Bryn Forbes is averaging 12 points per game for the San Antonio Spurs after going undrafted a few years ago. If something like this was happening while the Spurs were winning all those championships, we would never hear the end of it, about how good the Spurs were at scouting international talent (because let’s face…
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OG Anunoby 21 Points Full Highlights (12/21/2018)
Looks like we just found what OG Anunoby needs to be a successful player in the NBA: to be the starter. He started a majority of the games for Toronto last year, including all their playoff games. And he was good. Not great, but good. His raw stats didn’t do justice to how much he…
Read MoreLauri Markkanen 32 Points Full Highlights (12/21/2018)
Almost a quarter of the runtime of this video is devoted to Lauri Markkanen dunking on Nikola Vucevic and the ensuing replays/amusing commentary from Stacey King. They even brought out the Poster Machine! I guess I had forgotten that the Poster Machine was an actual thing they did and not just a fun turn of…
Read MoreEmmanuel Mudiay 32 Points Full Highlights (12/21/2018)
Man, at some point I should stop being surprised when Emmanuel Mudiay scores 30 or more, because he’s doing it regularly now, but it’s insane to me every time. No one has yet satisfactorily answered my question of “how is this happening?”. I suspect that that’s because there are no answers that make any sort…
Read MoreRodions Kurucs 24 Points Full Highlights (12/21/2018)
It is well known that Knicks fans, in their galling hubris, booed Kristaps Porzingis when he got drafted. Or, if they weren’t booing, they were crying. Did Nets fans do similarly for Rodions Kurucs when he got drafted? I would guess not, because he was the 40th pick, not the 4th, and because the Nets…
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