You might think that my use of the “Okobie” nickname for Josh Okogie, which draw parallels with the late great Kobe Bean Bryant, is done in jest or in mockery. I assure you that this is not the case. Unlike most of the nicknames I assign players, which are humorous in intent and often intended…
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Nemanja Bjelica 22 Points Full Highlights (1/20/2020)
The full, unabridged title of this video is “Nemanja Bjelica 22 Points/1 Game-Winner Stolen From Him by the Fact that His Teammates Can’t Play Defense (1/20/2020)”. Nemanja Bjelica made a clutch bucket off a rebound of his own miss with two seconds left to put the Kings up by two. Bjelica is so cerebral that…
Read MoreEnes Kanter 18 Points Full Highlights (1/20/2020)
Enes Kanter scored eighteen points in the first half of this game, most of them on hustle buckets (offensive rebounds and the like). You can crow all you want about Kanter’s lack of defensive ability, but you can’t ignore his ability to make bitchmeat out of opposing centers on his way to grabbing five hundred…
Read MoreEric Paschall 22 Points Full Highlights (1/20/2020)
Everybody knows about the philosophical concept of “Pascal’s Wager”, which makes some tired and obsolete argument about the existence/non-existence of God. Pascal’s Wager is lame and boring and there’s no need to discuss it anymore because people smarter than us have already dissected it into dust. Not many people are aware of the less-used axiom…
Read MoreAlec Burks 33 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (1/20/2020)
There is, apparently, a tentative return date set for Stephen Curry. Maybe it’s not even tentative. Maybe it’s REAL. His return probably won’t lead to a whole ton more wins for the Warriors at this point (gotta keep the tank rolling), but it does put his teammates on notice: if you’re going to score 40…
Read MoreJaVale McGee 18 Points/3 Blocks/1 Three Full Highlights (1/20/2020)
Unlike most JaVale McGee highlight videos, which are a smorgasbord of audiovisual excitement, this one seems kind of…muted. I think it’s partially because Marv Albert and Chris Webber are not the most over-the-top excitable commentary duo out there, but it’s mostly because the Lakers just got booty-blasted basically from start to finish in this one….
Read MoreGeorges Niang 15 Points Full Highlights (1/20/2020)
I would like to issue an OFFICIAL DTB APOLOGY to all fans of Georges Niang. On the night of January 10, 2020, Niang scored fifteen points on five-of-nine three-point shooting in a Jazz victory over the Washington Wizards. This performance by Niang was similar, nay, nearly identical, to a 15-point performance of his which occurred…
Read MoreTony Snell 16 Points Full Highlights (1/20/2020)
Since I just got done making a Nicolo Melli highlight video, it got me thinking: how popular would Tony Snell be if he were actually Italian and his name was Antonio Snelli? Italians aren’t overwhelming in their support of their countrymen in the same way that, say, Serbs, Croats, or Lithuanians are. Still, my videos…
Read MoreNicolo Melli 15 Points Full Highlights (1/20/2020)
Nicolo Melli: is he Andrea Bargnani 2.0? Let’s run down a list of Bargnani’s most notable attributes to see if Mell in a Cell can stack up: Italian? Check. Shoots threes? Check. Shoots midrange jimbos? Check. Too soft/slow to play meaningful defense at the NBA level? Check. Draft bust? Check. (Melli was such a bust…
Read MoreDillon Brooks 31 Points Full Highlights (1/20/2020)
The TNT commentator’s claim that Dillon Brooks had scored twenty or more points in eight straight games seemed plausible to me, given the unreasonable burden that has been placed on me as the internetubes’ sole provider of Dillon Brooks highlight videos, but I also thought I would remember a streak like that, so I went…
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