This video was made under false pretenses. In my unending naivety, I assumed that the box-score for this game would be correct, and that Trae Young had a near-double-double with 21 points and nine assists. Foolishly, I took the box-score at face value, thinking that the statistics it portrayed would be accurate.
That was not the case, my friends. Rather than being one shy of a double-double with nine assists, Young, in reality, had only eight assists. The “assist” to Alex Poythress at 1:42 of this video was credited to Young when it should have gone either to Alex Len or to nobody at all. Young was standing near the play, but did not touch the ball in the moments of time before Poythress scored on a layup.
I am now convinced that Adam Silver is deliberating altering box-scores in order to sabotage highlight makers like myself. If we upload videos that clearly contain clips that do not depict the actions of the player being highlighted, viewers as a whole will turn away from the amateur productions found on various YouTube channels in favor of the official highlight videos found on the NBA website. This misattributed assist is just the first step; soon there will be field goals credited to the wrong player, field goals made up out of thin air, and, finally, the actual results of games will be altered by Silver’s maniacal effort to eradicate the YouTube highlight cabal.
I’m ready, Adam. My vigilance will never waver.