Jonas Valanciunas sat on his couch, dozens upon dozens of throw pillows scattered upon the cushions. He had achieved optimal comfiness levels by augmenting the pillows with a soft blanket and a twelve-pack of Heineken, but these material comforts shed no light on the action that was unfolding on his TV screen. “You have to…
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Devin Booker 14 Points Suns Debut Full Highlights (10/28/2015)
Now this is what I’m talking about. A rookie debut performance that isn’t “just barely good enough to make highlights of” but also isn’t “so amazing that every highlight compiler does it first thing”. A nice, solid outing from an NBA greenhorn. What can we take away from his game tonight? Well, he can dunk!…
Read MoreBrook Lopez 26 Points Full Highlights (10/28/2015)
What the heck am I doing? The second night of the season, tons of sweet performances to compress into three-minute long YouTube videos, and I’m sitting here making Brook “Blowpez” Lopez highlights. Even in the best of times, this dude simply doesn’t generate the most video views. Since I don’t make any ad money (or…
Read MoreC.J. McCollum Career High 37 Points Full Highlights (10/28/2015)
As a slow start for CJ McCollum to the season turned into a slow middle of the season turned into a slow end of the season, I was ready to break out the famed “bust” label and affix it directly to CJ’s forehead. The 10th overall pick should have shown more, said I, even if…
Read MoreMario Hezonja 11 Points Magic Debut Full Highlights (10/28/2015)
DownToBuck has definitely learned his lesson this time: No more joking about former Yugoslav countries in the descriptions. There are still a lot of tensions in that region, and what may seem like innocuous fun here in the States comes off as nationalistic hate over there. Which kind of sucks for me, because now what…
Read MoreEmmanuel Mudiay 17 Points/9 Assists Nuggets Debut Full Highlights (10/28/2015)
That’s it. Consider me hyped. Abandoning all pretenses of moderateness and objectivity, I have become HYPED for Emmanuel Mudiay. 17 and 9 against one of the top teams in the west? I have two words for you: Holy balls. A non-hyped individual might point towards Emmanuel’s 11 turnovers as evidence that excessive hype is unwarranted….
Read MoreIsh Smith 17 Points/9 Assists Pelicans Debut Full Highlights (10/27/2015)
Ish Smith sat with his agent in a bland conference room. They were at the Pelicans’ front office, trying to get Ish a job. As the business guys droned on about salary this and cap that, Ish wondered idly how many assists he would have to average before teams would start wine-and-dining him. Maybe ten….
Read MoreMo Williams 19 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (10/27/2015)
Sometimes it’s nice to see bridges, long since burned in haste, raised anew in the name of camaraderie. Now is not one of those times. There aren’t enough real beefs in the NBA, and the Mo Williams-LeBron James feud was one of the last that drama-seeking NBA fans had. Remember when Mo, before a Cavs-Heat…
Read MoreErsan Ilyasova 16 Points Pistons Debut Full Highlights (10/27/2015)
Huh. A lot of player movement this offseason, yeah? I guess it’s gonna take a while before I fully internalize the moves that have been made. Yup. Whole bunch of new faces, or rather, old faces with new unis. Players you thought would be with a team for their whole career, maybe, I don’t know,…
Read MoreKentavious Caldwell-Pope 21 Points Full Highlights (10/27/2015)
The dream ended as my body fully re-entered the Earth’s regular timeflow. However, my brain did not easily relinquish the dream, terrifying though it had been. My eyes flew open to find a tall man dressed in white staring down at me, but all I could recall was that the NBA had been taken away…
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