Domantas Sabonis arrived at the door of the visitors’ locker room and pushed it open, hoping that the player he most wanted to meet hadn’t already departed. What he found behind the door was a mostly empty locker area, save for one very large man who was hunched over and staring at the floor with…
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Marcus Smart Career High 37 Points/11 Threes/8 Assists Full Highlights (1/18/2020)
An unmoving, unclothed body lay sprawled on the marble floor. For some time, it continued to lie there, but the passage of this time was meaningless, for, in that place, the causality which served as the foundation of all existence was divorced from the flow of time. Then, the man awoke, and, in confusion, got…
Read MoreDwight Powell 21 Points/0 Missed Field Goals Full Highlights (1/14/2020)
With reverence, I recover the sacred stone tablet from underneath my bed. Fashioned from a slab of solid, indestructible rock, this tablet serves as a record of all those in the recent past who have made many field goals in an NBA game without missing one. As I hold it, I feel the significance of…
Read MoreJames Johnson 19 Points Full Highlights (1/12/2020)
James Johnson, noticing the despondent mood in the Heat locker room after a discouraging loss to the Knicks, wanted to raise the down spirits of his teammates. “You know what tastes really great after a full 48 minutes of basketball?” he asked cheerily. Undeterred by the cold glances he was receiving from the rest of…
Read MoreJaxson Hayes 20 Points Full Highlights (1/11/2020)
Ever since the first game of the season where Jaxson Hayes scored nineteen points, I have had an alert system set up in my house so that I know when he reaches the milestone of scoring twenty points in a game. I’ve got it all: claxons, flashing lights, text messages to my phone, confetti, anything…
Read MoreTristan Thompson Career High 35 Points Full Highlights (1/9/2020)
Tristan Thompson could feel that he was lying down on a hard surface. Why would that be the case? The chances of him going to sleep somewhere so uncomfortable were remote. He decided to open his eyes rather than stubbornly keep them shut. The sight that greeted his opened eyes was a beautiful, yet confusing,…
Read MoreJerami Grant Career High 31 Points Full Highlights (1/6/2020)
https://youtu.be/FmmI2bgBsKw The lanky man sat up from his position lying prone on the floor. He looked around a little bit. Then, as if the scene was too much for him, he closed his eyes and lay back down again. Lying there on the hard marble floor, knowing what awaited beyond his eyelids but refusing to…
Read MoreGorgui Dieng 22 Points/6 Assists/4 Blocks Full Highlights (1/5/2020)
“Dear diary, Recently, a large quantity of the cursed white sand has been deposited onto this land of Minnesota which is forsaken by god. Thankfully, the prophets and soothsayers employed by the local television stations under the title of “weatherman” were accurate in their auguries, and I was able to plan in advance of these…
Read MoreDante Exum Career High 28 Points Full Highlights (1/5/2020)
“This isn’t funny guys,” Dante Exum called out to the empty hallway. A group of his teammates had told him about the “secret media room” where there was “tons of free food” available before games. But Dante had somehow gotten separated from them in the unfamiliar corridors of the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, and now he…
Read MoreMichael Porter Jr. 25 Points Full Highlights (1/2/2020)
Michael Porter Jr. strode into the locker room with an aura of earned confidence to find a gathering of jubilant teammates. After graciously accepting their whooping applause and numerous slaps on the back, things quieted down. The assembled Nuggets players seemed to be waiting for their rookie to make some sort of acknowledgement. “You guys…
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