Every team wants their own “unicorn”. I absolutely hate that term, just hate hate hate, and not because I dislike unicorns (the mythological creature), but because… I don’t even know why. Just don’t ever call Giannis a unicorn around me. I will look angrily at you, and then call the cops and tell them that…
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Nik Stauskas 15 Points Full Highlights (10/22/2018)
There was a good chance, with the final game of the season ending with Nik Stauskas posterizing some Celtics scrub who shall remain nameless, that that was the last we would see of him in the NBA. Apparently, according to some interview, he thought so too. Sad, but he wouldn’t be the first high pick…
Read MoreJusuf Nurkic 22 Points Full Highlights (10/21/2018)
Jusuf Nurkic is shooting threes now. You were probably already aware of that fact, but in case you’re still stuck in five years ago where not every big in the NBA shoots the long ball, I thought I’d make it clear. He was shooting them in preseason, and that’s carried over into about 1 attempt…
Read MoreNik Stauskas Career High 24 Points Trailblazers Debut Full Highlights (10/18/2018)
Much like Summer League Aaron Gordon (SLAG) has become almost deified in my mind, so too has Backyard Unstoppable Nick Stauskas (BUNS). That pre-draft backyard video of him in the rain shooting three-pointers has remained stuck in my mind for half a decade now, standing not only as a testament to BUNS’ literally wet shooting…
Read MoreDamian Lillard All 227 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2017-18 Season Three-ilation Part II)
Damian stared at the discarded abacus as if had burned him. Of course, nothing of the sort had happened. He had been overcome with a vision of something, a moment of startling clarity among the recent confusing events, but the origin of the abaci remained just as unknown as before. It lay there on the…
Read MoreDamian Lillard All 227 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2017-18 Season Three-ilation Part I)
Damian Lillard woke up feeling refreshed and tranquil, but this was no surprise to him; tranquility was an easy state of mind to reach when one had relocated to a remote cabin in the Oregon Cascades for the off-season. Morning sunlight, filtered by a thick pine forest, served as a much more peaceful alarm clock…
Read MoreJusuf Nurkic 18 Points Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
The season ends for Jusuf Nurkic and the Portland Trailblazers. A lot of stuff happened for them, but how much of it will be remembered even a year from now? Here’s my personal list, which is obviously skewed in favor of worse players and against “stars” (shade at Damian Lillard continues to be thrown). -Pat…
Read MoreAl-Farouq Aminu 27 Points Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
I said in my last Al-Farouq Aminu vid (just two days ago!), that Blazers fans were “Going to turn on Aminu once he scores four points in game four and the Blazers get swept out of the playoffs”. As you can see from the video title, Aminu scored way more than four points, and so…
Read MoreAl-Farouq Aminu 21 Points Full Highlights (4/19/2018)
How unfair that one of the Blazers’ role-players actually decided to show up for this game, yet the Blazers still lost big to the Pelicans thanks to the combined efforts of Lameian Brickard C.J. McChuckbrick. Al-Farouq Aminu’s 21 point in this game is by far the most of any non-Lillard, non-McCollum Blazer in this series….
Read MoreZach Collins 12 Points Full Highlights (4/17/2018)
Does or does not Zach Collins kinda totally look like a serial killer? He’s handsome in a cold kind of way, with the 50’s-style haircut, the sharp jawline that could probably withstand hits from a sledgehammer, the lanky tallness, and those steely blue eyes. But he also looks slightly unhinged, like there is nothing behind…
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