It seems like James Johnson has entirely skipped the “LeBron James” phase of his metamorphosis and has now become…Boris Diaw? Or something? He’s not as fat as the Big Croissant but he passes like him, can sometimes shoot threes like him, and is a savvy vet like him. All JaJo needs to do is start…
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Luke Babbitt 16 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2017)
Call me an optimist, but I really, truly, and without sarcasm, thought that Luke Babbitt would be a factor for the Heat is this year. An offensive factor. A 10 ppg factor. The Heat needed shooting, so they went out and got a guy who can shoot. A guy who would be in line for…
Read MoreJames Johnson 20 Points Full Highlights (1/6/2017)
OFFICIAL NBA PLAYERS BORN IN WYOMING POWER RANKINGS 1. James Johnson. By far the Wyomingite with the longest…longevity in the league. Also the only modern NBA player from Wyoming – the rest of these guys are seriously old-school. This is like the most hipster power rankings ever because you’ve never heard of any of them….
Read MoreWillie Reed Career High 22 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (1/6/2017)
This season’s frantic scoring frenzy is even trickling down to the fringiest role-players in the league. Willie Reed’s scored a career-high 22 two games ago, and now had done it again, despite having given no indication whatsoever that he could be a scoring threat in any way. His previous high-water mark before all this happened…
Read MoreTyler Johnson 23 Points Full Highlights (1/4/2017)
The big news for the Heat is that Justise Winslow is probably going to miss the rest of the season after he had surgery on some part of his arm or something (probably to fix his broken shot LOL [lots of laughs]). Early returns (read: just this game) indicate that the Heat offense might be…
Read MoreWillie Reed Career High 22 Points Full Highlights (1/3/2017)
The list of players who have gotten a 20-20 game this season is basically a list of the best centers in the game: DeMarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis, Andre Drummond, Dwight Howard, DeAndre Jordan, and Hassan Whiteside. A who’s who of traditional bigmen who know how to grab the rock from the sky. Willie Reed was…
Read MoreWayne Ellington 18 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2017)
Wayne “Beef W” Ellington is having a career year. You might not have noticed because a career year for Wayne Ellington is not of the same caliber as a career year for a DeMar DeRozan or a James Harden. But the Waynemaker is averaging career highs across the board: points (12.4), field goal percentage (43.8%),…
Read MoreJames Johnson 20 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2017)
Welcome to tonight’s episode of “Classic Scrubuzzerbeaters with DownToBuck”. I’m your host, DownToBuck. The subject of tonight’s episode is James Johnson’s forgotten game-winning three-pointer on December 28, 2012. Johnson was on the Kings at that point in his career, a team he was only on for one season. He kind of was sucking that season,…
Read MoreJosh Richardson 19 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (12/30/2016)
Josh Richardson’s shooting percentages are way down from last year, probably because he’s been thrust into a starting shooting guard role that he’s not quite ready for. Even while making 25 of 47 field goals in his last three games, he’s hovering around 40% shooting, and his three-point percentage has dropped off ominously. That’s okay…
Read MoreJames Johnson 22 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2016)
Here’s the deal: I would have shown James Johnson’s 6 assists against the Celtics, to illustrate his ever-increasing similarity to LeBron James, but the NBA’s play-by-play thingie only lists last names, and both he and Tyler Johnson had 6 assists, and I got really, REALLY confused. It was hard enough figuring out which buckets were…
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