For some reason I have this idea stuck in my head that JaKarr Samspon was supposed to be in China. Was that this off-season? Or the off-season before that? Or during one of the NBA seasons? There’s this inkling in my mind that some team (Bulls? Pacers?) rescued him from a stint in China where he would have averaged a LeBron-esque 25/8/8 for some bottom-feeding team in the CBA.
I’m too busy to look it up right now. It’s easier to speculate on things that are half-remembered than to actually consult the Googz and return to my description-writing duties armed with facts. But the factual fact that I definitely know about JaKarr Sampson is that he is currently playing a small role with the Indiana Pacers. Does he deserve a bigger role? No, probably not, but it’s fun when he randomly gets fifteen minutes in a game rather than his normal DNP-CDs (the “CDS” stands for “crooked dental situation”).
Also, I would like to take this opportunity to issue an OFFICIAL DTB APOLOGY: Back on November 6, 2019, JaKarr Sampson scored fourteen points on 7-of-12 shooting. Yet, for reasons that are unknown even to myself, a highlight video was not made for this performance. If there are any JaKarr Sampson fans out there who are holding a grudge against me for my extremely unfair treatment of him, I hope that the video you are watching now, which also depicts Sampson scoring fourteen points, will serve as a starting point to heal those dire wounds.
I’m so sorry.