Gerald Henderson answered the call from GM Neil Olshey, silently wondering if something weird was going to happen. “Hey Neil. What’s up?” “Can you come to my office? We need to talk about playoffs, and specifically, about how the team needs your leadership,” Neil said. Relieved that the topic of discussion was not related even…
Read MoreVince Carter 16 Points Full Highlights (4/17/2016)
The NBA has really dropped the ball hard on this one. I don’t know if balls have ever dropped harder. There is STILL no word from the NBA on whether they are currently compiling, with their multitudinous resources, a compilation of all of Vince Carter’s dunks starting from his very first game. A Vince Carter…
Read MoreNicolas Batum 24 Points Full Highlights (4/17/2016)
YAWN. Wake me up when the second round starts. All these blowouts are making DownToBuck one sleepy highlight-maker. And these aren’t even the good kind of blowouts, the kind where a scrub or two go off for 20 points. These are the bad kind, where everyone sucks equally and no highlights need to be done…
Read MoreLuol Deng 31 Points Full Highlights (4/17/2016)
I’m really sorry for all those times that I said the Heat were done earlier in the season. That was stupid of me to say and I really feel bad about it. To be fair to me, though, who could have anticipated that Luol “The Man from Sudan” Deng (listen up basketball-reference you know I…
Read MoreKentavious Caldwell-Pope 21 Points Full Highlights (4/17/2016)
Damn. I really wanted the Pistons to win this game, to show up the hastily-assembled big three of the Cavaliers with a sound display of team play reminiscent of the last Pistons championship team. They didn’t, though, and now we are left with yet another reminder that superstars triumph in almost all scenarios. Oh well….
Read MoreSerge Ibaka 17 Points Full Highlights (4/16/2016)
If you want a metaphor for what the Thunder did to the Mavericks last night, you have to look no further than that one picture of Serge Ibaka wearing pants that aren’t quite totally opaque. That thing in his pants? He just gave it to the Mavericks. Hard. And it’s not his iPhone. I’m not…
Read MoreKent Bazemore 23 Points Full Highlights (4/16/2016)
DeMarre Carroll points tonight: 6 Kent Bazemore points tonight: 23 Pretty damning, right? Those who thought that the Hawks would lose a step without role-player extraordinaire DeMarre Carroll did not anticipate the ease with which Kent Bazemore would step into his spot. The above point totals are not only an indicator of Kent’s superiority, but…
Read MoreCory Joseph 18 Points Full Highlights (4/16/2016)
It’s playoff time! The regular season is over and forgotten, the slates are wiped clean, and anything can happen. Cue up that old NBA on NBA theme song (hell YEAH), and get ready for the NBA postseason’s most enduring tradition: Watching the Raptors disappoint. Seriously, when your leading scorer is Cory “Rings” Joseph, in the…
Read MoreStephen Curry All 402 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2015-2016 Season Three-ilation Part III)
Stephen sat alone in his study, a few nearby candles providing the only illumination by which to read. A heavy rain poured outside the windows, but Stephen was oblivious to all but the arcane words in front of him. “…The success of the spell depends greatlie upon the cycle of the moone, and upon the…
Read MoreStephen Curry All 402 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2015-2016 Season Three-ilation Part II)
The campus of Oxford University was quiet. In the chilly early-morning air, the only disturbance was the nearly inaudible rustling of Stephen’s clothes as he attempted to find a way into the history building. Stephen squinted up at the rows of windows. One of them had to be left open, somewhere; given the temperature in…
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