There has long been a trope on the various basketball-related corners of social media of accounts sending out perennial reminders about how “people forget (player x) was a BUCKET,” usually followed by a highlight reel of a player no one forgot was good and/or a couple of snort emojis. It’s something this blogger has poked fun at in the past, but even I am willing to potentially cross over into self-parody with the following statement, given the way the NBA internet writ large has talked about Anthony Davis for much of the year and a half or so:
People actually forgot Anthony Davis was a BUCKET.