Unlike Nikola Vucevic, who I have been ignoring because he hasn’t been that good, I’ve been ignoring Evan Fournier for no good reason at all. Sorry French people! He must be falling victim to the curse that plagues all former scrubs: once you actually are good instead of just a bunch of “potential”, people stop…
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Nikola Vucevic 26 Points Full Highlights (12/20/2016)
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Nikola Vucevic looks like he could sling the sickest ‘zas in the whole NBA. Put him in a kitchen with a bunch of ingredients, you know what he’s gonna do, he just looks like the kind of guy who would produce the gnarliest pizza. For real. Damn…
Read MoreSerge Ibaka 18 Points/5 Blocks Full Highlights (12/16/2016)
It’s a good thing that Serge Ibaka is performing up to expectations, because it means the trade that brought him to Orlando is now merely rated as “pretty bad” and not “so bad that there should probably be a rule named after it” like it looked initially. I’ve been thinking about the whole sitch, and…
Read MoreAaron Gordon Career High 33 Points Full Highlights (12/13/2016)
Well this was unexpected. You might have noticed that you haven’t been hearing as much about Aaron Gordon as you ought to have given his status as one of the premiere young talents in the league. Where are the fawning articles? Where are the NBA-produced dunk reels? Where are the fan-made mixes with crappy hip-hop…
Read MoreJodie Meeks 20 Points Full Highlights (12/13/2016)
I feel like nobody remembers that Jodie Meeks once scored 42 points in a sanctioned NBA contest. He is definitely one of the lowest-profile members of the forty-point club. That year he was pretty much the main scorer for the Lakers once Kobe went down, so most of the best games of his career came…
Read MoreElfrid Payton Career High 26 Points/Career High 14 Assists Full Highlights (12/13/2016)
This is just way too much Elfrid Payton highlights. I defy any one of you to watch this whole honkin’ vid in one sitting. It cannot be done. I edited in one sitting, sure. But that’s a whole different matter. I can zone out really easily while editing one of these suckers, I’m like a…
Read MoreSerge Ibaka 29 Points Full Highlights (12/13/2016)
Man, I just issued a retraction on the whole Wesley Matthews deal with him not being so bad after all. I really don’t want to do the same for Serge Ibaka. The world can handle only so many DTB OFFICIAL RETRACTIONS before all confidence and trust in DownToBuck is eroded. Ibaka may not be as…
Read MoreSerge Ibaka 22 Points/4 Blocks Full Highlights (12/10/2016)
I have to admit, whoever came up with the nickname “Serge Protector” for Serge Ibaka is a much cleverer man than I. It’s perfect. It’s the perfect nickname. I bow before thee and thy superior moniker-creation skills. However, whoever came up with the idea to play a car crash sound effect after Ibaka blocks a…
Read MoreJodie Meeks 18 Points Full Highlights (12/6/2016)
Jodie Meeks woke up to find himself in an unfamiliar place. There was broken asphalt beneath his feet and a steady, chilling rain falling from the night sky. His first thought was that he must have gotten too drunk at a nightclub and stumbled into an alley to sleep it off, but he quickly remembered…
Read MoreJeff Green 20 Points Full Highlights (12/6/2016)
No one likes Jeff Green. Not anymore. He probably had some fans when he was on the Thunder/Sonics, and maybe a few when he was Boston, but those stints were a long time ago. Any of the potential he had when he was drafted 5th overall is gone, dried up under the withering desert sun…
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