With the way the NBA is now, I knew Isaiah Canaan wouldn’t be out of a job for long. Remember, or if you’re not an obsessive stat-head like me, learn for the first time, that he was 15th in the league in total threes made in the 2015-16 season. Only 14 players canned more triples than him. Yeah, he was chucking on a bad team, but still. You don’t just luck into 176 long bombs.
This particular video is a bit light on buckets (only three for the Canaanball), but I made it anyway because he hit some sick game-winning free throws. In his debut. Not as great as a real game-winning bucket, but still really good. Add in seven assists, some of them actually nice, and this is totally highlight-worthy.
Now, is there a reason Mike James didn’t play? Is he that bad/cancerous/maddening that they couldn’t even put him the game, preferring instead to play the three-headed monster of Canaan, Danuel House, and Troy Daniels?