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06/05/2026

The Latvian Lunch-pail (I really do need to go back and log all of my arbitrary nicknames).

This is my 500th post in the 536 days this account has existed. Evidently I’ve erred in my inaugural daily posting pledge, but life has its own agenda.

True ball knowledge is being able to spell Anžejs Pasečņiks’ full name without a hitch. So fire up your synapses and imprint it in your brain if you wanna one-up/transcend your fellow NBA zealots.

2017 first-round pick and former teammate of the Latvian Laser, Anžejs Pasečņiks brought some rigor from Riga (his hometown, the capital of Latvia) over his 28 NBA appearances. A jack-of-most-trades-master-of-few 7’1” paint-bound Center who never quite latched on after D.C. accrued a glut of bigs.

AP’s last taste of NBA action came in the 2024 Preseason on a two-way deal with the Bucks where he didn’t quite make the cut in training camp. He had 11 PTS & 8 REB on 5-9 FG on October 17th 2024.

Anžejs is currently playing in Taiwan for the Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers (what a name) alongside none other than Sim Bhullar as well as G-League legend Craig Sword and former NCAA double-double machine Drew Pember. AP is averaging 11 and 8. The same club that Anthony Bennett & Hasheem Thabeet played for in the past.

P.S. Your nugatory fact of the day: the v-shaped mark atop the “z” and “c” of AP’s name is called a caron. As such, you all get two FNBA nicknames today, as I hereby declare Caron Butler’s new nickname to be “ˇButler”💀

The Box Score from the first clip:

Date: January 4th 2020
Score: Wizards 128 - 114 Nuggets
Respective Records at this juncture: Wizards 11-24, Nuggets 24-11

Interesting (and uninteresting) Statlines:
Ish Smith - 32 PTS / 8 AST / 3 STL / 15-24 FG
Troy Brown Jr. - 25 PTS / 14 REB / 10-12 FG / 2-3 3PT
Anžejs Pasečņiks - 13 PTS / 8 REB / 6-8 FG
Isaac Bonga - 15 PTS / 5-6 FG
Johnathan Williams - 12 PTS / 8 REB / 3 BLK / 6-8 FG
Jordan McRae - 11 PTS / 3-15 FG
Isaiah Thomas - 9 PTS / 2-9 FG

Jamal Murray - 39 PTS / 13-19 FG / 3-7 3PT / 10-10 FT
Nikola Jokić - 14 PTS / 10 REB / 4 AST / 4-10 FG / 5-7 FT
Paul Millsap - 12 PTS / 5 REB / 3-9 FG / 6-7 FT
Will Barton - 10 PTS / 3-8 FG
Malik Beasley - 8 PTS / 2-5 3PT

06/03/2026

The Second Annual Forgettable NBA Finals Preview.

Unfortunately there will be no fourth annual NBA Finals preview because NBA Draft scouting and freelancing has run me ragged and time is scarce (hopefully that changes in due time as we continue to get bigger and better). Plus I am soon bound for LA to indulge in the FIFA festivities (wrong sport, I know)

For those new around here, this reel is exactly as it appears. An assortment of air-balls, blown layups, hare-brained turnovers, and general blunders from the two finalists’ regular season (and NBA Cup) meetings.

Last year, we had Jalen Williams fall over and touch earth like he was playing the Hasbro game twister, which compelled me to share a chronological history of Twister in the caption.

In keeping with tradition, we’ve got Wemby doing his best inflatable tube man impression in the first clip, which calls for a follow-up non-basketball rabbit hole.

I am arbitrarily obligated to go on an unsolicited tangent on the history of the inflatable tube man, aka the air dancer:

- Initially called the “Tall Boy”, it was invented in the mid-1990s by Carnival artist Peter Minshall, hailing from the great nation of Trinidad & Tobago, and Doron Gazit, a specialist engineer in inflatable structures.

- Minshall wanted to create an inflatable airman that mirrored the motions of Calypso street dancers

- It was originally created as a kinetic, 60-foot tall piece of performance art for the 1996 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Atlanta which was a resounding success

- Gazit patented two-legged dancing inflatable tube men (officially described as a patent for “Apparatus and Method for Providing Inflated Undulating Figures”) for manufacturing and distribution behind Minshall’s back, profiting off their popularity and reaping the entirety of the intellectual property rights

- Tube men have been banned in several areas, such as Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Houston, due to the risk of distracting drivers

For those wondering, I don’t have a horse in this race but I’ve got Spurs in 7.

My apologies for clogging the character limit with the above bullet points instead of a Box Score.

06/02/2026

Can the real Tyrus Thomas fans please stand up.

Quite the juxtaposition - an All-NBA beanpole and a lottery-flame-out preternatural athlete. Tyrus might just be NBA All-“watch 5 clips of me playing basketball and call it a day” First Team. A sky-grazing phenom with verticality that emulated the solar eclipse and rim finishes so violent you were half expecting the court to be cordoned off.

Chet Holmgren may have become the personification of a deer in the headlights vs the French Extraterrestrial, but he faltered so that we may reminisce about a late 2000s slugfest.

A Garnett-less defending champion Celtics duking it out against the feisty upstart Bulls. A bloodbath where 4 games went to OT, amassing a total of 7 overtime periods.

A series that featured the NBA christening of a 20-year-old Derrick Rose, the last sustained period of high-level basketball from Ben Gordon (arguably the most underrated sharpshooter in NBA history), and, most importantly, saw Brian Scalabrine get extended burn off the Celtics’ bench.

Fun Fact: Anthony Roberson (not to be confused with Andre’s brother of the same name) averaged 72 points, 18 made threes and 18 steals per 36 minutes in the series following his 8 points in 4 minutes performance in Game 3.

The Box Score from Tyrus’ groundbreaking evening:

Date: May 2nd 2009 (R1, G7)
Score: Celtics 109 - 99 Bulls
Regular Season Records: Celtics 62-20, Bulls 41-41

Interesting (and uninteresting) Statlines:
Ray Allen - 23 PTS / 7 REB / 3 Stocks / 6-14 FG / 2-5 3PT / 9-9 FT
Paul Pierce - 20 PTS / 9 REB / 4 AST / 6-17 FG / 7-8 FT
Kendrick Perkins - 14 PTS / 13 REB / 6-8 FG
Rajon Rondo - 7 PTS / 5 REB / 11 AST / 5 Stocks / 2-8 FG / 3-6 FT
Glen Davis - 15 PTS / 6-16 FG / 3-7 FT
Eddie House - 16 PTS / 3 STL / 4-4 3PT
Brian Scalabrine - 8 PTS / 2-3 3PT in 25 mins
Stephon Marbury - 2 PTS / 0-3 FG

Ben Gordon - 33 PTS / 4 AST / 7-23 FG / 4-12 3PT / 15-15 FT
Derrick Rose - 18 PTS / 4 REB / 9-18 FG
Joakim Noah - 7 PTS / 15 REEB / 1-2 FG / 5-5 FT
Kirk Hinrich - 16 PTS / 4 STL / 5-10 FG / 2-5 3PT / 4-6 FT
John Salmons - 12 PTS / 4 REB / 3-12 FG / 5-6 FT
Brad Miller - 9 PTS / 7 REB / 3-8 FG
Tyrus Thomas - 4 PTS / 5 REB / 4 Stocks / 2-4 FG

06/01/2026

Your friendly neighbourhood upper paint virtuoso.

The Haitian sensation made his return to the Association on a 10-day with the Wizards in late January, rekindling his frontcourt fellowship with Marvin Bagley III.

Skal has always thrived as a face up big outside of the restricted area - an archetype that is largely obsolete as post touches continue to be superseded by screen and rolls or traversing the dunker spot.

Labissière’s career momentum slowed to a crawl by the final year of his rookie contract. A fourth year stop in Portland preceded an involuntary hiatus that endured from December 2019 to March 2025 when Sacramento tossed him a bone for 10 days. They severed ties once again after just 12 minutes across 4 contests.

Aside from spending the 2021-22 season in Puerto Rico, Skal has rode it out in the G-League to this day (and winning a title in ‘25) in hopes of clawing his way back into an NBA rotation. He has turned over a new leaf in 2025-26, doubling his 3PT volume to 6.2 attempts per game and burying 46.4% of said looks from range (while averaging 20 PTS & 7 REBs a night).

Skal’s 30th birthday is in a month, so the chances of a full-scale comeback are infinitesimal. But it’s better late than never on the shooting front.

The Box Score from the first clip (vs Al Horford in Single Coverage)

Date: March 25th 2018
Score: Celtics 104 - 93 Kings
Respective Records at this juncture: Celtics 50-23, Kings 24-50

Interesting (and uninteresting) Statlines:
Terry Rozier - 33 PTS / 5 REB / 5 STL / 12-16 FG / 8-12 3PT
Jaylen Brown - 19 PTS / 6-10 FG / 6-6 FT
Al Horford - 14 PTS / 5 REB / 8 AST / 6-10 FG
Jayson Tatum - 12 PTS / 7 REB / 6-10 FG
Semi Ojeleye - 9 PTS / 3-6 FG / 2-3 3PT
Greg Monroe - 4 PTS / 8 REB / 2-10 FG
Shane Larkin - 6 PTS / 4 AST / 2-3 FG
Jabari Bird - 0/1/0/0/0 in 9 mins

Buddy Hield - 21 PTS / 6 REB / 3 STL / 8-16 FG / 3-7 3PT
Skal Labissière - 14 PTS / 5 REB / 3 AST / 5-12 FG / 2-5 3PT
Willie Cauley-Stein - 14 PTS / 6 REB / 4 AST / 4-14 FG
De’Aaron Fox - 11 PTS / 5-10 FG
Frank Mason III - 12 PTS / 4 AST / 6-8 FG
Kosta Koufos - 8 PTS / 9 REB / 4-4 FG
Bogdan Bogdanović - 4 PTS / 3 STL / 2-10 FG / 0-5 3PT
Vince Carter - 5 PTS / 2-4 FG

05/28/2026

In the Knick of time.

Don’t grimace because it happened, smile because it’s over.

In honor of New York’s first Finals berth in 27 years, I figured I’d flash back to the height of Knicks despair and the nadir of the franchise as we know it. Although the exact point in time where rock bottom reared its head is also up for debate.

The fact that the “17-win Knicks” could refer interchangeably to either the 2014-15 or 2018-19 Knicks truly spells out the stress test of fandom that NYK fans endured for the better part of a century.

I was going to do a “which team was worse?” thought exercise and call it the David vs Derek Derby (or the Fizdale vs Fisher Fiasco). But both roster’s rotations and lineup machinations were so topsy-turvy that it was not worth my while.

Plus, the 2014-15 Knicks had half a season of Carmelo Anthony before being shut down. So at least Knicks fans in ‘14-15 could lull themselves into a false sense of watchability with a myriad of Melo jab steps, the occasional flurry of mid-post jumpers, and bask in star-level aura. And if nothing else, José Calderón was a steady hand at the helm amidst the carnage.

If you’re having trouble remembering, the ‘14-15 Knicks included Andrea Bargnani, Langston Galloway, Alexey Shved, Quincy Acy, Shane Larkin, Jason Smith, Lou Amundson, Cole Aldrich, and Cleanthony Early.

The only constants between both rosters? Lance Thomas and Tim Hardaway Jr. (who left then came back). New York truly gave LT a second lease on NBA life, despite the fact he was entrenched in a yearly circus.

I figured I would revisit the Kristaps Porziņģis (who was out for the season) that took place at the 2019 deadline:
- Mavericks got: Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway Jr., Courtney Lee and Kristaps Porziņģis
- Knicks got: DeAndre Jordan, Wesley Matthews, Dennis Smith Jr., a 2021 1st rounder (became Keon Johnson) and a 2024 1st rounder (became Kyshawn George)

Matthews played 2 games in a Knicks uniform before being bought out, DeAndre Jordan left as a free agent to Brooklyn in the summer, and Dennis Smith Jr. battled injuries as a Knick his third and fourth seasons before being traded to Detroit to bring back Derr

05/26/2026

The 37-point lead assassin.

If I blindly asked you how many field goals Stephen Curry had of this ilk, what would your guess be? Or alternatively what would be a worthy over/under.

On the one hand, he has been privy to the most dominant 5 year regular season run in NBA history. On the other, he sat more 4th quarters than any superstar we’ve ever seen because their games were functionally over before the end of the 3rd that frequently.

As it turns out, the answer is 5. A single field goal in 2015, ‘16, ‘17, ‘18, and ‘21. While I typically dispose of my IG character limit elucidating on the more obscure players that have grazed the NBA pasture, I am going to take this opportunity to say less and let Curry’s string of knife-twisting triples do the talking.

I am currently neck-deep in NBA draft scouting (hence the less regular posts), but I am nearing the end and will have my Big Board published on and here in a week or two so stay tuned.

I’ll get back to fulfilling requests once my draft work is wrapped up (I do my best to log each one 😂). Appreciate every like, share, comment, and follow. The FNBA momentum hasn’t stopped and there’s plenty more to come on the forgettable and non-forgettable fronts 🤝🏼

The Box Score from the first clip (Death, Taxes, and the Clippers catching a Curry stray):

Date: January 28th 2017
Score: Warriors 144 - 98 Clippers
Respective Records: Warriors 40-7, Clippers 30-18

Interesting (and uninteresting) Statlines:
Steph Curry - 43 PTS / 9 REB / 6 AST / 15-23 FG / 9-15 3PT in 29 mins
Kevin Durant - 23 PTS / 4 REB / 7 AST / 9-11 FG / 3-4 3PT
Klay Thompson - 16 PTS / 7-11 FG / 2-3 3PT
Draymond Green - 5 PTS / 5 REB / 5 AST / 4 Stocks / 1-4 FG
Andre Iguodala - 9 PTS / 6 REB / 5 AST / 3-6 FG
James Michael McAdoo - 10 PTS / 4 REB / 5-8 FG
JaVale McGee - 9 PTS / 4-5 FG

Blake Griffin - 20 PTS / 4 REB / 9-14 FG
JJ Redick - 13 PTS / 3-5 3PT
Austin Rivers - 10 PTS / 6 AST / 3-11 FG / 3-6 FT
Raymond Felton - 10 PTS / 7 REB / 5 AST / 3-12 FG / 2-5 3PT
Brandon Bass - 9 PTS / 5 REB / 4-6 FG
DeAndre Jordan - 8 PTS / 5 REB / 4-4 FG / 0-3 FT
Alan Anderson - 6 PTS / 2-3 3PT
Diamond Stone - 4 PTS / 1-2 FG

05/25/2026

Laker fans block your eyes and cover your ears.

What better way to usher in the post-Kobe era than by onboarding a pair of moribund veterans clogging up your salary sheet for four years (although neither of them repped the Purple & Gold for more than two). Lucrative deals that were a sunk cost from the moment pen was put to paper.

In Mitch Kupchak’s defense, the rationale was somewhat plausible despite the lofty financial commitment. A youth movement of Brandon Ingram, Julius Randle and D’Angelo Russell in need of wiser, steadier options to smooth things over in the near-term.

Timofey Mozgov was fresh off a genuinely decent championship stint with the Cavs (albeit relegated as their 10th man in the playoff rotation) while Luol Deng had a rock solid second run in Miami. Not to mention, one was a two-time All-Star while the other recorded 93 points and 29 rebounds in a game (cue the people in the comments saying “actually he never did that it was a broadcast error” - Yes literalists, we are well aware). Nevertheless, 4 Yrs/$64M and 4 Yrs/$72M respectively was as ambitious as it was myopic, even with the cap spike.

On the whole, and in retrospect, a team that had D-Lo, Swaggy P, Lou Will and Jordan Clarkson was simultaneously diabolical and fun as hell.

The Box Score from the Grizzlies game (the only game in this compilation that LA won):

Date: January 3rd 2017
Score: Lakers 116 - 102 Grizzlies
Respective Records at this juncture: Lakers 13-25, Grizzlies 22-15

Interesting (and uninteresting) Statlines:
Julius Randle - 19 PTS / 14 REB / 11 AST / 9-15 FG
D’Angelo Russell - 18 PTS / 6 AST / 6-9 3PT
Nick Young - 20 PTS / 6-11 3PT
Timofey Mozgov - 14 PTS / 5 REB / 6 Fouls / 7-12 FG
Luol Deng - 3 PTS / 6 REB / 6 AST / 1-4 FG in 31 mins
Jordan Clarkson - 16 PTS / 7 REB / 6-9 FG / 3-6 3PT
Lou Williams - 14 PTS / 4-9 FG

Marc Gasol - 22 PTS / 6 REB / 7 AST / 8-15 FG / 6-6 FT
Mike Conley - 21 PTS / 4 AST / 7-16 FG / 3-7 3PT
Zach Randolph - 11 PTS / 9 REB / 3-12 FG
Vince Carter - 12 PTS / 3-7 FG / 2-4 3PT
Andrew Harrison - 10 PTS / 8-10 FT
Tony Allen - 8 PTS / 4 REB / 1-1 3PT (Miraculously)
Troy Daniels - 9 PTS / 3-7 3PT
Chandler Parsons - 2 PTS / 1-6 FG

05/23/2026

The FNBA Logo himself.

Our equivalent of Jerry West, except he has 9 less Finals losses and an infinitely better jersey collection.

Tim Frazier’s phone had the “Need a Point Guard?” hotline on speed dial from 2015 to 2022. The quintessential NBA journeyman who embodies the mantra “stay ready so you don’t have to get ready” - more than likely living out of a suitcase season-by-season outside of a two season respite with extended season-long campaigns in Nola and D.C.

Tim graced the court for 9 franchises as a stopgap point guard over the course of 8 seasons, and had stretches of time where he was vacillating between the D-League and the majors to the point that he may as well have been touring the US like a musician.

Frazier is the type of dude who deserves endless props - an undrafted 6’0” guard with innate floor general propensities who stayed the course and used the D-League pipeline to his full advantage.

Early on, he sacrificed money that he could’ve raked in overseas, backed himself, and worked his way up each rung of the NBA ladder with little clarity, zero guarantees, and constant finger-crossing that an opportunity would float his way. Frazier logged 16-7-9 as a rookie in the D-League, and claimed both Rooke of the Year and D-League MVP in his inaugural season with the Maine Red Claws.

The ineptitude of the 2014-15 Sixers notwithstanding, when that first 10-day contract emerged in February 2015, Frazier wasted no time in leaving his imprint and proving his worth as a slithery ball handler and trusty organiser in the halfcourt. Not to mention a stoic 1-on-1 defender at the point of attack who punched above his weight and eschewed ball screens / locked and trailed expertly.

His NBA tenure can only be described as prosperous in the context of an undrafted diminutive guard who was forced to forge his own path, and make something out of nothing, from day one.

Post-NBA, Frazier has fully embraced the overseas experience, playing in Greece and France as a lead guard from 2022 to 2024. He took his talents to Brazil for 2025-26

05/23/2026

Everybody’s favorite large-vehicle / freighter-adjacent NBA rotation player.

The catch-and-shoot three connoisseur and ‘Clones legend himself, Bang Bang Niang. Or alternatively, Jumper’s Gorgeous Georges.

Aside from taking an educated guess at which players have been on objectively good or terrible teams (therefore with a higher frequency of bigger scoreboard disparities), there is no rhyme or reason to these videos. I’m just picking a figurative raffle ticket out of the bunch and rolling with it.

As it happens, two of these makes came on January 3rd exactly one year apart. I’m going to assume that Niang holds the all-time record for most field goals to extend the lead to 26 on January 3rd in NBA history, although that is not a statistical investigation I have the means or resources to verify (as much as many of you seem to believe I am capable of such wizardry). So instead I will expertly, and equally uninformedly, conclude “that sounds about right”.

The Box Score from the earliest of these baskets (clip No. 5) is below - coincidentally 59 points in a 30+ point loss for Devin Booker, the subject of yesterday’s reel.

And I just realized yesterday’s box score featured D’Angelo Russell, so there is an alarmingly coincidental pattern brewing. Pure happenstance that I will decipher as nothing else but a smile from the Basketball Gods for bestowing such ridiculously futile hoops content.

Date: March 25th 2019
Score: Jazz 125 - 92 Suns
Respective Records: Jazz 44-30, Suns 17-58

Interesting (and uninteresting) Statlines:
Rudy Gobert - 27 PTS / 10 REB / 9-11 FG / 9-11 FT
Derrick Favors - 18 PTS / 8 REB / 5 AST / 9-13 FG
Ricky Rubio - 18 PTS / 6 AST / 6-9 FG / 6-7 FT
Joe Ingles - 14 PTS / 7 AST / 6-11 FG / 2-3 3PT
Donovan Mitchell - 10 PTS / 4 REB / 4-14 FG / 2-4 3PT
Raul Neto - 8 PTS / 5 REB / 2-4 FG / 4-5 FT
Georges Niang - 3 PTS / 1-1 FG in 4 mins

Devin Booker - 59 PTS / 4 REB / 4 AST / 6 TOV / 19-34 FG / 5-8 3PT / 16-17 FT
Deandre Ayton - 9 PTS / 7 REB / 4-7 FG
Troy Daniels - 7 PTS / 5 REB / 3-8 FG
Jimmer Fredette - 6 PTS / 1-10 FG / 0-5 3PT
Elie Okobo - 4 PTS / 4 AST / 2-6 FG
Mikal Bridges - 1 PT / 4 REB / 0-5 FG
Ray Spalding - 0 PTS /

05/22/2026

The floodgates are open, the dam has broken, [insert metaphor where the prevalence of something multiplies in rapid succession here]

It was a wildfire reaction to the pilot reel of this variety, masterfully debuted by D’Angelo Russell, who many have since coined Max Kellerman’s Andre Iguodala equivalent in the event the death beam is pointed at Earth and you need to pick a player to score a bucket while down 30 or 31 points in order to save the fate of humanity. But I digress.

Blowout affairs, inconsequential buckets, and an astounding deficit-shaving frequency from your favorite (or least favorite) stars, pseudo-stars, and dime-a-dozen role players.

We’re upping the ante with mid-30s gaps on the scoreboard and an incumbent perennial All-Star at the helm. A player who, through no fault of his own, amassed an 87-241 record over the span of his rookie contract (a 26.5% win rate) including 4 different head coaches.

Until, of course, he and Ricky Rubio took over the bubble, turned heads, and the ensuing Chris Paul acquisition morphed them from the Bright Future Suns to the Promising Present Suns.

Shoutout Ricky Rubio for rallying that young core and positively impacting Phoenix’s culture - he does not get anywhere enough credit for shaping their direction. Sadly a Hall of Fame upgrade became available.

I envisage a post-career moment where a heckling fan asks Devin how many baskets he scored to trim the lead to 34 points, to which he responds “7 more than you”.

The Box Score from the Celtics clips:

Date: December 7th 2022
Score: Celtics 125 - 98 Suns
Respective Records: Celtics 21-5, Suns 16-9

Interesting (and uninteresting) Statlines:
Jayson Tatum - 25 PTS / 5 REB / 9-19 FG / 3-8 3PT
Jaylen Brown - 25 PTS / 7 REB / 9-24 FG / 2-8 3PT
Malcolm Brogdon - 16 PTS / 5 AST / 7-9 FG
Grant Williams - 14 PTS / 6 REB / 6-6 FG / 2-2 3PT
Luke Kornet - 12 PTS / 3 Stocks / 6-6 FG
Blake Griffin - 9 PTS / 9 REB / 3-4 3PT

Josh Okogie - 28 PTS / 7 REB / 8-14 FG / 4-6 3PT / 8-10 FT
Devin Booker - 17 PTS / 5 REB / 6-17 FG / 1-6 3PT
Cameron Payne - 12 PTS / 5-13 FG
Deandre Ayton - 8 PTS / 7 REB / 4-7 FG
Chris Paul - 4 PTS / 4 AST / 2-6 FG
Mikal Bridges - 4 PTS /

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