So… this is the guy the Magic dropped Rashad Vaughn for? Huh. That’s cool, I guess. Let me know when he scores 22. DownToBuck OUT.
For real though I’m getting hyped for Rodney Purvis. He’s the type of player I live for: 10-day contract, check. Cool name, check. Tanking team, check. Bucket-getter, check. He checks all the boxes, except for the “foreign” one. He was getting some run these last few games, but not scoring a whole lot, and I was slightly worried he would disappear back to the G-League before highlightage could happen.
Then, like it was no big deal, he just went out there and scored 19 tonight. 19, which is almost 20, which would be even more legit. This is pretty legit though. The commentators said he had a 40-point game in the G-League this year (I cut out the “G-League” part in the video because now it sounds like he scored 40 in the NBA), but that’s not too terribly impressive. This is way better, I think. Real NBA teams with real NBA defenders trump whatever happens in the G-League any day.