What?! How in the world did Bill Simmons come to this conclusion?! I just can’t see any connection. The MLK assassination is why a basketball crowd gets tensed up? Maybe this guy needs some time off. I don’t even know what to say. SMH.
Report after the jump…
Via Deadspin:
While many of you Memphis Grizzlies fans out there may THINK that you were nervous during the Western Conference Finals because you were a young franchise with a lackluster history going up against one of the best-run franchises in all of sport, Bill Simmons—GOD OF FANS—has a MUCH better explanation (audio is here, about nine minutes in):
I didn’t realize the effect [the MLK shooting] had on that city…I think from people we talk to and stuff we’ve read, the shooting kind of set the tone with how the city thinks about stuff. We were at Game 3. Great crowd, they fall behind, and the whole crowd got tense. It was like, ‘Oh no, something bad’s gonna happen.’ And I think it starts from that shooting.
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