OFFICIAL DTB REMINDER: At certain points last season, John “Hell’s Hensman” Henson was getting DNP-CD’s from the now-departed Jason Kidd (who was a serial drunk). Greg Monroe and Miles Plumlee were stealing his minutes. A guy who can put up this kind of complete stat-stuffage (his final line: 19/18/3/0/2) should not be nailed to the bench, but he was anyway. It made me mad at the time, and now that I’m looking back at it retroactively through the lens of Henson’s beastitude, it’s just making me madder.
I used to view Henson’s contract as a negative asset, due to it paying him ten million dollars a year to sometimes block a shot, sometimes dunk the ball, and always get bullied by bigger guys. But his near-60% shooting from the field and his reinvigorated rebounding ability have made his contract into a tradable asset. Hello, Steve Ballmer? Yes, I’ll have one DeAndre Jordan please. Oh, by the way, Windows Server 2008 was a piece of trash.