Simmons: Lakers will win the NBA finals
On May 30, 2008, Bill Simmons predicted that the Los Angeles Lakers would win the NBA Finals:
The good news? We’re one more Boston victory away from an improbable Celtics-Lakers matchup in the NBA Finals that, under normal circumstances, would have me so giddy I’d be walking around Los Angeles randomly re-enacting the McHale-Rambis clothesline on unsuspecting pedestrians.
The bad news? Nobody is beating the Lakers this season. Not Boston, not Detroit, not anybody. They have the best team, the best player and a Hall of Fame coach. It’s really that simple.
Simmons said on his podcast the during the finals that this prediction was a reverse jinx. He got into trouble for jinxing the Patriots by writing an entire column comparing them to a mid-eighties Celtics team (a team widely considered one of the best teams in any sport ever) thus costing them the Superbowl. Whether this was just dissembling or not, it’s unclear.