NBA "No Benjamins Association"

[Gomesfan]

........Well that's what Simmons calls it in his ESPN article.
I found this article a interesting read.
Here's a link...........http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/091223&sportCat=nba

By the way it's pretty long, I nodded off twice reading it(seriously/ lack of sleep)

[Rondo_is_better]

Simmons is kind of dumb. He doesn't know anything about the Celtics, at least. That's what bothers me. He spends 95% of his time talking about the Cavs, Lakers, and pop culture.

[houseonfire09]

Simmons is kind of dumb. He doesn't know anything about the Celtics, at least. That's what bothers me. He spends 95% of his time talking about the Cavs, Lakers, and pop culture.

If that is what ESPN wants to promote, then that is what he will write about.  Remember, Game 1 of the Cavs-Lakers 2010 Finals is on Christmas Day according to them.

[PosImpos]

Simmons is kind of dumb. He doesn't know anything about the Celtics, at least. That's what bothers me. He spends 95% of his time talking about the Cavs, Lakers, and pop culture.

If that is what ESPN wants to promote, then that is what he will write about.  Remember, Game 1 of the Cavs-Lakers 2010 Finals is on Christmas Day according to them.

To be fair, most of the experts on ESPN.com seem to have acknowledged that the Cavs look like the third or fourth best team in the East so far this season.  Indeed, in that particular article Bill Simmons throws around the idea of trading Shaq as if he's already concluded the experiment hasn't worked out (in my opinion that's a safe assumption).

Right now the consensus seems to be that it will take a big trade acquisition (e.g. Antawn Jamison) for the Cavs to make it to the Finals this year.  Unless both the C's and the Magic have some serious injury problems.

[makaveli]

I saw LeBron against Sac town the other day, and it was scary the way he plays against average-below average defenses.

[Brickowski]

Right now Atlanta is better than either Cleveland or Orlando.