[The Bill Simmons Podcast] Bill Simmons somehow thought Jalen Williams played 14 minutes last night vs the Lakers. Simmons has an MVP vote
this is why i don’t take media-based awards super seriously
even worse when you remember Perkins has a vote as well
He says in the pod that this game was why he didn’t vote for Shai as MVP. I guess man lol
He did? A regular season award? What a joke
He already voted weeks ago
That was the only respectable thing he said. He was referring to his playstyle
But he then voted for Jokic?
playstyle
You know what I’m talking about
You don’t understand man, MVP is the end all, be all.
Perk had a vote?! This could only be worse if one of the coaches was cheating on his wife with one of the voters in public! /s
He must have looked at the box score and saw J.Williams because JWill did play 14 minutes, but not JDub lol
Not the one who was their 2nd best player last year
Yea and if he watched the game he’d know which J.Williams played lol
Even if he didn’t watch. It’s pretty widely known that Jdub is injured atm
He wasn’t even talking about him playing in the game, just noting how he thinks Chet is now their second best player over him.
Idk man, I feel like you guys are overreacting to this a bit. He was quickly going through the box score and mistook the two Jalen/Jaylin Williams without realizing. It was a senior moment, doesn’t mean that he wasn’t paying attention to the game
Holy shit man lmao
^ Might be the wrongest take ever
What take? He saw his name and made a point unrelated to the game. It’s not like he said he was commenting on how he played
This is almost certainly what happened. Caught in real time
this is so bad
Bill’s editor has gotta step in during moments like these
Let him crash. He wants attention/clicks/comments and this gets him more than if he actually watched and talked about the games accurately.
Bill is famously contemptuous of the idea of production staff having any value. Not surprised he attracts editors that are either bad or don’t care
He’s REALLY losing a step
He always been lost, only reason people take him seriously is cause his daddy always bought him court side tickets as a kid
His writing was genuinely 10⁄10 at grantland, and his books are extreme informative and accessible. He hasn’t always been this bad.
I think some of his basketball history has always been dubious. There’s just fewer and fewer people to correct him on the history.
It’s very bias, but he’s open about that.
I still miss grantland and he called us the zombie sonics that entire run.
He’s too young to be having lapses like this.
He’s clearly referring to Jalen, not Jaylin and if he watched how could he possibly not notice that Jalen wasn’t suiting up.
Are you suggesting he’s a nepo baby because he went to basketball games growing up?
But he grew up built up a media empire based on shitposting sprinkled with a little bit of history lessons and was finally able to afford season tix to the clippers. Living the dream
He already openly admitted to not following the rules for rookie of the year. Just take the vote away.
Also biased af, you know he gonna vote for anybody Boston and nobody that is on a rival team to them
His only Boston votes this season were Jaylen Brown as 5th player in All-NBA team and Joe Mazzulla as COTY, neither of which is particularly outrageous
This confirms that these supposed basketball experts are actually just box score watchers lol. No wonder bball discourse is brainrot nowadays
That’s a foul! Or you flopped!
He also said that Shai being on a good team is exactly why he didn’t vote for him for MVP.
The same people who said Denver were the favourites weeks ago cause they had their best supporting cast ever
Yes, “Jaylin Williams” did.
Famously their second best player during the championship run
Really says a lot when the “talking heads” driving narratives about the games arent actually watching the basketball games
Lmao I love how you can see him just reading the box score and putting together what he thinks happened
He has a MVP VOTE Btw
once you watch enough basketball podcasts you realize 99% of them don’t watch the game and just boxscore watch. Even people who say they were at the game.
I’m convinced he watched one, maybe two, Rockets game last year and then based all his takes on that going forward.
He’s too high on percs to give a damn
It’s sad these the people who have voices in the space how psychotic do you have to be to get up here and lie like this wtf lol
Checks the box score, watches 2-3 highlights, launches takes. One of us!
Jon Snow
He knows mfers will watch no matter what the fuck he says. Good analysis is irrelevant.
It’s so funny looking through the comments and seeing who is a regular listener and who just watches clips and hate Simmons because he’s a Boston fan. It’s normal for him to fuck up 2-3 names in a podcast. IMO compared to the majority of the sports talking head people Simmons waaay better.
He says a couple things every pod that make you say wait what he just say and go back and listen again. Think he said when Philly was coming back against Boston that Boston wasn’t the favorite in the series
Simmons bad, upvotes please.
this is an egregious mistake, hop of his cock and use your brain
MVPs are like Oscar’s. Sometimes they go to the best films and sometimes crap like Anora sweep every major category
Yall hating on bill is wild. He watches more ball than any of you lol.
Sure, he made a mistake. But yall are acting like you know better lol. Half of you think Kobe is the GOAT.
Not a mistake he blatantly lying as if he watched the game WTF 😂😂😂😂even if you hate Okc you should def be against when media do bs like this
Okay hot shot. Hope your boss freaks out like this next time you fuck up.
Fire your ass.
They do have guys with identical names , maybe we give this one a pass ?
No he should’ve watched the game if he wanted to comment on it 😂
The point is Bill was talking as if he watched the game.
This proves that he wasn’t watching the game, a common theme around here.
But he also referred to him as the “2nd best player on their title run”. Which implies he was talking about Jdub
He’s got an MVP vote.
Maybe if Dub wasn’t wearing street clothes, he’s been a DNP for over a week. Even then, it’s been 4 years.
Jdub being injured is something that should be common knowledge for a guy like him… he obviously didn’t watch the game and yet is trying to have takeaways from it lol.
Same clown said raptors are frauds basically the entire season only for us to take a team he thought were contenders to 7 while down 2 starters and having the corpse of poetl…
He’s pretty trash and probably doesn’t watch the games , but I somewhat understand this mistake
You might not like his takes but Bill takes his voting seriously and watches a shit load of games. NBA is basically his life
We’re talking about the dude who’s making comments about a game he obviously didn’t watch btw.
There are only 4 series being played right now and he isnt even aware that Dub has been out with a hamstring lmao that’s common knowledge for anyone who is watching at all
Yes he got this totally wrong
Yes Bill Simmons knows more about the NBA than anyone in this sub
Sure buddy, the guy who probably can’t even make a layup knows the most about basketball
does he fuck you? where does this glaze come from 😭