Andrew Bogut dunking on Monta Ellis must have represented something, but I am too literal-minded to figure out what. There is something deeper meaning hidden within the poster dunk/alley-oop layup, a metaphor of great significance. It has something to do with the Bucks, but that is all I can ascertain.
Read MoreMonth: March 2014
Manu Ginobili 22 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2014)
Manu Ginobili lay on the chaise in his therapist’s office. The room was almost surreal in its typicality; bookshelves crammed with medical treatises lined the dark-stained walls, and a single window pointed out at a calm city street several blocks below. The therapist, too, was a stereotype; a man with a full head of gray…
Read MoreAndrew Bynum Pacers Debut 8 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2014)
Remind me again why people are excited about Andrew Bynum? Yeah, I know he was a great player once upon a time, before his knees got taken to Pennsylvania and were magically transmuted into Philly cheesesteaks. But this guy straight-up quit on the last team he was on. Just absolutely quit and said he had…
Read MoreDarren Collison 20 Points/4 Assists Full Highlights (3/10/2014)
Darren Collison patiently fielded questions from reporters after the game. Most of the questions were astounding in their banality, the same questions that every player was asked after every game. Now, yet another no-name hack was asking him another one. “How do you feel about your four assists this game? Were you looking for your…
Read MoreKhris Middleton 21 Points/7 Assists/5 Threes Full Highlights (3/10/2014)
The Bucks currently have the worst record in the league. But they are not the worst team anymore; the 76ers are way worse and the Magic might be too. Philly, especially, represents a very real threat of losing the top spot in the draft lottery, theoretically pushing the Bucks down too far in the draft…
Read MoreDrew Gooden 15 Points Full Highlights (3/10/2014)
People like to criticize LeBron for not winning any titles during his tenure with the Cavs. And to be sure, some of the blame falls on him. But have you looked at the teammates that he had to share the ball with? Drew Gooden was the second or third best player on some of those…
Read MoreAmar’e Stoudemire 23 Points Full Highlights (3/10/2014)
The Knicks commentators seem to be fond of saying “STAT’s back”. Not his back like the thing that is totally mangled, but his returning to the quality of play from his old days. And if you watch these highlights, it certainly seems true. He still has the power, finishing through contact with ease. He can…
Read MoreHenry Sims 10 Points/3 Assists/1 Dunk Full Highlights (3/10/2014)
Remember the basketball hoop you could buy in the original Sims video game? Where your Sim would do a little dance if they made a basket? That’s kind of what I imagined Henry Sims’ game to be like before making these highlights. Now I know I was dead wrong – Sims does not do any…
Read MoreTrey Burke 23 Points/5 Threes Full Highlights (3/10/2014)
Everyone remembers with fondness when T-Mac had 13 points in 33 seconds. Right? It’s one of those YouTube videos that every NBA fan has watched like 10 times. Don’t tell me you haven’t seen it. Seriously? Leave. Anyway, yeah, that was pretty great. Fun times. But what if I told you there was a guy…
Read MoreKyle Korver 26 Points Full Highlights (3/10/2014)
Quick quiz: how long was Kyle Korver’s streak of consecutive games with a made three? Answer: No one knows, because it’s the kind of achievement that is forgotten instantly, by the entirety of humanity, once it’s over. Google might know. But that thing isn’t human. Anyway, now we can watch Korver play without worry or…
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