I am still waiting for Kris Dunn to supplant Ricky Rubio as the Timberwolves’ starting point guard. That is what I was told would happen. I was told that Ricky was redundant. I was told that Ricky should be traded and Dunn should start right away. I was told that Dunn would complete Minnesota’s young…
Read MoreReggie Jackson 27 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2017)
Pistons players held a team-only meeting to discuss Reggie Jackson’s return to the lineup and their subsequent stagnation as a team. That much we know. What we don’t know is what exactly happened during said meeting. I side with Reggie on this one, though. I mean, if his teammates simply accepted the clear fact that…
Read MoreTim Hardaway Jr. Career High 29 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2017)
Attention Hawks commentators: you are not allowed to call Tim Hardaway Jr. “Timmy”. You are especially not allowed to call him that while he is facing the San Antonio Spurs. Have some god-damn respect. Now that that’s out of the away: how about Tim “Not Timmy” Hardaway Jr. tonight? It’s not a performance anywhere close…
Read MoreDTB’s Best NBA Dunks of the Month (December 2016 Dunkilation)
Nick walked into his house and immediately headed up the stairs to his bedroom, where he flung his backpack carelessly on the floor. There was homework in there waiting to be completed, but Nick had a getting-home-from-school routine that could not be bypassed. A routine which involved logging on to his computer and settling down…
Read MoreDTB’s Official NBA Power Rankings (Week 9)
This week’s biggest busts: Knicks -7, Clippers -5, Mavericks -4 This week’s biggest successes: Wizards +6, Jazz +4, Pelicans +3 1. Golden State Warriors (29-5, 2-1 this week) (last week: #1 [3-0] +0) “Steph’s brand is sinking fast,” said the sharply-dressed man, sitting in a conference room with other sharply-dressed men. “He is no longer…
Read MoreJoakim Noah 15 Points Full Highlights (12/31/2016)
Joakim Noah’s contract rightly catches a lot of heat for its length, its size, and its general awfulness. But we have to be fair to Noah: he’s playing better right now than he did last year, and he might even be better now than he was two years ago, so the contract could be worse….
Read MoreVince Carter 14 Points Full Highlights (12/31/2016)
If I’m a Kings fan, I’m pissed off right now. Actually, it’s morning now here in America, so the anger has probably subsided. But I definitely would have been pissed off as heck last night. The Grizzlies set their franchise record with seventeen made three-pointers, fielding a team that, on the surface, doesn’t seem like…
Read MoreJaMychal Green 18 Points Full Highlights (12/31/2016)
JaMychal Green made four three-pointers in this game. If he wasn’t a stretch-four before, he definitely is now. And, not only is he a really real stretch-four, but he is officially, by no stretch of the imagination, one of the PREMIER stretch-fours in the NBA. DTB’S OFFICIAL PREDICTION: Some team will hype themselves too hard…
Read MoreAnthony Tolliver 16 Points Full Highlights (12/31/2016)
Sources within the Kings organization have furnished me with the new year’s resolutions of every player on the team. I am providing this list of resolutions with absolutely no redactions, corrections, or other edits. DeMarcus Cousins: Beat up that reporter for real this time Rudy Gay: Get traded Darren Collison: Don’t beat up any more…
Read MoreRyan Anderson 25 Points Full Highlights (12/31/2016)
Last year I made a compilation of all of Ryan Anderson’s stepback and fadeaways from the midrange area. I called it a jumperilation. It was sick. It was, God forgive me for uttering these words, Dirk-esque. And, if present trends continue, there’s not going to be another one this year. Ryan Anderson has essentially halved…
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