What are you talking about? It's the other guy who put down Portland, not Bill Simmons. At the worst, it could just be a ploy to get them to read their new website. Besides, it's an NBA lockout and Blazer fans are out for fresh blood. Everyone get on their Twitters and spam the guy!
Portland would do what he said, but it's starting to rain and none of them want to go outside if they don't have to.
He wishes they got a team back and that Durant was on it. LMAO They let their team slip away once, they won't get a second chance.
Reading it gives the reader ideas. Simmons and Kang bubble with ideas. An alternative league of the cities rejected by the NBA is actually a good idea. I only got through part of it. Can someone who read it explain what comes before your excerpt. What are the 65 duo captains, and how does Roy fit in?
Okay, so again, what is the context of the excerpt? What are the 65 duo captains, and how does Roy fit in?
Kang hates Portland and has been adamant about the it. He has an article up online (i'll try and find it) were he can't believe Seattle loses there NBA team and the likes of "Portland" get to keep theirs. He doesn't like us he doesn't have to, in the end we have an NBA team and his city doesn't... but his city does have an NFL team... DAMN! (Actually I don't even know if Kang lives in Seattle.) I don't know about you guys but Grantland.com is a site i'v enjoyed reading, Simmons has done a good job and its funny to figure out how he will take a shot this time at the Blazers when he rights an NBA article.
-They have 8 teams of 10 players. 80 total. -Egos of the best players mean that they can't just select 8 captains, b/c #9, 10, etc. would be pissed off and not play. So they do "dual-captains" for the teams--with the caveat that they can't be current teammates. Therefore, no LBJ/Wade, but Durant/Z-bo, Rose/Amar'e, Dirk/Nash, etc. So there's 16 of the best players already. -They 8 teams then have a recess-style snake draft where they pick 1-7, then the 8th team picks 8-9, and so on. It goes 8 rounds of 8 players each, for the other 64 players. But you can only draft players that are invited to the draft (kind of like the 1st round green room). So one of the twists was to invite 65 players for the 64 spots, and Kang was betting that Roy would be that guy that got invited but not picked. BTW, I haven't been supremely impressed with Kang. Edit: I read (reed, not red) every word that Simmons writes, and many of the Grantland guys that are way more literary than I. I like Grantland a lot, for points and views that I wouldn't have thought of.
He can dislike Portland as much as he wants to, but at the end of the day, Portland fans are less bandwagony then Seattle fans are. And Portland still has a team, so to quote someone much younger than me: Haters gonna hate, Imma go masturbate.
there's insults (your mother wears combat boots), dumb insults (your mom!) and insults that take too much explanation (well see, the thing is, your mom once went to Berkeley, and she was quite promiscuous. I at the same time went to Berkeley, and your mother did not have relations with me. And by relations, I mean we did not engage in consensual sex, or even a handy. That is where she got the derisive nickname of "No Handout Helen", and thus why me calling your girlfriend No Handout Alicia, is in fact an insult to your girlfriend at a degree that should warrant you getting angry."). This insult is one of those "needs too much explaining to make it worth it's weight".
True Portlanders don't even notice whether it's raining or not. Staying inside because it's raining is a dead giveaway you're a transplanted Californian.
