Jarrett Jack got waived by the Pelicans before the season started after a reasonably successful season with the Knicks. And with his waivement, the most punchable face in the league departed, never to be seen again. First Corey Maggette, then Matt Barnes, and now Jack, the visages which I most want to smash with my…
Read MoreKyle Korver 18 Points Full Highlights (12/21/2018)
When Kyle Korver was drafted, way back in the year 2003, the Nets, the team who drafted him, immediately traded him for 125,000 dollars cash. They then drove down to their local office supply store and used that cash to buy the fanciest copy machine they could find. Sounds like a lopsided trade, right? Korver…
Read MoreBryn Forbes 22 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (12/21/2018)
Bryn Forbes is averaging 12 points per game for the San Antonio Spurs after going undrafted a few years ago. If something like this was happening while the Spurs were winning all those championships, we would never hear the end of it, about how good the Spurs were at scouting international talent (because let’s face…
Read MoreOG Anunoby 21 Points Full Highlights (12/21/2018)
Looks like we just found what OG Anunoby needs to be a successful player in the NBA: to be the starter. He started a majority of the games for Toronto last year, including all their playoff games. And he was good. Not great, but good. His raw stats didn’t do justice to how much he…
Read MoreLauri Markkanen 32 Points Full Highlights (12/21/2018)
Almost a quarter of the runtime of this video is devoted to Lauri Markkanen dunking on Nikola Vucevic and the ensuing replays/amusing commentary from Stacey King. They even brought out the Poster Machine! I guess I had forgotten that the Poster Machine was an actual thing they did and not just a fun turn of…
Read MoreEmmanuel Mudiay 32 Points Full Highlights (12/21/2018)
Man, at some point I should stop being surprised when Emmanuel Mudiay scores 30 or more, because he’s doing it regularly now, but it’s insane to me every time. No one has yet satisfactorily answered my question of “how is this happening?”. I suspect that that’s because there are no answers that make any sort…
Read MoreRodions Kurucs 24 Points Full Highlights (12/21/2018)
It is well known that Knicks fans, in their galling hubris, booed Kristaps Porzingis when he got drafted. Or, if they weren’t booing, they were crying. Did Nets fans do similarly for Rodions Kurucs when he got drafted? I would guess not, because he was the 40th pick, not the 4th, and because the Nets…
Read MoreJ.J. Barea 19 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (12/20/2018)
J.J. Barea is a great backup point guard. One of the best. His pull-up midrange jimbos are among the wettest in the league. It doesn’t even matter that he’s way shorter than the average NBA player, because his lack of height doesn’t seem to stop him from getting his shot off or seeing the right…
Read MoreLuka Doncic 32 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (12/20/2018)
Astute viewers will notice something absent from the title of this video. That’s right: I neglected to include the qualifier “Career High”, even though 32 points is indeed Luka Doncic’s career high in points scored. After much introspection and soul-searching, I was able to accumulate in one place enough of the mysterious substance called “optimism”…
Read MoreDe’Aaron Fox 28 Points/12 Assists Full Highlights (12/19/2018)
Thanks to basketball-reference, a website without which I would probably die, I just found out that today is De’Aaron Fox turned 21 years old today. In America, a person’s 21st birthday means a lot because it’s the age when you can legally drink alcoholic beverages. So, when the clock struck midnight, Fox magically transformed from…
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