The
NBA Power Rankings popped up on my Twitter feed and I decided to give it a read. And it was mostly pretty good, but this was written by an adult that is considered an NBA Expert:
Emphasis mine.
Come on, man. A reverse jinx? Were your shoelaces crossed too, because that doesn't count, you know! It's hard to read Simmons after he writes shit like this because you start wondering: a. does he
really fucking believe in reverse jinxes or b. if this is schtick, are you so thin-skinned that you can't ever admit that you're wrong? It taints the rest of the piece. Badly.
And that is my main problem with Simmons the writer, he hasn't grown one iota since he was banging out columns at Digital City. This is the type of crap that a 28-year-old kid writes. I don't know whether this is a loose transcript of his ranking podcast and he added more to this on that, but man, this just reads dumb.
BTW, why would you reverse jinx the Heat? Wade, James and Bosh are gone. I guess if you really hate Pat Riley (probably the answer) then you would, but then you give him the potential for a high lottery pick.