Attention future parents: if you think that your future child has any chance at all of being a high draft pick in the NBA, take great care in picking a name for that child that cannot be easily transformed to contain the word “bust”. Write the name down on paper and then try to replace different syllables with that word. If any of the syllable replacements is relatively easy to come up with, you have to pick a different name. Otherwise, ethnically deficient internet commentators like myself will have even more opportunities to call your child a bust.
Justise Winslow’s dad, unfortunately, had his kid about 22 years too early to hear my urgent message, and now his son is paying the price, because I call him “Bustise” pretty much every chance I get. But that just emphasizes how important my warning is to all the future mommies and daddies. If I routinely call Justise “Bustise”, even after he has a good game, you can bet that I will also be just as ruthless with your child.
As I mentioned, it’s a bit uncharitable of me to be so hard on Bustise after he had his best game of the season, but I’m just calling it like I see it. A guy shooting the same percentage from the field as he does from three (roughly 38%) will never be as useful as you want him to be, even if he plays defense and has some okay playmaking instincts.