This is part two of my tell-all oral history which goes into the gritty, unsavory details of the NBA’s most polarizing hairstyle. To support this kind of hard-hitting journalistic excellence, consider a donation to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/downtobuck — RAY YOUNG: When Trae was a junior in high school, I caught a glimpse of his scalp…
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Trae Young All 205 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Three-ilation Part I)
The subject of Trae Young’s hair has always captured the imaginations of the public. However, rumors and hearsay often obscure the truth. The astonishing facts of Young’s hairstyle have only ever been known in tantalizing fragments…until today. After spending months interviewing those closest to the rising star for the Atlanta Hawks, the hard-hitting NBA journalist…
Read MoreReggie Jackson 26 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (4/9/2020)
https://youtu.be/wmn5ZutjFTo There is a very real possibility that when all is said and done, when the fat lady has sung (am I still allowed to use that turn of phrase in 2021????? please don’t cancel me), Reggie Jackson will have been the starting point guard on a championship team. I can hear the wails and…
Read MoreMatt Thomas All 35 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Three-ilation)
Matt Thomas looked at his phone with scorn. He had, out of habit, opened his mobile banking app, and now the screen was showing him a checking account balance that was healthy but hadn’t increased at all over the past month. He knew that he should be grateful for the financial security that being an…
Read MoreDTB’s Best NBA Dunks of the Month (March 2020 Dunkilation)
It’s pretty obvious that we’re not going to get any more regular-season basketball this season. That sucks. Luckily, there was enough basketball played in the month of March to be able to put together a dunkilation which isn’t totally pathetic. Sure, I included some dunks here that would have normally gotten cut, but are you…
Read MoreNikola Jokic All 15 Dunks Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Dunkilation)
Nikola Jokic checked his phone for perhaps the twentieth time that day, and was again disappointed that there were no new voicemails for him. Despite the expensive device not having left his side for even one second during the past two weeks, he was paranoid that he had somehow missed an incoming call, a call…
Read MoreDTB’s Top 100 Free Throws of the 2019-20 NBA Season (2019-20 Season Freethrowilation)
One may not think that free throws would be, on their own, an acceptable subject of an NBA highlight video. And if you had confronted me on the subject not two weeks ago, I would have agreed with that viewpoint. After all, my disdain for free throws is well-publicized. Frequently I will bemoan the fact…
Read MoreDTB’s Top 100 Hook Shots of the 2019-20 NBA Season (2019-20 Season Hookilation)
I sigh contentedly and lean back into the soft embrace of my desk chair, a chair whose sensual caress could never be matched by a woman. The editing process is complete for my video depicting the hundred best midrange jumpers of the 2019-20 NBA season, and it now eagerly consumes CPU cycles as it renders…
Read MoreDTB’s Top 100 Midrange Jumpers of the 2019-20 NBA Season (2019-20 Season Jumperilation)
The classic “Top 100 [x]” concept is familiar and comforting to the average NBA fan. By ranking something in such a straightforward way, order is brought to the jumbled chaos that is inherent in all sports analysis. However, under the prevailing paradigm, the variable [x] doesn’t have many possible values: “players”, “dunks”, “game-winners”, and “crossovers”…
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