Bill Simmons Suspended from Twitter by ESPN?

Deadspin says so. And its story makes a certain amount of sense.  Simmons hasn’t tweeted since Monday, which is wildly unexpected since he is both a Boston guy and an avid tweeter. The idea of Simmons voluntarily staying quiet on Twitter after one of the most popular athletes in Boston history, Wes Welker, signed with his Patriots’ rival AFC team, the Denver Broncos, is unthinkable.

Deadspin says Simmons’ recent Twitter criticism of ESPN’s angry-sports-talking-head-show First Take is what got him in trouble.

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