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Chicago Tribune drops Sam Smith

Postby JSM on Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:18 pm

Sacramento Bee: Longtime NBA scribe Sam Smith is no more at the Chicago Tribune, as he accepted a buyout this week. He's not off the hoops map, though, as he has been writing for hoopshype.com.
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Postby MadMax on Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:40 pm

A buyout? so they wanted him gone? whats the story about all of this?
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Postby GameTimeLaker on Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:16 pm

He's a pretty good writer, very pro-Kobe.

Hmm....
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Postby mapabu1 on Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:58 pm

HE is pro-Kobe but i wouldn't call him a good writer
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Postby KB+KG=DOMINATION on Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:29 pm

so does that mean no more groundless trade rumors from him

thats why they bought him out all he did was pull rumors out of his butt
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Postby JSM on Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:36 pm

KB+KG=DOMINATION wrote:so does that mean no more groundless trade rumors from him

thats why they bought him out all he did was pull rumors out of his butt

Yep. No more "trade rumors" which were really just random ideas he pulled out of his head. He's still blogging at hoopshype but I don't think his entires will get near the attention his articles for the Tribune did.
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Postby #1lakerfan on Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:14 am

No more CRAZY trade-rumors
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Postby GameTimeLaker on Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:02 am

mapabu1 wrote:HE is pro-Kobe but i wouldn't call him a good writer


He was a writer for a major news publication out of Chicago, I would constitute him as being a good writer simply by the level he reached.

Everyone has their own opinion, I personally thought he was a good writer.
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Postby mapabu1 on Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:37 am

^ So you think Tj Simers is a good writer
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Postby GameTimeLaker on Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:23 pm

mapabu1 wrote:^ So you think Tj Simers is a good writer


Maybe not by my standards, but who am I compared to the LA Times editorial team, ya dig?
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Postby d33pzone on Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:07 am

Sam Smith is the NBA Expert on msnbcsports so I usually read him there once a week. I think he was a pretty good writer and didn't really have a problem with him. His column is always a good read for me.
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