Its difficult to call any journalist a superstar but Bill Simmons is as close as you can get.
Simmons is a bestselling author, the host of the popular B.S Report podcast,the co-creator of ESPN's outstanding 30 for 30 documentary series, a pundit on ESPN's NBA coverage, runs the Grantland website as well as having over two million Twitter followers.
However even the best can make an error of judgement as Simmons proves here by linking the Memphis Grizzlies crowd's reaction to going behind against the San Antonio Spurs in game 3 of the Western Conference finals playoffs to Martin Luther King's assassination which occurred in the city 45 years ago.
"I didn’t realize the effect [The MLK assassination] had on that city…I think from people we talk to and stuff we’ve read, the shooting kind of sets 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. They were like, ‘Oh no, something bad is going to happen.’ And I think it starts from that shooting."
Simmons made the comments on his podcast after around 8:45 and can be heard here.
