Joel Embiid is already beasting. That is a fact. He is beasting in the NBA right now, despite being clinically dead for the better part of two years. He is beasting with threes, he is beasting with funny social media escapades, and he’s beasting with the weight of an entire franchise on his back. It…
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Elfrid Payton 25 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (12/23/2016)
If you told someone “Elfrid Payton can’t shoot”, and then showed them this video, you would be one dumb MFer. Why give people information that completely refutes your point? That would be stupid as heck. Payton makes it rain in this video, is what I’m trying to say. He makes it rain in spite of…
Read MoreRyan Anderson 28 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (12/23/2016)
These highlights would have been a lot more sweet if they depicted Ryan Anderson scoring 31 points with 8 threes, as the boxscore told me, rather than these 28 points with 7 threes, which is what really happened in real life really. Who knows, maybe by the time you’re reading this the NBA will have…
Read MoreJaVale McGee 15 Points/5 Dunks Full Highlights (12/23/2016)
DTB’s Fun* Fact of the Day*: JaVale McGee is currently (not taking this game into account) number two in the NBA in shots made on a per minute basis, slightly behind Russell Westbrook. Westbrook takes an extra 8 shots per 36 to make .3 of a shot more than McGee. *DTB’s Fun Fact of the…
Read MoreSerge Ibaka 23 Points Full Highlights (12/22/2016)
In my neverending quest to determine who the best player on the Magic actually is, I have switched allegiences several times. Some days it is Evan Fournier, who leads the team in raw scoring while also scoring efficiently. Some days it is Nikola Vucevic, if I’m feeling nostalgic for the days when he was a…
Read MoreJames Johnson 19 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (12/22/2016)
Eric Spoelstra sat alone in his office. Everybody had already gone home for the day. The hallways were dark and silent, save for the distant sound of the janitor’s radio as he cleaned some faraway part of the Heat’s front office. Ghostly moonlight seeped in through the closed blinds covering the windows, providing only dim…
Read MoreJustise Winslow Career High 23 Points Full Highlights (12/22/2016)
The problem with the national TV commentators is that they don’t get hyped enough when roleplayers start going off. It took them until very late in the game to even acknowledge that Justise Winslow was doing anything out of the ordinary. And it was only one of the dudes who noticed. I don’t think Shaq…
Read MoreWilly Hernangomez 15 Points Full Highlights (12/22/2016)
Attention everybody: Willy Hernangomez’s first name is actually pronounced “Billy”, so I hope you guys are all really sorry for pronouncing it how it looked. Attention DownToBuck: remember to put something in the description about Billy Walker because Knicks fans really loved that guy. Attention Willy: Kristaps may look and act like he’s your friend,…
Read MoreKyle O’Quinn 14 Points/5 Blocks Full Highlights (12/22/2016)
“Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas!” “Kyle, what the hell is this?” groaned Carmelo Anthony in response to the figures that had just walked through the locker room door. If Kyle O’Quinn had hoped to make an impression, he certainly did: he was dressed in the traditional attire of Santa Claus, but with a green-colored coat…
Read MoreZaza Pachulia 14 Points Full Highlights (12/22/2016)
The NBA did right by me when they changed the All-Star voting to not take the consideration of the fans into account as much as before. I’m going to call their decision the “Zaza Effect”. They knew what was at stake. They knew that if things didn’t change, Pachulia would have been voted the starting…
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