Over in the Vulture Reading Room, with almost our entire panel chiming in, Bill “the Sports Guy” Simmons’s Book of Basketball is taking a beating. Tommy Craggs: “Lord knows the world has seen more than its share of treacly crap about fate and muscles and human whim conspiring miraculously to take sports somewhere beyond sports.” Jonathan Lethem: “I felt starved for something booklike in this book-resembling object.” Bethelem Shoals: “Bill Walton as Tupac, I simply cannot abide.” Simmons defenders, go forth! [Vulture Reading Room]