“Hey, great game Dion,” congratulated Pablo, the janitor who cleaned up the locker room after games. “I keep telling my son, if he wants to learn how to do a stepback, all he has to do is watch you.” He was leaning on his mop now, reliving his memories of his son’s basketball exploits. Dion…
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Giannis Antetokounmpo 19 Points/3 Dunks Full Highlights (2/22/2015)
Giannis examined the obsidian door closely, searching for a way to go past it, to open it, to somehow reach the secrets held behind it. Running his slender fingers delicately across the finely-detailed engravings, he looked back in his memory for any hints that might have been given to him. However, there was nothing. The…
Read MoreTim Frazier 13 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (2/20/2015)
Having impaled the body of the lead NBA copyright enforcer, I have no time for celebration. I must find where Dawk Ins is being detained. I dial his number, not bothering to find another phone. The NBA already knows about me. Just as I had hoped, the call is answered, and a gruff voice gloats,…
Read MoreTyler Zeller 22 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (2/20/2015)
“Squad, take down this door. DownToBuck is going down just like his little friend.” The NBA enforcers are at my door, just as Dawk Ins had warned me. I look down at my cat. “Japurri, to your station,” I command. “If war is what they desire, war is what they shall receive.” I put on…
Read MoreAl-Farouq Aminu 17 Points Full Highlights (2/20/2015)
I sit in front of my computer, editing highlight videos as I do every Saturday morning. When my phone rings, I have no idea how soon my life will change completely. After trimming the current clip to the perfect length, preserving the audio while only showing a second of the player running back down the…
Read MoreBrandon Knight 34 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (12/23/2014)
Illuminated only by the glowing light of his laptop screen, Brandon Knight carefully scrolled through her Facebook photos, one by one. The friend request with Bucks cheerleader Kyra had been consummated not ten minutes prior, and now he had access to all of her bikini photos. Hundreds of them, perhaps thousands. There had even been…
Read MoreBrandan Wright 12 Points/4 Dunks/3 Blocks Full Highlights (11/22/2014)
Brandan Wright reclined lazily on his golden throne, a throne which rose above everything else in the hall. It glowed with an inner light, lending Brandan a halo that made him look almost angelic. A jewel-studded crown was perched on his head, and in his hand, he wielded a scepter on top of which was…
Read MoreMarc Gasol Career High 32 Points Full Highlights (11/21/2014)
Marc Gasol fiddled around on his computer, but he found himself unable to stay on any one webpage for more than a minute. His mind was far and away in another place. In the kitchen, he could hear that unmistakable whirring, the siren call of the microwave, and he knew that he would not be…
Read MoreBradley Beal 21 Points/1 Return Full Highlights (11/19/2014)
Computer Consciousness #138A1-581-BB, known to himself as “Bradley Beal”, relaxed in his server cluster. It had been a long day calculating star trajectories for each of the approximately sixty-eight quadrillion such bodies in the observed universe. The task was tedious, but the end result was vital to the goals of the Exouniversal Exploration Consortium, as…
Read MoreAustin Rivers 12 Points Full Highlights (11/4/2014)
Austin Rivers is probably the best current NBA player named after a fluvial landform. DownToBuck looks back on some of the other greats who shared this characteristic: Larry Lagoon: Playing for the Rochester Royals in the mid-50’s, Lagoon was known as a flashy dribbler, developing a type of proto-crossover known as the “Very Larry” which…
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