Erstwhile ESPN columnist Bill Simmons opened the latest installment of his HBO program "Any Given Wednesday" with a ludicrous pitch on the eve of Rio 2016: to send an under-25 team to represent the United States in future Olympic basketball competitions.
Man, if he’s reaching that hard for subject matter on his fifth show, he’s got a problem.
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The Deflategate mine is already exhausted, apparently.
Simmons did us the favor of giving us J.J. Redick’s reason and some humor from "New Girl" star Lamorne Morris in the discussion built around this pointless U-25 idea, but it still was a segment about an idea to weaken the United States in international competition.