Today marks the beginning of a new project here on The Friendly Bounce. Each morning you’ll be seeing this post, which will serve as a roundup of the previous night’s action from across the Association.
And each moment that we share will be graded with an appropriate emoji, because basketball is fun and emojis are fun.
Welcome to the BAE index.
Russell Westbrook talking smack to some fans
Fan: "You can shoot all you want. Come to L.A. We got rings."
— Darnell Mayberry (@DarnellMayberry) November 17, 2014
Westbrook: "Get yo ass out of here and go back to L.A."
I love Russell Westbrook so much, and moments like this are we must protect #LetWestbrookBeWestbrook at all costs. If there is a task force out there to protect him let me know so I can join, and if there isn’t, let’s start one right now.
Giannis throwing down some jams
Giannis is another one of my favorites, and a patron saint of The Friendly Bounce. I’m so glad he’s playing well this year and looks like he’ll be a real player, because I don’t know that my heart could take it if he wasn’t.
Andre Iguodala playing defense
Poor Jeremy Lin. You have to imagine he’s rethinking signing in L.A. right now.
Patrick Beverley and Scott Brooks getting in a ref’s face
This was so strange. I’ve never seen a coach sprint out on to the court like that while an opposing player is in the ref’s face. There aren’t too many legit rivalries in the league these days, but man, the Thunder and Rockets just do not like each other.
Chris Bosh stuffing Giannis
Giannis made a nice drive and thought for a second that he was going to throw down another nice dunk, but Chris Bosh had other ideas. But the Bucks still got the road kill, so everything’s good in Milwaukee.
Lakers running the worst fast break of all time
Hahaha, wow, wow, wow. This is the Lakers’ season in a nutshell. You should get an easy dunk or layup every single time in that situation. If I wrote for a Lakers site I would have just posted this Vine as the recap.