Just to temper everyone’s excitement from this career-high-tying performance: Kyle Anderson went 0-of-6 from the free-throw line during it. That’s the most free throws taken without a make this season, by any player. We could be looking at a career-high-smashing 26-burger. We could legitimately be looking at that RIGHT NOW. What a way to welcome…
Read MoreMalik Monk 21 Points Full HIghlights (12/31/2018)
I would like to apologize to Steve Clifford. I treated him unfairly, thinking that he was blatantly holding down Malik Monk (who I perceived to be a grade-A talent) to further his own nefarious goals of promoting Julyan Stone (the Chris Paul stopper). I was mad on all of Charlotte’s behalf, struggling to understand why…
Read MoreKevin Huerter 22 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (12/31/2018)
I’m not having as much fun with this current Hawks team as I did with last year’s version. That team had Tyler Cavanaugh on it, and he was super fun. Kevin Huerter just isn’t the same. He’s theoretically the same kind of player (the white three-point shooting kind), but I think I just naturally gravitate…
Read MoreBrandon Ingram 21 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
Maybe the Lakers’ broadcast does this all the time, but I found it amusing how they would constantly be cutting to LeBron on the sideline whenever Brandon Ingram (or another young player for the Lakers) would do something exciting. It’s like they’re trying to tell the viewer at home, “LeBron thinks these young players are…
Read MoreLuke Kennard 16 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
New suggestion for the Pistons’ commentators: whenever Luke Kennard knocks down a three-pointer or hits one of his smooth, confident midrange jimbos, you have to yell “He just put them in the KENNEL!” This works on so many levels. It’s like an onion of metaphors where you keep peeling away layers to find more layers:…
Read MoreDwyane Wade 21 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
Is there a reason why the Heat can’t just make their “Vice” color scheme their permanent color scheme forever? It’s obviously a huge hit with fans (these jerseys are the best-selling in the NBA right now), and changing the team colors would symbolically shift away from the “big-three” era to the “just a bunch of…
Read MoreJosh Hart 22 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
I still suck at Fortnite. The only time I ever kill somebody is if I run into a fight in progress and start firing wildly. One time I even managed to kill two people this way. Most of the time, though, I’m running around with no guns and no health trying to evade detection because…
Read MoreKentavious Caldwell-Pope 26 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
It has come out that Kentavious Caldwell-Pope wants to be traded from the Lakers. I don’t know if he’s as gung-ho about his trade request as he used to be, but it looks like he may be acquirable for a team looking for some streaky no-nonsense chucking. So where should he end up? -Houston Rockets….
Read MorePascal Siakam 20 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
For some reason, the Raptors TV people just love using really zoomed-in shots of Pascal Siakam for their broadcast. I thank them for that, because it makes my job of gathering potential thumbnail images much easier, but it’s also kinda weird. And they don’t seem to do it as much with other players, like it’s…
Read MoreDerrick Jones 16 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
The Miami Heat have a new secret weapon: Derrick Jones Jr. using his freakish athleticism to fly in for offensive rebounds. It seems like, in the month of December, you can count on a few buckets per game from him just going in there and grabbing the ball off a miss because no one else…
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