Simmons vs. Rivers

At what point does ESPN say "Enough is enough" with this Bill Simmons vs. Doc Rivers feud? It was cute on Thursday night but the ongoing spat can't be a good look for anybody involved, even ESPN's golden boy.

 

At what point? At the point people stop taking about it and starting message board threads and tuning in to see who says what next.

 

Doc is the one who keeps mentioning it. Doc seems to protest just a touch too much on this one. He brought it up on at least one, if not two, radio interviews in Boston this afternoon.

He needs to lay low for a while and stop jumping out in front of every mic trying to explain himself.

 

Maybe it's great timing for Doc to bash Simmons now if he really hates the guy.

Simmons does not come across well on TV, and he is being seen by many people who have never heard of him.

So Doc is bashing him when he is particularly vulnerable. Not that it will amount to a hill of beans.

 

If Doc Rivers coaches any other team, his leaving doesn't even get mentioned by Simmons.

 

Simmons is responding to Doc, not the other way around.

 

I'm talking the initial dust-up that led to Doc saying what he said.

 

David khan, Elgin Baylor and a host of others would like a word.

 

If you want to include GMs, I'm right there with you.

 

That answer is a little flippant. Simmons is suddenly calling Rivers by his birth name on Twitter and cursing. I'd say it's getting about time.

Simmons is acting, in this moment, at a standard somewhere below professional. Not that I'm that surprised. He's never had hedge and pull punches because he's never been a real beat writer.

 

Simmons was unmasked on NBA pregame show. He is trying to gain back to credibility. He's a lightweight
fratboy that can't run with the big dogs.

 

Here we go again with the "you're not a beat writer, you shouldn't talk about it." Interesting to me is how people tend to excoriate Simmons for starting as/being a fanboi but most of the older journalists, wherever they are, are given a pass or their word is passed off as knowledge when spouting out opinions or comments. If Bob Ryan or Dan Shaughnessy wrote Doc quit, they'd be praised for telling the truth. Why is that?