Bill Simmons trolls ESPN, Chris Mortensen over Deflategate

Bill Simmons is trolling ESPN’s Chris Mortensen over his defense of his erroneous Deflategate report.

Chris Mortensen has come under fire for his original Deflategate report, which has since been discredited. Despite the overwhelming evidence that Mortensen got his report wrong, he didn’t retract or correct it. He has since come out and defended his report.

“I already had changed the descriptive tone. And I did with our news desk, pretty early, to ‘significantly underinflated.’ And I will never retract that,” he said, via The Big Lead. “The two pounds PSI, that was obviously an error and clarified and corrected. If you want to call it a retraction—what I didn’t do was retract it on Twitter. And that was probably technically a mistake.”

Enter former ESPN personality Bill Simmons, who seemingly has an ax to grind with the network. He didn’t hold back on Twitter trolling ESPN and Mortensen.

“I always thought that, if a potentially damaging report turned out to be completely 100% wrong, then it had to be corrected and/or retracted,” Simmons wrote on Twitter.

Simmons proceeded to make some hilariously bizarre fake reports on Twitter and then retract them.

My bad. It turns out that @rembert is NOT the father of Kim Kardashian's second baby. I retract the report and I have deleted the tweet.
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 4, 2015

Sources tell me that @Rembert wrote Meek's last diss track.
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 4, 2015

Sources - @rembert did NOT write the last Meek diss track, but he did listen to it, so I am not going to delete the tweet.
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 4, 2015

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