Tag: Courtney Lee

During last year’s playoffs I invented and debuted the #payAttentionToCourtneyLee hashtag to recognize him for his exceptional ability to accumulate win shares. Unfortunately, the Twitter campaign was mostly a failure, with only a few people using my expertly crafted phrase on their Twitter posts. DTB is not a quitter though. He has a will of…

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My #payAttentionToCourtneyLee Twitter campaign has failed to gain any significant amount of momentum since I launched it two days ago. I don’t get it. Do I need to pay Twitter users to use my hashtag? Do I need to pay Twitter to promote it? If somebody tells me who to give money to, I will…

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At the time of this writing, Courtney Lee is one of the best players in the playoffs in terms of win-shares. By this measure, Only Jimmy Butler, Stephen Curry, Marcin Gortat, and Kawhi Leonard are more valuable to their team’s success. This begs the question: why doesn’t anybody care about Courtney Lee? I’m fully aware…

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It’s a known fact that everybody on the 2009-10 New Jersey Nets, the team that went 12-70, is cursed. Many of the players on that team are out of the league, and those that are in the league have yet to find sustained success on good teams. Devin Harris is doing good on the Mavs,…

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While scouring basketball-reference for material that I can use in this description (because I’m lazy this morning), I found out that Courtney Lee is shooting 48% from three this year. Only three players are better than him: Kyle Korver (obvs) Luke Babbitt (I guess I can believe that) Rasual Butler (what) So you could say…

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Five games into the Grizzlies season, I made Courtney Lee highlights. In the description, I predicted that the Grizzlies would win all 82 games and set an unbeatable regular season record. This seemed like a fair prediction to make, since they were 5-0 at the time. Lee has kept up his level of play, but…

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As the immortal Kendrick Perkins said: “These motherfurglers are still the Sacramento Kings” You have to feel bad for their fans. This must have been a heartbreaking loss. Then you remember that crazy buzzer-beater Tyreke Evans had a couple years ago, and you don’t feel so bad for them anymore. Then you think about how…

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So, the Grizzlies are 5-0 to start the season. Raise your hand if you accurately predicted that this is how their year would start. I see you behind your monitor with you hand raised. Yes, you! You’d better put that hand back down before I burst out through your monitor to kick your ass. I…

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Courtney Lee is currently experiencing the bump in play that comes with being traded to a new team. It happened to Derrick Williams. It happened to Kevin Martin. These players don’t magically get any better. I guess their roles increase, given that a team desired them enough to acquire them. And then after a few…

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So rarely does a trade occur in the NBA that visibly improves both teams’ rosters. Courtney Lee for Jerryd Bayless was such a trade. Courtney Lee provides the wing shooting that the Grizzlies have been missing since Quincy Pondexter smashed his foot into a thousand pieces. Meanwhile, Jerryd Bayless can play some point guard for…

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