The Raptors commentators claimed that Fred VanVleet’s 7 three-pointers this game were a career-high. Now, let’s just get this out of the way before anyone gets the wrong idea here: they’re totally wrong. Because I DISTINCTLY remember a playoff game against the Bucks where he hit 10 threes in a Raptors victory. Don’t believe me?…
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Nicolas Claxton 14 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (1/18/2020)
Wow, I didn’t realize how marginalized Nicolas Claxton has been recently. I knew he was getting decent minutes for a stretch in November, but since that month ended? Until tonight, he’d appeared in ONE game. Apparently he had “hamstring soreness”, but I bet literally every player could claim that ailment and have it not be…
Read MoreGary Trent Career High 30 Points Full Highlights (1/18/2020)
Things have been going really wrong for the Trailblazers all year. A few things have gone right (signing Carmelo Anthony actually worked out, kinda), but lately, the pace of wrong things has only quickened. At this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised if they had to play the last 10 games of the season with only…
Read MoreJordan Poole 21 Points Full Highlights (1/18/2020)
It’s been fun watching Jordan Poole miss shots at a historic rate, but now I feel like it would be more fun to see him start making a bunch of shots instead. There’s a basic human psychological need to see balls go in holes. That’s why people watch basketball. And that’s why people (mostly) don’t…
Read MoreMikal Bridges Career High 26 Points Full Highlights (1/18/2020)
The Celtics may have had Marcus Smart and his 11 threes and his career-high 37 points, but it was no match for Phoenix’s Mikal Bridges and his 6 threes and his career-high 26 points. There may have been other factors at play (I’m looking at the box-score and apparently Bridges was only tied for second…
Read MoreSviatoslav Mykhailiuk Career High 25 Points Full Highlights (1/18/2020)
Kind reminder to Lakers fans: you are DISALLOWED from viewing this video. The glorious sight of Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk scoring 25 points in a real NBA game is something that should never grace your eyes. Not after what you did to him. Not after you treated him like a “meme” player. He is not a meme…
Read MoreMarkelle Fultz 23 Points/1 Dunk Full Highlights (1/18/2020)
Markelle Fultz has scaled the first step on the near-infinite staircase to living up to being the number-one overall pick. Examples of some of the steps that appear on this staircase: Step 1: become an acceptable free-throw shooter (this one he’s already done) Step 2: become an acceptable three-point shooter Step 3: play effectively off…
Read MoreJarrett Culver Career High 26 Points Full Highlights (1/18/2020)
Two very strange things happened in this game for the Timberwolves: -Jarrett Culver scored 26 points (which is strange because he’s not a good scorer) -Andrew Wiggins got a triple-double (which is strange because he’s not a good anything-er) Those two strange things combined to form a very ordinary Timberwolves occurrence: a loss. Oftentimes one…
Read MoreMarcus Smart Career High 37 Points/11 Threes/8 Assists Full Highlights (1/18/2020)
An unmoving, unclothed body lay sprawled on the marble floor. For some time, it continued to lie there, but the passage of this time was meaningless, for, in that place, the causality which served as the foundation of all existence was divorced from the flow of time. Then, the man awoke, and, in confusion, got…
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