I will admit that, in the past, I have been too loose with the term “Revenge Game”. When a player plays well against a team he used to be on, I automatically assume it is a Revenge Game even if there were no hard feelings between team and player. Going forward, I will strive to be more responsible with my choice of words, so that the impact of the term is not diluted.
However, Spencer “Din-Dins” Dinwiddie’s 27-point demonstration against the Bulls fits every criteria for a REVENGE GAME. That is because he was traded by the Pistons to the Bulls (for Cameron Bairstow, who is probably averaging 3/5/1 in the ABL), who quickly waived him. They then signed him to a camp deal which also ended with him being waived. So he was waived TWICE by a team and didn’t even appear in a game for them. The Bulls didn’t even give him a chance to see if he would work out.
But the Nets did, and now Din-Dins is a beast, and the Bulls are struggling with a subpar collection of flawed point guards. Din-Dins drove home the magnitude of their error by dropping 27 points on them and sinking the game-clinching free throws. Meanwhile, Gar and Pax were sequestered in a conference room somewhere surrounded by disordered transaction paperwork, pointing fingers at each other and each accusing the other of being the one who gave up so quickly on the sexily-goateed Dinwiddie.
Those are Gar’s words, not mine. Dinwiddie’s goatee is handsome, bot not sexy.