follow that are reasonable calls.
Ultimately, it’s more of an officiating issue than the players imo.
Lemme preface this with I think the ‘ethical’ discussion around Bam is nonsense, 83 fucking points is remarkable irregardless of how it was obtained. But playing devils advocate, I’d say Luka’s 73 fits the definition of what ppl would describe as ‘ethical’
they need to stop using “ethical” cuz it implies that others were fraudulent
luka had the cleanest and most necessary 70+ pt game for sure
I’m okay using “unethical” with the caveat that it doesn’t really matter whether it was “ethical” or not. I’ve always known Wilt’s 100 were unethical and Kobe’s 81 were as well.
There are no ethical buckets under heliocentrism
they genuinely dont know that kobe’s last 7 pts came off fts and when the raptors had already subbed out their starters
the only reason his game looked better at the end was cuz they werent hard doubling him to get the ball out of his hands and leaving other dudes open until after his 81st point
You’re full of it lol. The starters were subbed out with 2 minutes left in the game. Those last 7 points were Kobe being intentionally hacked on a layup, getting slapped on the arm on a three directly next to the ref, and a player somehow both hip checking him and slipping their foot under his. It was about as non-controversial as possible
I get you have to defend your guy, but don’t start weird new rumors.
im not saying it was controversial. im saying if ur mad at bam for staying in the game in a clearly won game to chase 81 then u should be mad at kobe doing the same thing
if ur mad the heat purposely fouled to get bam more possessions then u should put the same asterisks on wilts which by all accounts they did it way more than the twice we did
people should actually watch both games before they comment on this lol.
so many people here watched NEITHER game but are full of opinions.
Lets be real, Bam did an incredible accomplishment. But Kobes 81 was more a reflection of the player, Bam was more a reflection on the wizards
Did you watch Kobe’s game? The Lakers werw down by damn near 20 in the third until Kobe went nuclear. While I respect Bam taking second place, lets not just use revisionist history to try and claim Kobe’s was purely a shot fest
Simmon’s point was he outscored the Mav’s during 3 quarters and had 61 during 3 by himself. He wanted him to go for the record.
A couple weeks later, there was the 81 game. They were down for majority so he tried into the 4th. Phil wanted to pull him until he got ribbed by Winter should you let him get 70?
there’s an episode of PTFO which talks about how that’s exactly what Wilt did
Asking Washington to actually get a stop might be asking a bit too much
Is it illegal defense to have 5 guys on guy
What would a burger do on defense
Box & 1 is legal. But 5 players holding hands surrounding an opponent? Some lottery team should test it out
some lottery team should test it out
Say less
“Personal foul, they were giving him the business.”
I think that’s called the gangbang defense
Where the Piper Perri meme?
Is Washington the ones whining about it?
trae young and the coach did kind of
Exactly. We’re literally tanking. Everyone else is way more mad at us than we are at Bam or ourselves.
Very classy taking it on the chin.
Yeah the criticism should be aimed at everyone actually whining to go off about all tanking and Adam silver doing nothing about it.
thank you bruh, why is the league shitting on us for something we aren’t even complaining about
the fans that care are mad at the team for letting it happen, not Miami
Nah it’s Lakers/Kobe fans
Mostly just Kobe fans, they are the same ones who hated it when we got LeBron
nah I’ve seen Celtics fans trash Bam for this game on this sub a plenty
I thought he was saying whine at Washington about it
I feel like we’re the only people not whining about it.
It’s most NBA fans, the vast majority of Lakers fans, and all Kobe fans.
More people are upset about Bam’s 83 points than 6 teams in the league actively trying lose every night lmao
Yup they should be more upset about cap circumvention by the Clippers and the literal game fixing and gambling
On some level, I think people are infuriated because this makes them feel silly for taking basketball too seriously.
It’s the same underlying issue of the league not getting the incentives correct. Fouls don’t cost teams enough, IMO — intentionally fouling shouldn’t gain you an advantage. The biggest problem for this is making the end game take forever, but it also leads to situations like this where going all out to score as many points as possible means the other team is willing to foul a lot and even you as a team have an incentive to foul when you lose the ball so there’s more time on the clock when you get it back.
And tanking is the same deal, essentially — they need to figure out a way to keep the playing field level without outright rewarding bad behavior.
The reason for why the NBA have all these unwritten rules around how you’re not supposed to try your hardest if you’re playing against bad opponents and how people think it’s acceptable to intentionally lose games is a result of how the league is structured.
In other sports, like European football, goal difference actually matters. NBA not having draws or point differential mattering means there’s no incentive for trying as hard as possible from the first to the last minute. There’s also no actual consequences for losing intentionally, instead you get rewarded for it.
Just look at the NBA cup games, where point differential actually matters, and how different the last minutes of the games are.
You know it’s a bad time for basketball discourse when Bill Simmons has a good take and is not saying stupid shit like a lot of people
The thing about Bill is that unlike a lot of NBA “fans” he actually likes the game of basketball, which is refreshing.
Simmons actually has a lot of good takes. I’ll stand by it
I hear this often about Bill
I get that he’s a big Celtics homer but beyond that are his takes even consistently bad?
No. Simmons is biased but admits it, and he genuinely loves basketball more than I love my dog. The guy lives and breathes the NBA and makes a career out of talking about it not in the clickbait-sound-bite Stephen A way, but in the nerdiest way possible. Simmons, for example, loves ranking players. I truly believe he does everything in his power to get his lists right. He considers it sacred.
Yeah if you see a hot-take “aggregated” from Bill, usually the context of the full conversation makes it pretty reasonable.
His takes are usually “pretty reasonable take from your Celtics fan friend at the bar”
People hold him to the standard of deep sports reporter and Xs and Os expert, which he definitely isn’t. He’s just a fan who’s watched a lot of basketball
No they’re not, it’s mostly just a complaint from people no don’t really listen to the pod, they say so it makes them think they have better basketball knowledge than Bill.
His “bad” takes aren’t even that egregious and the ones that do lean that way are said in a joking way imo.
Just his football takes
Simmons is more than just a “content creator”. The guy has shaped the NBA discourse in the last 2 decades. He brought some incredible talent into the spotlight and he clearly loves the game. He’s a bit goofy sometimes and of course, he’s a huge Celtics homer. But his enthusiasm is palpable. He doesn’t fake it and he’s way past the point of giving a fuck about engagement and clout. He’s at a point in his career where he can say whatever he wants and he’s got there on merit. People nowadays only know podcaster Bill, but the guy used to be an elite writer.
If you don’t take him too seriously, he’s enjoyable to listen to. Especially when Zach Lowe is on the show.
if washington really wanted to stop it they should have just left bam’s teammates wide open under the rim and let them score. clearly they aren’t disciplined enough to avoid fouling bam when he comes barreling in through triple teams. in other words even though they were double/triple teaming bam they were still playing defense too honest for him to get his teammates involved.
What if Bam passed to them and also broke the assist record, what if they were trying to stop that
What if Bam breaks every single game NBA record
I am ok with this
Scottie Skiles stans would’ve had their moment.
30 assists is the record. I’m sure by assist 25, the Wizards would put a little resistance. But probably not enough to stop it from happening.
wat if they started leaving skiles wide open and face guarding everyone else, y didnt they do that to preserve the record??? so disrespectful
“Damn if only Bam Adebayo broke the assist record instead of Kobe’s we would’ve gotten the green light to start the invasion”
-some aliens
The sad reality is that their defense is so bad that they literally couldn’t stop Bam on a heater, like they went back to the huddle said “ok we gotta stop him so he doesn’t turn this into a spectacle” and then proceeded to triple team him yet still repeatedly also foul him. Sure Spoelstra made it hard with the fouls to reset possessions in the 4th but it still stands that even when trying their absolute hardest they literally could not stop him.
Suddenly as a non-wizards fan the AD trade makes a lot more sense.
if washington really wanted to stop it they should have just left bam’s teammates wide open under the rim and let them score
which they did do for the last 4 pts and y we did the “unethical” stuff
but they also started normal doubling when bam got 70 and he passed it around and got 3 assists. then for some reason the wizards let bam get loose for a couple and 1s which actually made the record possible and thats when shit hit the fan. the double wasnt working to stop bam so they resorted to triple teaming and fouling other players which is perfectly fine but thats also wat made it ugly
They did that for a quarter. No one on the Heat (well to be frank the end of bench Heat) wanted to shoot.
I mean he’s right. If you don’t want a guy to drop that many points, just play better defense.
People suddenly acting like Wilt didn’t have 30+ free throws in his 100 game.
Washington isn’t whining about it. Lakers/Kobe fans are the ones whining about it.
Watching the Lakers announcers & fans reactions gives me just as much joy as the Celtics being good this season
Fuckin spot on, Bill.
I’m Bam Margera and this is play defense
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#1 Bam-Bam from the Flintstones. You get two Bams for the price of one.
Absolutely spot-on
Is washington whining about it? Or everyone else.
Some of the shenanigans that happen in March and April with the tanking teams are a genuine embarrassment to the game. People here who follow the league closely know all the jokes about all the fake things and BS you’ll see this time of year and for American hoop heads like myself, the next three weeks are when college has the spotlight, but I cannot imagine trying to understand this nonsense as a casual fan, lol.
The Wizards are not my team, but I live up the road. I don’t begrudge them doing a true rebuild. It’s probably smarter than going 35-47 with Beal as your best player. However, this just HAS to be the nadir of this thing. You’re the butt of every joke in the sport and your fans have gone from indifferent to ashamed. They cannot have another season where they are blatantly not trying to complete and willing to accept the absolute bottom of the barrel in terms of NBA product. It’s not a team with great support anyway, and you’re leaving your diehards out to dry with this garbage.
Die hard wizards fans should want them to lose every game the rest of the season.
I understand that. Diehard fans also pay to buy season tickets and watch this team in person multiple times a month. I know several of them. There are ways to rebuild without making a mockery of the sport and fools out of those who pay to watch it.
Can confirm
The expectation, even before Silver talked about changing tanking rules, was that this was the last season of this for the Wiz regardless. They’re going as hard on tanking as they are because you own their pick if it’s outside the top 8, and the lottery balls are frequently unkind to the Wizards.
Next year, they expect to have three top 10 picks in their core rotation (Sarr, Tre, and hopefully a top 5 pick this year), former top picks and All-Stars in Trae and AD, and great developmental pieces in Kyshaun George, Bilal, Riley, and Champagnie. If they’re still a sub 30 win team at that point, a lot of things have gone wrong.
This is a great take. Spot on.
Yeah, he’s right.
Legler brought up a great point on this pod too when it comes to the “backlash” takes on Bam.
Is there really ever going to be a way for a player to score 80+ points in a way that comes naturally in a game that stays close?
At a certain point you almost have to start gunning for it, because the opponent is going to double you and get the ball out of your hands.
Yeah I don’t get the hate. If Luka had Bam’s conditioning he could easily get 100.
I doubt it, Bam is genuinely underrated, if Kobe tried his best and could only get 81 what makes you think luka could
I meant this as a compliment to Bam. I’ve seen a bunch of 30 point Luka first quarters but he would slow down as the game went on. Ie his 73 point game. I also think Kobe could get to 100 with today’s high 3 point volume and foul baiting, which I don’t blame the players for taking advantage of.
And it’s not just the 3PA increase, the pace is also way higher. We’re talking an increase of 10 FGAs and 17 PPG. I think Luka’s 73 is the most impressive scoring output, but I might have Kobe’s second. Definitely above Bam’s, not sure about Kobe vs Wilt.
Lol It was a different era in kobe’s case w much less scoring and pace…and no spread offense
Washington isn’t whining much as far as I can tell.
Should see their pick fall out of the top 5 for that performance alone.
Thank you Washington!
Signed,
Raptors Fans Everywhere
the wizards sucks so bad tho
Perhaps we should’ve gone the cheating route instead!
cool story bro that’s why everyone’s dropping 80s on the wizards
Wait what? I don’t think Wizards fans are whining about it
Wizards defense is just allergic to stopping anyone lol. They’re giving up like 12-13% more rebounds and assists than league average. 83 points isn’t even that surprising against them.
This is my take. Washington should have tried to actually stop the one good player why was playing that night. He goes for 50 you would think they would try a little harder to double him or deny him the ball
Thank you…Bill Simmons?!?!
bill simmons is the only nba reporter who actually likes basketball
Doesn’t matter. We all saw what happened in the 4th quarter.
What? What happened in the fourth? They passed bam the ball so he could score more? They fouled twice to get the ball back at the end?
Like who gives a fuck.
Fuck me. What an absolute waste of time all this is. Good for Bam. Washington isn’t complaining. The media is cancer especially with NBA discourse and Bill Simmons is an absolute dinosaur at this point.
The Wizarda did actually try to stop him when has closing in 80, it’s just Spo countered that and made sure his guy got to 83.
I have so many old head guys at work who “hate the NBA” for years and “don’t watch” but they have all of these opinions about Bam scoring 83.
Tbh they kind of did stop him his shooting % was so ass that nobody actually thinks Bam was making good plays the deeper into the game they got lol. Its just that the Wizards were so dogshit they were getting stunted on anyways by a team intentionally making bad plays to put more stats on the sheet. The answer should’ve been to just actually play like an average basketball team and make the heat work for it instead they got bent over and lost to a team that wasn’t even trying to play their best. It is what it is but he shot under 40% in the second, third and fourth quarter. The heat were playing absolutely awful basketball in those quarters lol and the wizards were just getting ass blasted anyways
Any decent team would absolutely love for the Heat to play that way against them because Bam would get 80 and they’d lose the game by 40
Simmons is right on this one, the Wizards had 48 minutes to figure out how to stop Bam and they couldn’t do it, complaining about the free throws after the fact doesn’t change the fact that he had 62 through three quarters mostly on field goals, the fourth quarter discourse is a distraction.
Funny enough, the one whining the most ain’t the Wizards or their fans. Granted, if I see a Wiz fan whining about it then that is fine after that embarrassment of their team but you know whos fan boy that whining the most lmaooo. They be so mad.
He’s happy because he passed a Laker, that is it, that is all
People are mad at Bam for scoring 83 but have forgotten KD ruined the fkn league for 2 years joining the warriors LMAOOOOOOOOO
Its not Washington its stupid Kobe marks.
I don’t think anyone in Washington was whining about it.
“That’s not like Spo”
Again, no one has a problem with Bam going for it. That’s not the issue. Only stupid people keep arguing against things no one said.
Wait, they took the podcast off Youtube for some Netflix deal, but still do the Shorts as marketing?
lol
This is so not true and people know it. It completely depends on who is going for it. The kind of fuckery the Heat did to help Bam pass Kobe, not everyone would be accepted. I guarantee you if SGA was doing that late in the 4th of a blowout it would be a completely different tune. God help us all if the Sixers and Embiid were doing it.
I can’t believe the refs have somehow escaped criticism. Why the hell are we so focused on bam, spo, the wizards, whatever.
The refs are the issue. How is nobody talking about them giving one player 43 damn free throws when the amount of contact was NOT out of the ordinary in the slightest? If refs called every player like that, we’d have 40 FT nights every single night.
Mind-boggling that nobody wants to talk about that