“Thanks for agreeing to come over,” Kelly Oubre said as he led James Harden through the entryway of his modest Phoenix apartment. “I know we’re enemies on the court, but I hope we can be friends off it.” “Your business plan intrigues me,” James said. “The money I couldn’t care less about. But more exposure…
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Kelly Oubre 30 Points Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
I just saw on the Twatter that the Suns are fielding calls on Kelly Oubre with less than a day to go before the trade deadline. I haven’t seen anybody say that a deal is imminent (other than perhaps the plebs on Twatter who don’t even have a blue checkmark), but it’s interesting that the…
Read MoreKelly Oubre 21 Points Full Highlights (2/3/2020)
Kelly Oubre is one of the highest-scoring players remaining on my channel with his 18.5 PPG per game. My official drop-dead cutoff for DTB eligibility is 20 PPG per game, so Oubre’s not quite there yet, but I’ve kicked out a bunch of players who are objectively worse scorers than he is, so I’m not…
Read MoreJevon Carter 15 Points Full Highlights (2/2/2020)
I gave Jevon Carter a lot of flak last season for being one of the least efficient players the league has ever seen. I get that he’s a defensive specialist and brings real value on that side of the ball (not that DownToBuck cares about defense), but he barely shot 30% from the field. He…
Read MoreKelly Oubre 27 Points Full Highlights (1/31/2020)
I’m not the guy who gets salty over bad reffing. Even when it affects my preferred teams, I try not to let bad calls get to me by reminding myself that they happen to every team with roughly the same frequency. The challenge system, while not perfect, has moved the league in the correct direction…
Read MoreKelly Oubre 27 Points Full Highlights (1/26/2020)
From a theoretical mathematics perspective (a branch of scholarship which I am intimately familiar with), how much of Kelly Oubre’s 27-point performance was negated by the fact that he committed an offensive foul with fifteen seconds left and the Suns down by three? To set the stage a bit more, Oubre had the ball behind…
Read MoreDario Saric 20 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
What kind of situation would Dario Saric have to be in where European fans would stop complaining that he’s being mis- or under-utilized? Note that I’m not saying he isn’t being under-utilized in Phoenix. It seems to me that he’s not being used to his full potential right now. But it seems like that, even…
Read MoreMikal Bridges Career High 26 Points Full Highlights (1/18/2020)
The Celtics may have had Marcus Smart and his 11 threes and his career-high 37 points, but it was no match for Phoenix’s Mikal Bridges and his 6 threes and his career-high 26 points. There may have been other factors at play (I’m looking at the box-score and apparently Bridges was only tied for second…
Read MoreKelly Oubre 25 Points Full Highlights (1/12/2020)
Remember: the ‘Zards traded this dude for Trevor Ariza. Trevor Ariza. Not even anyone good. Trevor Ariza. Now, I understand that they traded him because they didn’t want to have to pay him during the offseason and wanted to get some value for him before he went away forever, but still. Trevor Ariza. Trevor Ariza….
Read MoreKelly Oubre 22 Points/1 Block Full Highlights (1/10/2020)
I would estimate that the NBA would become a full 1 percent less fun without Kelly Oubre running around doing all his Kelly Oubre things. That doesn’t sound like a lot (probably because 1 is the lowest non-negative integer besides 0), but when considering the total amount of fun that the NBA contains (which is…
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