The lanky Frenchman reclined in comfort, surrounded by the peaceful sounds and enticing scents of his well-tended Victorian garden. One of the luxurious sitting-room couches had been wrestled out of its usual place to be brought to this spot among the hedges, flowers, and decorative ferns. The fine piece of furniture would have to be…
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Nikola Jokic 29 Points/4 Blocks Full Highlights (5/12/2019)
The hugs had been exchanged. The tears had been shed. The realizations had been accepted: there would be no more basketball for this Nuggets team. Their dream of a championship, which had been faint at the outset of the season but had grown brighter as the wins rolled in, was extinguished. One player stayed back…
Read MoreJames Harden All 378 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part III)
This is the third and final installment of my groundbreaking oral history of James Hardens’ beard. Hundreds of hours of deep, heart-to-heart interviews were distilled into a concise narrative that sheds some much-needed light on the mysterious mass of tangled black facial hair. Enjoy. (if you want more hard-hitting journalism from DownToBuck, donate to my…
Read MoreJames Harden All 378 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part II)
This is the second installment of a three-part oral history exploring the story of James Harden’s beard, as told by the people who were there. Support my fact-finding endeavors by donating to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/downtobuck PART II: ORIGIN OF THE BEARD JAMES HARDEN: It wasn’t until high school that I had to start shaving my…
Read MoreJames Harden All 378 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part I)
James Harden is notable for many things: his stepback three-pointer that looks like a travel. His ability to enrage opposing fanbases with uncanny foul-drawing ability. The fact that Sam Presti deemed his value in a trade to be equivalent to that of Kevin Martin. That funny commercial where he sang about taking his shirt off…
Read MoreNikola Jokic Triple Double 21 Pts/12 Rebs/11 Asts Full Highlights (5/5/2019)
Nikola Jokic was extremely grateful that the Nuggets’ team plane had seats that were not only large enough to accommodate the size of NBA players, but were also able to be fully reclined. Nikola was currently taking advantage of that feature to its fullest. In addition, he had the air conditioning nozzles turned up to…
Read MoreLuka Doncic All 168 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part II)
For the third time that day, Luka Doncic got up to answer his ringing doorbell. What was waiting for him on the other side of the door wasn’t a GrubHub delivery person bearing a monstrous Taco Bell order; it was his teammate Dorian Finney-Smith, the one who had been responsible for introducing Luka to Taco…
Read MoreLuka Doncic All 168 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part I)
Luka Doncic heard the ringing of his doorbell, and, knowing exactly who the visitor was, got up quickly from his PC desk to greet them. Practically running to the front door, he wrenched it open and saw that he had not been mistaken in his expectations: the GrubHub delivery guy was standing right there, holding…
Read MoreStephen Curry All 354 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part III)
In the following weeks, Stephen’s disquieting dreams started to become more explicit, as if some outside force was trying to lend him enough information to carry out his ordained task. Still, upon waking from these dream-visions, Stephen found that he couldn’t remember everything he wanted to; he could only remember that there was something worth…
Read MoreStephen Curry All 354 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part II)
Stephen woke up suddenly and unexpectedly. Looking at the clock told him it was just past three in the morning. Fragments of the dream he had just been having were still present in his mind, but they were quickly recessing back into the fog of time. He grabbed his phone and activated the voice recording…
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