The days passed, and Duncan grew increasingly concerned at his body’s strange response to his solitary practices. After much experimentation, he had precisely pinpointed the problem: if his two feet were planted behind the three-point line, his shooting arm would begin to spasm. Anywhere else on the court, he could shoot with no difficulty. If…
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Duncan Robinson All 243 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Three-ilation Part I)
Feeling an annoying twinge in his right bicep, Duncan Robinson lowered his arms from his shooting motion and let the ball drop to the floor. After shaking his arm a few times to loosen up whatever tightness was there, he grabbed the ball again and prepared to shoot another three-pointer, one of hundreds he had…
Read MoreLuka Doncic All 156 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Three-ilation)
Luka Doncic drove down a wide street in a Dallas suburb that he had never even heard of, much less visited. On either side of the road were a multitude of restaurant choices representing every cuisine known to man (or at least the ones that were a part of the average American’s culinary lexicon). It…
Read MoreDavis Bertans All 200 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Three-ilation)
The sounds of a sawblade grinding against metal filled the improvised workshop. Soaring sparks cast a red glow in the windowless room which was otherwise lit only by a flickering bulb swinging from the ceiling. A very tall man impatient wiped sweat away from his brow as he bent in concentration over his latest electro-mechanical…
Read MoreTrae Young All 205 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Three-ilation Part II)
This is part two of my tell-all oral history which goes into the gritty, unsavory details of the NBA’s most polarizing hairstyle. To support this kind of hard-hitting journalistic excellence, consider a donation to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/downtobuck — RAY YOUNG: When Trae was a junior in high school, I caught a glimpse of his scalp…
Read MoreTrae Young All 205 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Three-ilation Part I)
The subject of Trae Young’s hair has always captured the imaginations of the public. However, rumors and hearsay often obscure the truth. The astonishing facts of Young’s hairstyle have only ever been known in tantalizing fragments…until today. After spending months interviewing those closest to the rising star for the Atlanta Hawks, the hard-hitting NBA journalist…
Read MoreMatt Thomas All 35 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Three-ilation)
Matt Thomas looked at his phone with scorn. He had, out of habit, opened his mobile banking app, and now the screen was showing him a checking account balance that was healthy but hadn’t increased at all over the past month. He knew that he should be grateful for the financial security that being an…
Read MoreJ.J. Redick All 240 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part II)
“You did WHAT?” J.J. Redick smiled apologetically. “It’s not a big deal. Voodoo’s just a bunch of phony baloney anyway, so it’s not like that lady’s gonna cast a curse on me for stealing her potions.” “But you believed in voodoo enough to steal the potions in the first place,” Zion Williamson pointed out. “J.J.,…
Read MoreJ.J. Redick All 240 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation Part I)
J.J. Redick nervously drove down streets in a New Orleans neighborhood that he had never been to before. The small houses lining the streets ranged from “dilapidated” to “unfit for human occupation”. He wondered why he had elected to make this trip at night when everything seemed ten times as unsafe. Distant and not-so-distant police…
Read MoreDavis Bertans All 145 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2018-19 Season Three-ilation)
Waiting in his living room for his guest to arrive, Davis Bertans checked all his equipment with anticipation. Each component had been tested recently, but he wanted the reassurance that everything would go as planned. Plugging in his phone to the USB-C connector on the side, all the status codes came back normal. The doorbell…
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