ESPN, Bill Simmons: Interview with Baron Davis

This is the most interesting part.

Baron agreed to terms on July 1, but it wasn't long before local excitement faded. Whispers soon began about reigning star Elton Brand's maybe jumping ship. Since Brand had just spent all of June recruiting him, Baron was flabbergasted. "Elton basically begged me to come," Baron says. "He kept saying, 'We can do great things!' And I was with it."

And Elton's your friend, right?

"Was a friend," Baron says. Past tense. Elton ignored Davis' "What's going on?" texts for three days, finally responding to say his own negotiations had broken down because the Clippers "didn't treat him right." Brand soon landed in Philly. Baron called to wish him well, but they haven't talked since. When the Clippers played Philly in November, the ex-friends didn't even make eye contact. "It is what it is," Baron says.
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I'm also waiting for the day that the Clippers wake up and fire Dunleavy. That guy is destroying that team.
 
MassachusettsKingsFan said:
call me a homer, but Bill Simmons is by far my favorite guy in sports media today ..
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I like the Sports Guy, too. He's never been high on the Kings (Webber in particular, and always finds a way to take shots), but I think he's a good writer. He was in our corner during and after the WCF, being a Celtics fan.
 
Superman said:
I like the Sports Guy, too. He's never been high on the Kings (Webber in particular, and always finds a way to take shots), but I think he's a good writer. He was in our corner during and after the WCF, being a Celtics fan.
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Yea, he's called that the worst officiated game on multiple occasions.

He often uses Beno as the butt of his NBA contract jokes on his podcasts.

"If Beno Udrih can get xxx million dollars, then ... " you get the idea..

He likes Cwebb as a analyst.. On one of his recent podcasts he had a solid 20 min conversation with someone ..maybe marc stein about Cwebbs career and if he was satisfied with the success with no championship ..

The other guy ( marc stein or someone else .. I forget exactly who the guest was ) Also called out Cwebb, saying that as an analyst he shouldnt tell current NBA players what they should do if he didnt do it himself when he played .. interesting argument ..

Anyways, I like him.
 
MassachusettsKingsFan said:
The other guy ( marc stein or someone else .. I forget exactly who the guest was ) Also called out Cwebb, saying that as an analyst he shouldnt tell current NBA players what they should do if he didnt do it himself when he played .. interesting argument ..
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I would love to hear this argument. I think the guy (stein or someone else) is 100 % wrong. If he says that about Webber, then how much more should he say it to someone like Greg Anthony or someone like that.

And if that were the case, then how can Mark Stein, Stephen A. and others even think of giving advice to current players when they have NEVER played in the NBA..
 
The old saying is that you learn more from failure than you do from success. That's why us Kings fans know so much more than Laker fans. :(

Seriously, though, if you're going dismiss good advice from someone on the basis of that person having never won a championship, then you're stubborn and hardheaded, and you deserve the impending failure you're about to be subjected to. Smart people learn from their own mistakes; brilliant people learn from the mistakes of others.
 
kingsnation said:
I would love to hear this argument. I think the guy (stein or someone else) is 100 % wrong. If he says that about Webber, then how much more should he say it to someone like Greg Anthony or someone like that.

And if that were the case, then how can Mark Stein, Stephen A. and others even think of giving advice to current players when they have NEVER played in the NBA..
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I'll try and dig up what podcast it was on .. i'll post it here if I can find it.
 
Yeah... it was Simmons making the argument, not the guest. I thought this quote from Simmons was funny:
He wasn't a guy who clotheslined people when they came down the lane.
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Tell that to John Stockton. ;)
 
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