Maybe he was trying to protect his editors since they were non contract workers.

He hired away some of his old hires, giving ESPN a pretext to close the whole thing? It’s a very flimsy criticism, imo, but there are tons of vehement Simmons haters out there grasping for straws. Instead of looking at this and coming to the logical conclusion, that ESPN is a terrible company, they try to spin at as…

What did he do? He was fired. I do not get it.

I have no qualms with them getting out of the pop culture business, I just hope they decide to return to the sports business.