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Patty Mills 22 Points Full Highlights (12/11/2015)

Tim Duncan sat patiently in the waiting room of San Antonio Paraphilia Rehabilitation. It had been five months since he had taken Patty to this place, but he remembered every detail like it was yesterday. The struggle, the vile words, those things had not bothered Tim too much. But when Patty had been strapped to…

Frank Kaminsky 15 Points Full Highlights (12/11/2015)

Frank Kaminsky was getting ready for the game against the Grizzlies, when he noticed a slouched, white-bearded figure in the corner of the locker room, beckoning him. He wondered how he had noticed the man before; the mass of blankets covering him as he sat in a rocking-chair were out of place amongst the athletic…

Richaun Holmes 14 Points/4 Dunks Full Highlights (12/10/2015)

Richaun Holmes arrived at his locker before the game and prepared to put on his jersey. Taking it off its hanger, he noticed a post-it note stuck to the back of his locker. He plucked the note off the wooden surface and read it. “Remember, we’re tanking. -S” Who would leave a note for him…

Bojan Bogdanovic 19 Points Full Highlights (12/8/2015)

“Dear Father, It has been too long since I last wrote to you. The distance between us is great, but I should not have also let our closeness grow further apart. Enclosed is a check for you and mama. You can use it to buy presents for my brothers and sisters. They are a little…

Karl-Anthony Towns 18 Points/3 Threes Full Highlights (12/7/2015)

Karl-Anthony Towns looked sadly out of a window in his apartment. The sky, frustratingly, was a bright, wintery blue. “Where’s the snow, Ricky? You said there would be snow.” he whined, pressing his nose against the cold glass. Ricky Rubio’s annoyed voice came from the kitchenette. “I never promised anything, Karl, and you know that….

Wesley Matthews Career High 36 Points/10 Threes Full Highlights (12/6/2015)

Lost in an anesthetic haze, Wes Matthews wandered the deserted corridors of his mind. In the waking world, doctors were working tirelessly to repair his torn Achilles tendon, but in the inner world of Wes’ psyche, all was quiet, a side effect of the anesthesia that had ostensibly halted the workings of his brain. In…

Giannis Antetokounmpo 17 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (12/5/2015)

Giannis was not usually fond of road trips. He preferred the comfort and familiarity of his own bed to the hotel room beds he slept in while on the road. However, this road trip was especially unpleasant, he thought as he looked out the window of the team plane to observe the starry night sky….

Derrick Favors Career High 35 Points Full Highlights (12/5/2015)

Derrick Favors drove along a barely-used desert road. It had been almost an hour since he had seen any sign of civilization, here in the barren Utah flatlands. The only lights he had seen were his rental car’s headlights, illuminating the night when he dared to use them. He was totally lost now, and he…

Kelly Olynyk 21 Points Full Highlights (12/3/2015)

Kelly Olynyk sat alone at the bus station on the far outskirts of Kamloops. It was raining, the kind of rain that signaled the ending of summer, steady and cold, letting you know that snow was now only weeks away. It was late. How long he had been waiting for a bus, any bus, he…

DTB’s Best NBA Dunks of the Month (October/November 2015 Dunkilation)

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DUNK To understand how the modern dunk came to exist, we must first go back. Far, far back. Back before Dr. Naismith first nailed a peach basket to the wall of his gymnasium, back even before the first human was pitted against another in a sporting contest. Before the dawn…