The Raptors’ center situation can be viewed, not as a clash of basketball players and their respective talents, but as a geopolitically-charged morass that’s waiting to explode at any moment. With Valanciunas represnting Lithuania, Poeltl representing Austria, and Nogueira representing Brazil, you can bet that the embassies of these countries are watching the situation very…
Read MoreMonth: October 2017
Mario Hezonja 11 Points Full Highlights (10/21/2017)
Last season, Mario Hezonja regressed so hard that it was like he was literally travelling backwards through time and having his ability to play basketball stripped from him. His haircut game was on point, but the rest of his game was off point. Magic fans were turning on him, and maybe even the people of…
Read MoreDomantas Sabonis 18 Points/2 Dunks Full Highlights (10/21/2017)
Domantas Sabonis has only appeared in three games for the Pacers so far (can’t really blame him), but already he’s thrown down two and a half posterizing dunks. One in his debut, and one and a half tonight. He had one all of last year. What does this mean, this sudden and heretofore unexpressed desire…
Read MoreJoe Ingles 19 Points Full Highlights (10/21/2017)
Joe “The Trevally from Happy Valley” Ingles pretty much put on a show tonight. Stepback threes, a shoulder check from Steven Adams, regular threes, a bunch of trash talk directed at rookie Terrance Ferguson for some reason (not a good look to trash talk a rookie, my man), and an ankle breaker. Aren’t you hyped?…
Read MoreEnes Kanter 17 Points Full Highlights (10/21/2017)
The Enes Kanter/Steven Adams bromance has, tearfully (I assume at least one of them cried about its termination at some point), come to an end. It was truly a beautiful thing, but not everybody likes beautiful things. Some bad people see beautiful things and, disgusted by the beauty that they provide to the world while…
Read MoreVictor Oladipo 28 Points Full Highlights (10/21/2017)
I basically ignored Victor Oladipo all of last year. I don’t even know why, because it’s not like he was playing super great or anything. Maybe I overreacted to him being the second best player on a popular team? Or because I thought he was supposed to be better than he was and I made…
Read MoreLauri Markkanen 13 Points Full Highlights (10/21/2017)
How many times do you think Lauri “Mämmi” Markkanen has been compared to Kristaps Porzingis? I’m not just talking about on YouTube, or on the internet, but every single time, real or digital, that people have said about Markkanen “hey that dude kinda reminds of that Porzingis fellow on the Knicks”. Is it a thousand?…
Read MoreJonathon Simmons 19 Points Full Highlights (10/21/2017)
The Magic have been cycling through lineups of uninspiring role-players for a couple years now. Every year, it seems like they could maybe be good, but every year, they’re not. The Detroit Pistons model of winning a chip was a lofty goal, but a Atlanta Hawks-style consistent playoff team shouldn’t have been to hard, right?…
Read MoreDe’Aaron Fox 18 Points Full Highlights (10/21/2017)
Attention fanbases other than the Kings’: this is what happens when you have a roster that is almost entirely composed of “potential” and “excitement”. You may think that that is what you want, but you often end up with a team that scores 79 only because they kind of went off in the fourth quarter,…
Read MoreTobias Harris 31 Points Full Highlights (10/21/2017)
You know, it took me a few years, but I had finally gotten over my infatuation and accepted that Tobias Harris was just a guy. Not any special type of player, just a decent scorer and much else. I was, finally, at peace with the Bucks trading him for Gustavo Ayon. A bad deal for…
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