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writer | podcaster | nba generalist | stats and clips | overstated nba show | hoopwriter @gmail .com

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Brett Usher
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OMG CP3
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Wemby did all this in 90 seconds ๐Ÿ‘ฝ
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Kentucky guards are a wildly safe bet
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NBA University
6 months
You know who is really good? Immanuel Quickley
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Dame Lillardโ€™s 55 points on 24 shots in the โ€˜21 playoffs. Idc if they lost; he had Austin Rivers literally thanking god when he finally missed
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11 months
Name a masterclass NBA performance that deserves more recognition.
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Dick Bavetta was an NBA referee for 39 seasons and never once missed an assigned game. It amounted to 2,635 consecutive games between 1975 and 2014. In his NBA debut he officiated John Havlicek; in his final season he officiated Giannis.
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Best all star event
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10 months
Ricky Rubio is 32 years old and heading into his 19th season of professional basketball ๐Ÿคฏ
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2 months
WHAT
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4 months
The Mentor
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Jermaine Oโ€™Neal scored 55 in 2005 but subbed himself out of the game so Reggie could keep the franchise record
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5 months
31 years ago today, Number 31 dropped 57 on the Hornets, setting a Pacers franchise record that still stands It would go down as the sixth highest individual single-game point total of the 1990s Impressively, Reggie did it on just 29 shots Only six times in NBA history has aโ€ฆ
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1 year
โ€œThat actually was a bad shot.โ€ ๐Ÿ˜‚
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11 months
The 2015-16 Mavericks had three PGs born on June 26th, 1984
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11 months
What are some NBA facts that sound fake but are actually true?
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Malik Monk had 4 points with 2:40 left in the third quarter He finished the game with 39 #LightTheBeam
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1 year
Michael Jordan really scored THREE THOUSAND points in a single season (1986-87) It hadnโ€™t been done since Wilt in 1962-63, and it hasnโ€™t been done since The top three totals since are: -MJ in 1987-88 (2,868) -Kobe in 2005-06 (2,832) -Harden in 2018-19 (2,818) Jayson Tatum ledโ€ฆ
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1 year
Tim Duncan made All-NBA First Team as a ROOKIE. Think about how crazy that is.
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6 months
Jordan Poole is legitimately hilarious
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8 months
He had an injury buddy hield fast
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8 months
buddy hield: one of the most durable players in the nba ๐Ÿ’ช
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They said Chet wouldnโ€™t hold up Today heโ€™ll become one of only six players in the league this season to start all 82
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1 year
Wild day in the association: Udonis Haslem scores 24 Cam Thomas scores 46 Kenny Lofton Jr. scores 42 Payton Pritchard puts up a 30-point triple-double Theo Pinson triple-doubles Rudy Gobert punches Kyle Anderson and gets sent home Jaden McDaniels breaks his hand punching aโ€ฆ
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1 year
Remember when all those people were questioning Antโ€™s character pre-draft?
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1 year
Doris Burke/Boris, Dirk
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1 year
Mike Brown has had a really dope career
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5 months
Amen Thompson COOKING
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11 months
Aron Baynes draining NINE threes against the Blazers a few days before the league shut down
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11 months
Whatโ€™s an NBA performance that isnโ€™t talked about enough?
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9 months
As a 22-year-old in the 2001 Playoffs, Kobe Bryant averaged 29.4 PPG, 7.3 RPG, 6.1 APG, and 1.6 SPG as the Lakers went 15-1 and captured their second of three consecutive titles. They swept the 50-win Blazers, the 55-win Kings (Kobe averaged 35-9-4), and the 58-win Spursโ€ฆ
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1 year
Joel Embiid becomes the first player in NBA history to fall on the floor 18+ times in the first half of a playoff game.
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11 months
The unsung hero of this magnificent run
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6 months
Nothing but love for SLAM, but idk about that headline
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6 months
BREAKING: Cooper Flagg officially commits to Dukeโ€ฆ and is on the cover of SLAM 247.
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1 year
The best All-Star uniforms ever:
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Brett Usher
9 months
Just saw a tweet saying 25-year-old Brandon Ingram is โ€œdamn near 30โ€ and getting outshined by younger players on Team USA and quote tweeting the stats of 26-year-old Mikal Bridges and 27-year-old Cam Johnson as evidence and it got like 3k likes. This shit might really be cooked.
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1 year
Shaedon Sharpe has some of the craziest bounce ever. Here are ALL of his dunks so far this season:
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Brett Usher
10 months
The 1997-98 Sunsโ€™ guard rotation ๐Ÿคฏ
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1 year
The 2013-14 Hawksโ€™ coaching staff was ridiculously stacked
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1 year
Rotation rookies currently in the playoffs: 1. Christian Braun
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1 year
Hakeem Olajuwon wore goggles for the first time in his career during a game at Orlando in late December of 1990. His decision to wear them was a response to the exceedingly physical nature of post play in those days. The goggles, however, lasted just one quarter before they wereโ€ฆ
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10 months
Man, these three were toughhh. The Bulls were 27-13 and sitting in first place in the East when Lonzo went down for the season in Jan. โ€˜22
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10 months
Idk if itโ€™s the best ever but itโ€™s up there
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Automatic
10 months
Kinda random but who has the best hesi ever?
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Brett Usher
3 months
Smooth, ultra-skilled, 6โ€™9โ€ three-level scorers donโ€™t grow on trees Easy to see why he was the #2 pick
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Ballislife.com
3 months
Brandon Miller with 33 PTS. Last 4 games: 33, 35, 28, 21, 29
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6 months
Anthony Edwards: 26-6-5 LaMelo Ball: 26-6-9 Tyrese Haliburton: 25-4-12 Tyrese Maxey: 26-5-7 Desmond Bane: 26-5-5 2020 looking like an all-time guard draft
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The 2016 Draft included Jaylen Brown, Brandon Ingram, Pascal Siakam, Jamal Murray, and Domantas Sabonis. That draft classโ€™s leader in career points? BUDDY HIELD, with 8,807.
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#1 prospect in the class of โ€˜08 2 years at Dominguez, 2 at Oak Hill 1,312 points (35.5 PPG) senior year 1st American to go straight from HS to a European pro team #10 pick in the 2009 Draft Scored 55 in his 7th NBA game
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Underrated dunk
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1 year
Errick McCollum, older brother to CJ, has been one of the best scorers overseas for well more than a decade now. Pure hooper.
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4 months
Last night Nikola Jokic surpassed Michael Jordan for the all-time lead in PER
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11 months
@LegionHoops Itโ€™s disingenuous to act like the Suns were a regular 4 seed or the Lakers were a regular 7 seed. Thatโ€™s KD & Book, LeBron and AD. Lakers knocked out the 2 seed and the defending champs. Heat knocked out the #1 and the #2 . This is the playoffs. What are we doing here?
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Brett Usher
10 months
Cheddar cooked on this one. Went from Kevin Durant to Kevin McHale
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7 months
Still thinking about the way Wemby shook Dillon Brooks here to get free for the jumper in OT
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1 year
Tatumโ€™s career is really something Year 1: Conf Finals Year 2: Conf Semis Year 3: Conf Finals Year 4: First Round Year 5: NBA Finals Year 6: Conf Finals+ Has increased PPG, RPG, APG every season 4x All-Star, 3x All-NBA (2x 1st Team) 7 total 50+ point games Still only 25!
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Averaged 7.7 PPG for Santa Clara that season Four years later heโ€™s a top-35 NBA player
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3 months
hereโ€™s a random game from when Jalen Williams was a freshman at Santa Clara, literally a week before the world shutdown
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11 months
Letโ€™s not get carried away; the five is still Kareem-Wilt-Russell-Dream-Shaq.
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11 months
If Nikola Jokic wins this NBA Finals, with his 2 MVPs, is he a top 5 center of all time? ๐Ÿ‘€
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8 months
The number of Kentucky guards drafted between 2015 and 2020 who became very good to great NBA players is crazy
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1 year
Easily one of the nicest finishes of the season
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6 months
He dunked this ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Thereโ€™s no place in the game for these calls
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Devin Booker becomes the first player since Michael Jordan in 1992 to average 35+ PPG over the first eight games of a postseason.
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Random thought: 2018 Vic Oladipo was one of the hardest players Iโ€™ve ever had to guard in my time in the league.. Man would sprint full speed at you and pull up for 3 like nothing, or could blow by anytime he wanted as well. Nightmare.
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Tre Mann, ladies and gentlemen
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1 year
Mac McClung: - 3/4 dunks never seen before - Scored 50, 49.8, 50, 50 - Landed all four on the first try All-time great Dunk Contest performance.
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I donโ€™t care if he got fouled, that little tantrum was embarrassing to watch.
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6 months
You have to love Jalen Suggs
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โ€œIf Rudy shoots a three in a real NBA game, Iโ€™m walking off the court.โ€ - Anthony Edwards
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Dirk and Luka lighting up the Warriors at Oracle is something that happened
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10 months
Remember how crazy this seemed?
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Chris Palmer
8 years
$153M for Mike Conley. Richest contract in NBA history. Non All-Star. Never made an All-NBA team.
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1 year
The 2014 Draft has aged pretty well Nikola Jokic Joel Embiid Zach LaVine Julius Randle Andrew Wiggins Aaron Gordon Jerami Grant Clint Capela Marcus Smart Spencer Dinwiddie Kind of an underrated class
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KD pre-achilles (age 19-30): 27-7-4-1-1, 49/38/88 (61.3% TS) KD post-achilles (age 32-34): 29-7-6-1-1, 54/40/91 (65.3% TS)
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Thatโ€™s Duke Zion
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Embiid drawing phantom fouls left and right but theyโ€™re not going to call this?
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2 years
This squad went 57-25
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1 year
They really built an ideal starting five+ around Nikola Jokic: - GOAT offensive hub - elite defender/cutter - 6โ€™10 elite shooter - elite shotmaker PG - NBA champion 3 & D wing - ultimate utility 6th man
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Wemby scoop dunk
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8 months
This is insane
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The ๐Ÿ at every height: 5โ€™3 - Muggsy Bogues 5โ€™4 - Barney Sedran 5โ€™5 - Earl Boykins 5โ€™6 - Spud Webb 5โ€™7 - Keith Jennings 5โ€™8 - Charlie Criss 5โ€™9 - Calvin Murphy 5โ€™10 - Damon Stoudamire 5โ€™11 - Terrell Brandon 6โ€™0 - Allen Iverson 6โ€™1 - John Stockton 6โ€™2 - Steph Curry 6โ€™3 - Jerryโ€ฆ
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Brett Usher
6 months
Anthony Edwards has gotten VERY good at using the glass on jumpers. Hereโ€™s some of his window work so far this season:
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Brett Usher
2 years
If Bol Bol were a 21-year-old rookie from Europe and not a 22-year-old fourth-year NBA player with an injury history who was already famous before he got to the league, the hype right now would be CRAZY. Like, if you were just now seeing him for the first time, youโ€™d be amazed.
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2 years
Thereโ€™s really only one comp I could make for Paolo and Iโ€™m not about to make it
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Jackson Frank
2 years
The stuff Paolo does, holy moly
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Brett Usher
3 months
This AAU team was crazy Four top-15 picks
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3 months
Heโ€™ll turn 30 during the 2033-34 season
@NBA_University
NBA University
3 months
14.3 PPG 66.1 TS% 12.2 RPGโ€”3.4 ORB 2.5 APG 9 more months until Jalen Duren can legally buy a drink
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Shaedon Sharpeโ€™s last 9 games: 24-9-3 24-4-2 29-5-3 12-8-1 30-7-7 27โ€“3-5 27-6-6 20-8-6 26-4-4 Heโ€™s 19.
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WTF Embiid
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Victor Wembanyama becomes the first player in NBA history to register 22+ PTS, 11+ REB, 6+ STL, and 4+ BLK in under 35 minutes. He did it in 25. #PorVida
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Josh Hart, micโ€™d up: โ€œOh, that is TOUGH, Malachi!โ€
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6 months
Look at Shaedon Sharpe
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10 months
Malik Monkโ€™s HS mixtape is disgusting
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Devin Booker becomes the first player in NBA history to average 35+ PPG on 70+ percent true shooting over a nine-game span in the playoffs.
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One of the most mind-blowing instances of HANG TIME Iโ€™ve ever seen
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The Lakers are one of the deepest and most talented teams in the league, but I believe Rui Hachimura can emerge as their fourth guy. Always projected him to be a late bloomer at the NBA level, and his age-25 season will be his clear best yet, the beginning of his prime. #LakeShow
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DSJโ€™s Mavs highlight reel goes crazy
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1 year
Travel or nah? ๐Ÿ˜‚
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6 months
The fact that he was able to stay both in bounds and behind the three-point line in that spot on the court with a defender on his heels and hit a fucking turnaround on the move over a great contest and make it look that smooth is amazing not just for a 7โ€™1 rookie but for anyone
@ThunderFilmRoom
#1 Thunder Film Room
6 months
each angle just keeps getting better & better.
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7 months
RIP
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San Antonio Spurs
7 months
Let's go ๐Ÿ”’ @zcollins_33 ๐Ÿ“:
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Vasilije Miciฤ‡ in his Hornets debut: 18 PTS (career high) 9 AST (career high) 8/12 FG 2/3 3PT 25 MP (career high) W The 30-year-old rookie put on a SHOW in front of the home crowd #LetsFly35
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2 months
Nightmarish fact: Victor is shooting 40.2% on 5.1 3PA/G over his last 20 games ๐Ÿ‘ฝ
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Drafted two spots apart in 2009, Stephen Curry and DeMar DeRozan are currently neck and neck on the all-time career points leaderboard (h/t @bball_ref )
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2 months
Greatest PG draft of all time
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1 month
WTF Victor
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5 months
The Magic are 11-2 with Anthony Black as starting PG #MagicTogether
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3 months
Nash really shot 50/40/90 over an eleven-season span
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@Ballislife
Ballislife.com
3 months
HBD 2 x MVP Steve Nash One of the best & most crafty point guards ever
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Rui Hachimura is big and athletic with an automatic jumper, and at 25, with an outstanding work ethic and as someone who came relatively late to basketball, he continues to improve. The Lakers got him for Kendrick Nunn and three future 2nds. #LakeShow
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10 months
Who has the best off-hand in NBA history?
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2 months
This is SICK by Keyonte and Sexton
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