Tarik Black is a special type of player known as a “fan favorite”. Usually a player designated as such is lacking in skin pigmentation and not very good; Tarik, as evidenced by his last name, actually has plentiful melanin in his skin, but excels enough at the not very good part to make up for…
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Derrick Favors 29 Points Full Highlights (3/10/2015)
I’m done screwing around. I still have a bunch of these “Flavors of Favors” cookbooks sitting around. It’s not a question of if or when you guys are going to buy them. I’m just telling you straight up: you guys are going to buy them. Now. I’ve said it before, but I think it bears…
Read MoreCole Aldrich 17 Points Full Highlights (3/10/2015)
Cole “Aldrich Horror” Aldrich is an odd case. Taken 11th overall in 2010, he has bounced around the league, never making much of an impact. There’s a word for people who were drafted high but then turned out to not be very impactful basketball players. I can’t use the term, though, because if I do,…
Read MoreRodney Hood 17 Points Full Highlights (3/10/2015)
I’m a blank slate when it comes to Rodney Hood. I have no opinion of him either way. In fact, I think I may have exceeded my total opinion quota, rendering it impossible to form new opinions until I have gotten rid of some old ones. Until that happens, we’re going to have to go…
Read MoreRodney Stuckey 34 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (3/10/2015)
Rodney Stuckey gazed out the window. He knew he could never return. Resting his head against the glass, he remembered all the good times that he had experienced. It seemed like a past life, now, though it had only been 15 minutes since his departure. All those accomplishments. All those friends… Overcome by emotion, he…
Read MoreMichael Carter-Williams 25 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (3/9/2015)
The big question of Michael Carter-Williams’ career up to now: was he bad because of his horrible situation or was he in a horrible situation made worse because of his badness? We are closer to figuring out the answer, now that he has been traded to a non-dumpster-fire Bucks team. The early returns on our…
Read MoreTony Snell 21 Points Full Highlights (3/9/2015)
Tony “Snells Like Teen Spirit” Snell: should he have stuck with the braids yeah or nah? He’s already distinctive in appearance, but those things just put him over the top. He had the killer trifecta of: 1. Being blacker than an oil spill at midnight during an eclipse 2. Having a face that looks like…
Read MoreAdreian Payne 16 Points/3 Dunks Full Highlights (3/9/2015)
Now is when we start wondering why Adreian Payne couldn’t even get in games for the Atlanta Hawks. Maybe a winning team doesn’t have time to bring along a semi-raw rookie, but surely they could have found at least some run for him. Him becoming a good player (as he looks like he might with…
Read MoreKyle Korver 20 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (3/9/2015)
You know what would be sweet? If someone would make a video that showed all of Kyle Korver’s three point makes in a given season. That would be super fun to watch, I bet, a sensory overload of pure marksmanship. Oh wait. I already did that. And, I’m not gonna lie, it was a blast…
Read MoreMichael Beasley 14 Points Full Highlights (3/9/2015)
I didn’t believe it was possible, but Michael Beasley is no longer the biggest headcase on his team. A distinction he held throughout his whole career, from freaking out over his bone and rubbing the wrong knee in Minnesota to eating ice cream using waffle fries as a spoon and annoying LeBron so much that…
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