Sometimes, the NBA lets me down. Sometimes, they let all of us down. This is one of those times.
The Suns’ broadcast failed to show Devin Booker’s first point of the night, coming on a technical free throw. They just didn’t show it, preferring instead to run some footage of Dirk Nowitzki hitting that game-winner and the Kobe congratulating him. What a joke. The free throw happened, because points were awarded for it, but the viewing public was purposely left in the dark.
Thanks to the incompetence of the the Suns broadcast crew, the Suns organization, and the NBA as a whole, these aren’t even full highlights. That’s right: I LIED about the state of these highlights so that you would watch them.
Watching this video will leave you unfulfilled. How can you get a good grasp of how Devin Booker played this game if there are plays missing? You can’t. You simply cannot get a good grasp of the quality of Booker’s performance. I would apologize, but it’s not my fault.