Elfrid Payton – DownToBuck

Elfrid Payton 18 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (3/6/2020)

I was hesitant to make this highlight video for Elfrid Payton because his 18/9/8 line was almost a triple-double, but not quite a triple-double. A lot of “almost triple doubles” are actually mediocre from a statistical perspective; this one is okay, but Payton neither scored twenty points nor got ten assists, so my first thought…

Elfrid Payton 20 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (3/4/2020)

I don’t think there’s any way for me to look this up on basketball-reference, and it’s pretty obscure so Google isn’t helping at all, but Elfrid Payton having triple-doubles for four separate franchises has to be pretty close to the record, right? At least among active players? He’s only played for four teams so far,…

Elfrid Payton 18 Points/12 Assists Full Highlights (2/27/2020)

I wonder what the Knicks’ thought processes as an organization were when they decided to sign Elfrid Payton to a reasonable-on-the-surface two-year deal that pays him eight million dollars both years. Like, I legitimately wonder what kind of crazy meeting had to go on in a bland corporate conference room for them to come to…

Elfrid Payton 19 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (2/12/2020)

Elfrid Payton can put up all the statisticals that he wants, but there’s nothing he can do to make people care about him. The little amount of care (which could more accurately be termed “derision”) that people previously had for him went away when he lopped off his hair tower and started looking like a…

Elfrid Payton 15 Points/9 Assists/7 Steals Full Highlights (2/6/2020)

OFFICIAL DTB DISCLAIMER: At one point in this game, Elfrid Payton was credited with eight steals, including one on the last defensive play of the game. That’s pretty close to a triple-double with steals if you combine it with his nine assists, and it also would have been the most steals by any player this…

Elfrid Payton Triple Double 17 Pts/15 Asts/11 Rebs Full Highlights (2/3/2020)

Are you ready for a “vintage” Elfrid Payton performance? No you are not. You might think you are, but you aren’t. No one is. Because this is just WAY TOO MUCH Payton. Just like all those gigantic triple-doubles he had in Orlando, and in Phoenix (who even remembers the Payton era of Suns basketball?), and…

Elfrid Payton 15 Points/11 Assists/1 Fight Full Highlights (1/29/2020)

DownToBuck doesn’t usually deal excessively in footage of fights. Part of the reason is that the NBA doesn’t really like having clips of fights getting more attention than clips of actual basketball being played. Part of the reason is that I’m not a violent person in real life and watching fights makes me anxious. The…

Elfrid Payton 16 Points Full Highlights (12/13/2019)

Elfrid Payton has many flaws as a basketball player, but he has one attribute that makes him very attractive to Knicks fans right now: point-guardiness. The Knicks have been without a real, actual, run-the-offense point guard for… since whenever Payton got injured in the first place. And it has showed. Their offense has been chaotic,…

Elfrid Payton 26 Points/14 Assists Full Highlights (4/7/2019)

Magic fans know full well the phenomenon of “March Elfrid”, which is when the season hits the month of March and Elfrid Payton starts putting up huge numbers on a regular basis. He can be a middling PG the whole year, but when the calendar flips over to the third month, it doesn’t matter. It’s…

Elfrid Payton Triple Double 19 Points/10 Rebs/11 Asts Full Highlights (3/18/2019)

“Dear Elfrid, I suppose that when you saw that you had received a letter from the esteemed highlight creator known as DownToBuck that I would fawn all over you. Perhaps I would declare you the new mascot of my channel, the unofficial representative of all role-players league-wide. Your ego would like that, wouldn’t it? Not…