Since Enes Kanter played this entire game with a painful shoulder, it’s impossible for me (a narrative-starved pseudojournalist who is tasked with writing something meaningful about him) to not draw comparisons to Michael Jordan’s infamous “Flu Game”. So that’s what I’m going to do right now. Compare MJ’s “Flu Game” to Kanter’s “Shoulder Game”. One…
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Nikola Jokic 37 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (4/29/2019)
I think it’s fair to say that Nikola Jokic has been the best player of the playoffs so far. The so-called “playoffs MVP”, which should absolutely be an award. Maybe you could make an argument for Kawhi Leonard, but recency bias is a real thing, and that dude only scored 35 tonight compared to Jokic’s…
Read MorePascal Siakam 21 Points Full Highlights (4/29/2019)
Pascal Siakam needed 25 shots in this game to score his 21 points. That’s not good efficiency, in fact, that’s bad efficiency, but I’ll let it slide since he did some good things late. Also, if Siakam is going to be the second option on offense, you expect these kinds of games from him every…
Read MoreAndre Iguodala 14 Points Full Highlights (4/28/2019)
In very different circumstances from game six against the Clippers, this game saw the Warriors achieve a rare “double-digit scoring game from someone not named Curry, Thompson, Green, or Durant” and actually benefit greatly from it. Andre Iguodala followed up his meaningless fifteen points from last game with a very meaningful fourteen points against the…
Read MoreEric Gordon 27 Points Full Highlights (4/28/2019)
Eric Gordon solidified his reputation as “not even a great three-point shooter (despite what his volume would seem to indicate)” by going four of thirteen on three-pointers this game. The past few seasons, he’s been a slightly above-average three-point shooter, but, being on D’Antoni-coached teams, he’s had a green light that’s so green that it…
Read MoreJaylen Brown 19 Points Full Highlights (4/28/2019)
I would like to start off this description by stating unequivocally, without equivocation, that I am not “salty”, “butthurt”, or otherwise angry about the outcome of game one between the Celtics and the Bucks. The Celtics had a good gameplan, they executed it well, and they won. That’s all there is to it. Since I…
Read MoreBryn Forbes 19 Points Full Highlights (4/27/2019)
I totally understand if Spurs fans don’t want to watch this video. Some things have happened in the past 24 hours that make it so that maybe watching highlight videos of Spurs players is not what they want to do. That’s fine. This vid of Bryn Forbes scoring 19 points will be here whenever they…
Read MoreRudy Gay 21 Points Full Highlights (4/27/2019)
Had the Spurs won (spoiler alert: they didn’t), Rudy Gay would’ve been the hero of this game. He did a bunch of things, not just this game, but in the whole series, that would’ve elevated him to temporary Duncan status in the hearts of Spurs fans. Heroic deed one: he scored 9 straight points to…
Read MoreNikola Jokic Triple Double 21 Pts/15 Rebs/10 Asts Full Highlights (4/27/2019)
The last time the Nuggets were in the playoffs, George Karl was the coach, Masai Ujiri was the GM, and their best scorer, Ty Lawson, averaged 16 points per game, and their best feature was the incredible lob chemistry between Andre Miller and JaVale McGee. That team lost in the first round to the Warriors…
Read MorePascal Siakam 29 Points Full Highlights (4/27/2019)
I don’t know if anybody outside of the country of Cameroon was really paying attention to this, but this Raptors vs. Sixers matchup allows us to enjoy a sub-matchup, if you will: the clash between Cameroonian Pascal Siakam and Cameroonian Joel Embiid. In case you haven’t looked at the box-score yet, or you’re from the…
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