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Bruce Brown wasn’t even in the rotation for the Nets at the beginning of the season. He was just sitting on the bench contemplating the ever-inflating price of concession stand nachos. Caris Levert and Spencer Dinwiddie were taking all of his minutes. After a promising sophomore season in Detroit, it was sort of maybe looking like Brown’s NBA career was getting flushed down the toilet like so much…brown.
Then some things happened that were in Brown’s favor. One, Caris Levert got traded. Two, Spencer Dinwiddie tore his ACL. Three, Landry Shamet inexplicably lost his ability to shoot. Four, James Harden was acquired, and his presence just makes it that much easier for everybody else to score. Five, Brown sucker-punched Kevin Durant in practice in order to claim his rightful spot at the top of the pecking order. Six, I don’t have a sixth thing to type here, but six seemed like the threshold between “DTB isn’t really making a good point here” and “DTB is making an excellent point, as he always does.”
After all those things happened, Brown became a more important part of the rotation, and now he’s dropped a career high 29 points, an amount of points which handily outdoes his previous career high of 22. Is he the primary backup guard in Brooklyn right now? You bet he is. Landry Shamet can screw off. Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot? Screw off all the way to France. Tyler Johnson? Tell that overgrown hobbit to go back to the shire. Andre Roberson? Uh, you can’t fool me basketball-reference, that guy’s dead. Dead guys aren’t allowed to be on NBA rosters. Brown definitely doesn’t need to worry about him. He just needs to worry about going out on the court and putting himself in position to receive passes from James Harden.
At points last season, Brown flashed some significant point guard skills, but forget about that. We want him to flash his bucket-getting skills, and I have to say, he flashed the entire borough of Brooklyn tonight.
Lately I’ve seen kids using the term “goated” to describe stuff. Is Bruce Brown goated? Yeah. I’m pretty sure he is. Watch this video and see for yourself.