The lanky Frenchman reclined in comfort, surrounded by the peaceful sounds and enticing scents of his well-tended Victorian garden. One of the luxurious sitting-room couches had been wrestled out of its usual place to be brought to this spot among the hedges, flowers, and decorative ferns. The fine piece of furniture would have to be…
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Ersan Ilyasova 17 Points/3 Charges Taken Full Highlights (5/17/2019)
What is there even to say about Ersan Ilyasova. I’m not usually one to run short on words, but I can’t think of anything to put here. And that’s fine: this is the kind of video that needs no accompaniment. Let Ersan do the talking. Fine, I’ll try and put some stuff here. Giannis Antetokounmpo…
Read MoreNorman Powell 14 Points Full Highlights (5/17/2019)
Norman “Bucks Killer” Powell has a long history of killing the Bucks. This is not an unusual phenomenon; every team has a player who just randomly goes of on them all the time for no reason, though the Raptors seem to have more than the league average. Thon Maker (so happy he’s gone he’d probably…
Read MoreKevon Looney 14 Points Full Highlights (5/16/2019)
Andrew Bogut is currently the starting center for the Warriors. That’s cool, and it brings a connection to the older days of Warriors basketball when Kevin Durant wasn’t around being an iso chucker, which is something that almost everybody can appreciate. But I don’t really see the point in playing him only a few minutes…
Read MoreSeth Curry 16 Points/4 Steals Full Highlights (5/16/2019)
When ESPN deigned to show us what we signed up for instead of full-screen shots of Dell and Sonya Curry getting interviewed by an insufferable Doris Burke for half an hour, quite an exciting game happened. Not as exciting as pondering the possibility that Seth Curry and Stephen Curry are somehow related, or talking about…
Read MoreBrook Lopez 29 Points/4 Blocks Full Highlights (5/15/2019)
I’ve always said that Brook Lopez is underutilized in Milwaukee. People who claim that he’s “playing the best basketball of his career” are getting swept up in the excitement of him jacking threes from just inside half-court. The more accurate statement is “he’s playing on the best team of his career”. It’s understandable, though. Not…
Read MoreMaurice Harkless 17 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (5/14/2019)
The problem, as I see it, for the Trailblazers in this series is that they have to start both Maurice Harkless and Al-Farouq Aminu. Mike Breen might call them “wildcards”, which is framing it in the best way possible, but if I were an elite playoff-caliber team, I’d want to replace one of those dudes,…
Read MoreSerge Ibaka 17 Points Full Highlights (5/12/2019)
Serge “Ibaka Gaijin” Ibaka was literally the only Raptor aside from Kawhi Leonard to show up on offense this game. Kawhi had 41 points, including the game-winner as time elapsed, but he had to take 39 shots because his teammates were being useless bumnuggets. Ibaka had a good game, scoring 17 on ten attempts, but…
Read MoreNikola Jokic 29 Points/4 Blocks Full Highlights (5/12/2019)
The hugs had been exchanged. The tears had been shed. The realizations had been accepted: there would be no more basketball for this Nuggets team. Their dream of a championship, which had been faint at the outset of the season but had grown brighter as the wins rolled in, was extinguished. One player stayed back…
Read MoreJames Harden All 378 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part III)
This is the third and final installment of my groundbreaking oral history of James Hardens’ beard. Hundreds of hours of deep, heart-to-heart interviews were distilled into a concise narrative that sheds some much-needed light on the mysterious mass of tangled black facial hair. Enjoy. (if you want more hard-hitting journalism from DownToBuck, donate to my…
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