I’ve always said that Brook Lopez is underutilized in Milwaukee. People who claim that he’s “playing the best basketball of his career” are getting swept up in the excitement of him jacking threes from just inside half-court. The more accurate statement is “he’s playing on the best team of his career”. It’s understandable, though. Not…
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Maurice Harkless 17 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (5/14/2019)
The problem, as I see it, for the Trailblazers in this series is that they have to start both Maurice Harkless and Al-Farouq Aminu. Mike Breen might call them “wildcards”, which is framing it in the best way possible, but if I were an elite playoff-caliber team, I’d want to replace one of those dudes,…
Read MoreSerge Ibaka 17 Points Full Highlights (5/12/2019)
Serge “Ibaka Gaijin” Ibaka was literally the only Raptor aside from Kawhi Leonard to show up on offense this game. Kawhi had 41 points, including the game-winner as time elapsed, but he had to take 39 shots because his teammates were being useless bumnuggets. Ibaka had a good game, scoring 17 on ten attempts, but…
Read MoreNikola Jokic 29 Points/4 Blocks Full Highlights (5/12/2019)
The hugs had been exchanged. The tears had been shed. The realizations had been accepted: there would be no more basketball for this Nuggets team. Their dream of a championship, which had been faint at the outset of the season but had grown brighter as the wins rolled in, was extinguished. One player stayed back…
Read MoreJames Harden All 378 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part III)
This is the third and final installment of my groundbreaking oral history of James Hardens’ beard. Hundreds of hours of deep, heart-to-heart interviews were distilled into a concise narrative that sheds some much-needed light on the mysterious mass of tangled black facial hair. Enjoy. (if you want more hard-hitting journalism from DownToBuck, donate to my…
Read MoreJames Harden All 378 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part II)
This is the second installment of a three-part oral history exploring the story of James Harden’s beard, as told by the people who were there. Support my fact-finding endeavors by donating to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/downtobuck PART II: ORIGIN OF THE BEARD JAMES HARDEN: It wasn’t until high school that I had to start shaving my…
Read MoreJames Harden All 378 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part I)
James Harden is notable for many things: his stepback three-pointer that looks like a travel. His ability to enrage opposing fanbases with uncanny foul-drawing ability. The fact that Sam Presti deemed his value in a trade to be equivalent to that of Kevin Martin. That funny commercial where he sang about taking his shirt off…
Read MoreP.J. Tucker 15 Points Full Highlights (5/10/2019)
The Rockets season is over. This isn’t as tragic as the way they lost last year, which was a top-five tragic occurrence in the NBA ever, but it still must be sad for Houston fans. They just kind of sputtered out, even playing at home in an elimination game with the opposing team missing its…
Read MoreKevon Looney 14 Points Full Highlights (5/10/2019)
It took Kevin Durant being injured, but the Warriors finally got a decent performance from one of their bench players. And that means I finally get to make a Warriors vid for someone other than Andre Iguodala who, by the way, I’m FRICKIN’ tired of. I don’t even like that dude. Not like I enjoy…
Read MoreAndre Iguodala 17 Points/5 Steals Full Highlights (5/10/2019)
I think I am enjoying the Warriors a little bit more now that Kevin Durant is injured temporarily. DeMarcus Cousins going down was the first step to making them seem less like a ridiculous superteam that is ruining the NBA forever, and Kevin Durant following his lead is the second step to making them seem…
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