Bill Simmons doesn’t want us to write this article. Or does he?
"The aggregation culture in 2024, I don't know if it's ever been stupider."
"The aggregation culture in 2024, I don't know if it's ever been stupider."
"Are you doing this because it's the right thing or are you doing this because it's just f***ing way easier doing this than grinding and watching 20 hours of football in a weekend?"
"Ringer managers expect us to accept a contract that does not address this issue. It’s unacceptable and offensive to members of our unit."
"I've always had this theory with Larry Bird: his first nine years I think is the greatest start to a career in the history of the NBA."
"Everybody's ratings are basically up except for the NBA and whoever replaced the 12 p.m. SportsCenter."
"That's a huge number that did not hit. That's really big. Really good, Bill. You still have it."
"Like if Marvin Harrison Sr. had a really tall son."
"I'm surprised that wasn't a Curb plot -- somebody ruining the game for you."
"What is this with you and wrestling?"
The Ringer founder's son recently got turned onto a brain supplement from his dad's Spotify teammate, and took it too far.
"You won six Super Bowls. And now, you can come to The Ringer."
Rivers was humble, passionate and celebratory about a league in the NBA that needs that desperately from its analysts.
"He starts the show, and then he'll be like, 'Cowboys, bro, I don't know man. I don't know. What's going on there, bro?'"
"Good luck to everyone involved."
"This guy doesn't have it. His name's C.J. He went to Ohio State."
"This is going to be one of the all-time sports television disasters."
"Can you make this make sense for me?"
"We’re looking forward to winning a fair contract for all our members over the coming weeks."
Keegan Abdoo of Next Gen Stats told Benjamin Solak the data usage is "night and day" compared with previous seasons.
"The realization was audio doesn't go viral, video goes viral."
"You can't tell whether it's on Spotify or not because the numbers are jerryrigged."
"They've only had to pull out five or six inches of it during the season, but I think it's Milton Berle sized."
"I just don't see it. How many great initial quarterbacks have we had?"
Simmons' "Million-Dollar Picks" are down $854,000 on the year.