We were robbed of a potential 40-burger from Doug McDermott due to the disgusting and blatant tanking of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Al Horford is fine, dammit. Just put him in the game. Where's Adam Silver? Isn't he supposed to be protecting the integrity of the game? Because there was nothing integritous about this shameful display. Silver can punish teams for talking to Bogdan Bogdanovic a little early, but there are no repercussions for making a mockery of the league by not even pretending to want to field a good team? Sure, the Pacers were hot. But that doesn't mean you get to go out there and be down by 50 for basically the whole game. I want a handwritten apology from Silver, RIGHT NOW, and that apology has to include a part where he expresses his regret that McBuckets didn't get the chance to score 40. It has to be notarized; I don't want any sort of forgery by one of his secretaries or something. And if I don't receive the apology letter within three days of this writing, I'll head over to New York and notarize his forehead with my nutsack. So there. As it stands, this only ties a career-high for McDermott, matching a point total he had with the Bulls all those years ago. He scored his final points with three minutes to go in the third quarter, to put the Pacers up 57 (Silver how can you stand by and just let this happen you alien-looking creep), and that was that. In a closer game, he'd definitely have gotten to come back in and continue coming off screens for threes/making timely backdoor cuts. I'm too lazy to look it up, but I'm guessing that he also tied a career-high in steals this game, with one. You even get to see it, right before his final shot. That's basically the only way he can get a steal, is if the ball randomly ends up in his hands. So that's another thing we were robbed of: the potential for him to set a career-high with a mind-blowing TWO steals. Unlikely, but it could have happened. We'll never know. Thanks, Silver. All clips property of the NBA. No copyright infringement is intended. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/downtobuck Website: https://downtobuck.net/