Or: “From the Abyss of Scrubs there is No Escape” The part you’ve been waiting for. The part I’ve been waiting for. The end of the journey. Part 4. This part features the absolute lowest bottom-dwellers of the NBA, the ones for whom each made shot is a discrete event in their memory. These are…
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Every NBA Player’s First Field Goal This Season (2017-18 Season Full-ilation Part III)
Or: “Scrubbiness Intensifies” I don’t mean to imply that the players depicted in part three of this four-part epic journey through the catacombs of the NBA are “scrubs”. A few of them are, but what I meant was that the players in this part are definitely on a lower tier than the players in part…
Read MoreEvery NBA Player’s First Field Goal This Season (2017-18 Season Full-ilation Part II)
Or: “A Dreadful Hodgepodge of Mediocre Role-Players” Part two of my series chronicling every NBA player’s first basket is a slightly dispiriting affair: it starts with role-players who already kinda suck, and it doesn’t really get better. Not much worse, either. You knew this was coming after E’Twaun Moore appeared in the first half of…
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Or: “The Players You Think of When You Think ‘NBA Players’” We are gathered here on the day of the start of the 2018-19 NBA preseason, excited to see what is in store. But first, it is time to close the book on the 2017-18 season with what hopefully will become a time-honored tradition: a…
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