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Sports Discussion / Re: 2016 Rio Olympics - open thread
« on: August 16, 2016, 07:58:13 am »
bill simmons is definitely racist, but i don't take his "what if" thing about iverson that way. to me it's more just a way of trying to appreciate or describe obliquely iverson's unbelievable combination of quickness, hand-eye coordination, body awareness, and intelligence.
of course hypotheticals like that don't hold much water, in the same way that "randy moss would have been better if he hadn't smoked so much weed" or "usain bolt is lazy he could have run sub-9.5 if he weren't so lazy" don't. still kind of fun to think about iverson growing up in liverpool and spending his career going head-to-head with zidane.
of course hypotheticals like that don't hold much water, in the same way that "randy moss would have been better if he hadn't smoked so much weed" or "usain bolt is lazy he could have run sub-9.5 if he weren't so lazy" don't. still kind of fun to think about iverson growing up in liverpool and spending his career going head-to-head with zidane.