Everybody knows about how Davis Bertans got mega-snubbed for the three-point contest last season. His percentages were sick bordering on naughty, but his volume was neither sick nor naughty, so they snubbed him. Exactly who “they” are in this scenario, I’m not too sure, which is probably a good thing because I was getting ready to personally exact some vigilante justice on them for their heinous snubbage of the Latvian Laser.
Now the snub has been unsnubbed because Bertans is OFFICIALLY going to be competing in the three-point contest during All-Star weekend. Honestly, this was such a no-brainer decision that nobody should be praised for making it. It was about as obvious a nomination as putting Klay Thompson or Steph Curry in the contest. If they had somehow snubbed Bertans again, I wouldn’t have been surprised if the NBA league offices had been swarmed, ransacked, and burned to the ground by an unruly mob of Latvians armed with nothing but their fists and a whole lot of rage.
And I would have been right there with them, swinging my skinny fists at anybody that looked like they might be an NBA employee and cheering with delirious, drunken ecastasy as the entire building went up in glorious flames. And while the cleansing inferno destroyed the corrupt institution that desired more than nothing to prevent Latvians from attaining their earned glory, I would run into the burning wreckage to rescue any game tape I could find.