That Bill Simmons is one funny guy. What a sense of humor. Who knew that Tyreke was holding all of that fine teammate talent back? Bill did. Thanks for finally getting the truth out, Bill. The Kings are a talent-laden ballclub that would flourish if someone else were running the show. Stop it, Bill. My sides are aching.

but I think he just said Tyreke is a franchise player while Curry is a complementary player.

And that’s the reason he didn’t like Evans with Durant. 2 franchise players might not play well together. After all, Shaq and Kobe did go their separate bitter ways…

time will tell, but either way, the Kings have Tyreke Evans. I am happy, so why care?

Just take his analysis of any team with a name not beginning with C with a grain of salt. His ROY take loses all credibility because he thinks that handgun in Pulp Fiction held 25 rounds.

This screams of “I have to write an article this week that is relevant and have an opinion on something that could go either way and i could care less if i look like a fool a year from now because i can just say i am a fool and people won’t care”

His argument for the Thunder better of with Curry over Tyreke was fine but his argument for Curry being ROY is the worst, laziest, bullshit argument I have ever heard. It was downright awful. I have heard some decent arguments for Curry & some bad ones but this was the worst.

It belongs on a GSOM thread. It would actually be one of the worst comments on the thread. He might as well have gone babyface4you & said " If Curry were on the King’s they’d have 50 wins with all that talent."

Also as much as I don’t like Don Nelson he is a master at match-ups & getting the best out of mediocre players. He will never win a championship but if he were the coach of the Kings we might finished with 35 wins. I think PW was coaching for the future which is better but Nelson would have figured out a way to make every bench player talent guy on our team our team look like a star. We would have had teams beating down our door for Andres Nocioni & Spencer Hawes at the trade deadline. Also Cisco if he was healthy & we sure would have recieved a better deal for Martin.

I am in no way endorsing or praising Nelson. I think he is a very gimmicky coach who will never take you anywhere but the first or second round of the playoffs, maybe but definitely not to a championship.

In all seriousness, I don’t have much of an opinion on Simmons. I obviously disagree with some of what he said, but the weird thing is that there was a somewhat decent argument he could’ve made buried deep down there. Instead of saying that Tyreke played with a more talented team (I honestly think the two teams are more or less equal), he could’ve said that Tyreke benefitted from playing with a more consistent lineup of players throughout the season, because of GS’s injuries, and that would’ve been a valid point. It wouldn’t change my mind for who deserves ROY, but I don’t think we could have really argued that Tyreke had some level of consistency that Curry did not.

Then again, his whole argument would’ve been nullfied by his comment about him thinking Curry looked like more fun to play with. Because apparently fun = better player. It might just be me, but I don’t think it would be particularly fun to play with someone like, say, Kevin Garnett. He’s a great player and I like his intensity, but he doesn’t seem like the most FUN person on the court. Talent and fun are separate qualities.

Martin would still be on the team and yes the Kings would be a better team. You can not argue against that. Reke and KMart could not coexist however Curry and KMart would have been SWEEEET!!!!

And honestly decided it wasn’t worth the effort. Simmons says:

I never watched a Warriors game without thinking, “Curry would be fun to play with” at least once. I can’t say the same about Evans.

But I’ll pretty much guarantee that he caught glimpses of games on League Pass, and a couple games when the Kings or Dubs were playing Boston. Other than that, I’m pretty sure he never bothered to watch those teams.

Simmons is an entertaining writer. He generates controversy, such as this, which gets people to talk about his articles, like we are. That’s what he does. He comes up with interesting angles and opinions, even if they aren’t always right. Hell, we’re critiqued for cherry-picking the 20-5-5 stat, but there’s no way we could have ever come up with something as absurd as this:

the first rookie ever to average 17 points and two 3s per game and top 85 percent free throw shooting and 40 percent 3-point shooting

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Don’t get upset about Simmons. It’s not worth it. In a few years he’ll be on the Tyreke bandwagon again. That’s right, I said again. Remember? He loved Tyreke at mid season.

.. is brilliant at commenting on or satirizing anything that has already taken place. Hindsight is 20/20.

He’s annoying and horrible at making any sort of prediction or future analysis.