April 13, 2017 – DownToBuck

Malik Beasley Career High 17 Points Full Highlights (4/12/2017)

I should have known that, one game after Malik Beasley’s then-career-high 16-point performance, the Nuggets would play only 7 guys and Beasley would have no choice but to set a new career high. I should have known, and it was foolish of me to put “Career High” in the title of that first vid when…

Trey Burke 27 Points Full Highlights (4/12/2017)

Trey “Treyburkulosis” Burke has been one of the most bench-buried players in the league this season. He was, at the beginning of the season, getting some amount of backup PG minutes, maybe not as many as a player of his caliber (or at least draft pedigree) should have been getting, but some. Then the Wizards…

Aaron Gordon 32 Points Full Highlights (4/12/2017)

I don’t think I’m ever going to be done being mad about how the Magic tried to ruin Aaron Gordon by bringing in Serge Ibaka. I mean, it’s good that they rectified their mistake by trading his ass away as soon as it was clear that they weren’t going to make the playoffs (again). That…

Marshall Plumlee 14 Points Full Highlights (4/12/2017)

The season ends with me having done Marshall Plumlee highlights but not Miles Plumlee highlights. This is humorous because of their respective contract situations; Miles is getting paid 15 million per season, while Marshall is compensated for his play with a free gyro every day. Marshall looks, as far as I can tell, basically the…

Boban Marjanovic 14 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (4/12/2017)

Man, I’m kind of descriptioned-out after writing all three of those Curry three-ilation stories in the span of about 10 minutes. Deadlines are the truest source of inspiration, and now that I don’t really have a deadline, I don’t know what to write about. Boban Marjanovic is the obvious candidate for subject matter, the Detroit…

Stephen Curry All 324 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2016-2017 Season Three-ilation Part III)

“That’s it. That’s the book he was reading before all this happened,” Dell Curry whispered as he stood outside his son’s house, peering through a gap in the blinds. Steve Kerr nodded gravely. “Either he is experiencing a problem with his newly-created three-point amulet, or he desires to craft an artefact of even greater potency,”…

Stephen Curry All 324 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2016-2017 Season Three-ilation Part II)

Stephen Curry ran through the rocky subterranean passageways underneath Oracle Arena. The three-point amulet, still warm and glowing from the smelting process, bounced against his chest as he searched for a way out. Its power circulated through his body, an entirely different sort of power than that which had emanated from the original amulet, stolen…

Stephen Curry All 324 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2016-2017 Season Three-ilation Part I)

“HE DID WHAT?” Dell Curry winced at the sudden outburst from Steve Kerr. “I saw it with my own eyes, Steve. Through some unfathomable sorcery, my own son has crafted for himself a new, greater relic – the three-point shooting amulet is remade.” “But the original three-point amulet was destroyed a year ago,” Steve protested,…

Justin Anderson Career High 26 Points Full Highlights (4/12/2017)

There’s just something about the 76ers that allows them to turn one team’s trash into another team’s treasure. Or, as Marc Zumoff likes to say, “Turns garbage… into gold!”. My theory is that something is the expectation of having no expectations; no one cares if you win or lose, in fact losing is preferred, so…

Nikola Jokic 29 Points/8 Assists/5 Blocks Full Highlights (4/12/2017)

The Nuggets’ locker room was somber, with little of the joking and laughter that had characterized the space for the past months. One by one, Nuggets players were coming and going to pick up their last remaining possessions from their lockers. They all knew that some would be on different teams next year, that the…