Maybe the Lakers’ broadcast does this all the time, but I found it amusing how they would constantly be cutting to LeBron on the sideline whenever Brandon Ingram (or another young player for the Lakers) would do something exciting. It’s like they’re trying to tell the viewer at home, “LeBron thinks these young players are…
Read MoreMonth: December 2018
Luke Kennard 16 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
New suggestion for the Pistons’ commentators: whenever Luke Kennard knocks down a three-pointer or hits one of his smooth, confident midrange jimbos, you have to yell “He just put them in the KENNEL!” This works on so many levels. It’s like an onion of metaphors where you keep peeling away layers to find more layers:…
Read MoreDwyane Wade 21 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
Is there a reason why the Heat can’t just make their “Vice” color scheme their permanent color scheme forever? It’s obviously a huge hit with fans (these jerseys are the best-selling in the NBA right now), and changing the team colors would symbolically shift away from the “big-three” era to the “just a bunch of…
Read MoreJosh Hart 22 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
I still suck at Fortnite. The only time I ever kill somebody is if I run into a fight in progress and start firing wildly. One time I even managed to kill two people this way. Most of the time, though, I’m running around with no guns and no health trying to evade detection because…
Read MoreKentavious Caldwell-Pope 26 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
It has come out that Kentavious Caldwell-Pope wants to be traded from the Lakers. I don’t know if he’s as gung-ho about his trade request as he used to be, but it looks like he may be acquirable for a team looking for some streaky no-nonsense chucking. So where should he end up? -Houston Rockets….
Read MorePascal Siakam 20 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
For some reason, the Raptors TV people just love using really zoomed-in shots of Pascal Siakam for their broadcast. I thank them for that, because it makes my job of gathering potential thumbnail images much easier, but it’s also kinda weird. And they don’t seem to do it as much with other players, like it’s…
Read MoreDerrick Jones 16 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
The Miami Heat have a new secret weapon: Derrick Jones Jr. using his freakish athleticism to fly in for offensive rebounds. It seems like, in the month of December, you can count on a few buckets per game from him just going in there and grabbing the ball off a miss because no one else…
Read MoreDe’Aaron Fox 26 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
Is there anything more fun than out-of-touch NBA team twitter accounts that use emojis and slang to try and relate to the younger generation? I don’t think so. Here’s the deal, people: no one is fooled. Young people aren’t fooled. Old people aren’t fooled (rather, confused). There was a time when teams tried to be…
Read MoreBogdan Bogdanovic 21 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
First item on the agenda: send Bogdan Bogdanovic to the barber. The way he got it cut last time looked fine when it was short, but now that it’s growing out he looks like a combination of an extra from a kid’s TV show and a mushroom. When you’re on TV every other day, you…
Read MoreD.J. Augustin 26 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
It always makes me a little annoyed when I’m looking over the potential videos to do for a night and there at the top of the list is an unexciting role-player like D.J. Augustin. Like, no one good (but still bad enough for my channel) or foreign or young could muster more than 26 points?…
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