Marvin Bagley has been injured for a lot of the season. The Kings haven’t been very good. Are these two things related? On the surface, they almost have to be. Not many teams don’t get worse when you take away their recent 2nd overall pick. I’m not so sure about the correlation (how many wins…
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P.J. Washington 20 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2020)
New money-making idea for the Hornets (since they can’t be making much money from ticket sales right now): P.J.’s PJ’s! Hornets-branded pajamas with P.J. Washington’s name on them! You can sell them in the pro shop at the arena for fifty bucks a pair. You know these would sell well because basketball fans in general…
Read MoreMarkelle Fultz 16 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2020)
Remember when Kevin Durant tweeted about how Markelle Fultz has a nice hesi pull-up jimbo, and if you didn’t understand the terminology then you don’t REALLY hoop? Well, it turns out that Fultz is on the path to recovery from having his shooting mechanics ruined by his mom’s boyfriend, and his hesi pull-up jimbo actually…
Read MoreAnthony Tolliver 16 Points/1 Quarter Full Highlights (1/13/2020)
As recently as two years ago, Anthony “The Tollbooth” Tolliver was a really solid role-player for Detroit. He was hitting tons of threes at a 43 percent clip, making him one of the most efficient players in the league that season. He played the most minutes of his career. His best year as a pro?…
Read MoreWilly Hernangomez 14 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2020)
Another game, another bucketfest (short for “bucket festival” in case you typed that into Google Translate and it got all confused) for Willy Hernangomez. He went 6-for-6 two games ago, followed that performance up with a sick DNP-CD performance off the bench, and now has scored 14 on 7-for-8 from the field. This is, as…
Read MoreTerry Rozier 25 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2020)
People of the future are going to look back on the contract that Terry Rozier received from the Hornets and be like “that was a pretty reasonable contract for a guy who would score almost 20 points per game”. Okay, that’s a lie. No people from the future (I’m defining “future” as “25 years from…
Read MoreDevonte’ Graham 27 Points/10 Assists/8 Threes Full Highlights (1/13/2020)
It had been a while since we had a “vintage” Devonte’ Graham performance. The criteria for such a performance are simple: tons of threes, tons of assists, and not much else. You may dispute the designation of “vintage” on a particular Graham performance on the grounds that he has only been in the league for…
Read MoreNemanja Bjelica Career High 34 Points/8 Threes Full Highlights (1/13/2020)
I’m not an NBA coach, but when you’ve got a guy on your team who is 8 out of 10 from three on the game, and you’re running an out-of-bounds play down by 2 with 1 second left, I make dang well sure that I get the ball to the guy who has already proven…
Read MoreNaz Reid 20 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2020)
15 Timberwolves points in a row for Naz Reid, from 4:05 left in the third to 9:42 left in the fourth, when Josh Okogie proved that someone other than Reid could score for Minnesota. This feat says as much about Reid (he really likes to score) as it does about the Timberwolves (scoring is not…
Read MoreSekou Doumbouya 16 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2020)
With Sekou Doumbouya scoring in double digits (remember: 8 points is double digits as long as you’re using an octal counting system) in every game as a starter so far this season, one has to wonder: where was he for the first 34 games of the season? In the calendar year of 2019, he made…
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