Dragan Bender 11 Points/6 Assists/7 Blocks Full Highlights (4/5/2019)

Is this it for Dragan Bender? Are we seeing the last few games of his NBA career before he schlepps back over to Europe, never to return? The Suns, as we should all know by now, declined to pick up the last year of his rookie deal. He's a free agent after this season, a situation eerily similar to what happened with Mario Hezonja. And we all know how that turned out (he got a triple-double, with assists that were way better than these).

This game might make a difference in whether another team signs him next year. No lie. Can you pass up on a still-young Euro big who is capable of putting up quadruple-doubles? Sure, he didn't actually get the quadruple-double, which would be the gnarliest thing to ever happen on an NBA basketball court, but it's as close as people get these days. 11 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 7 blocks. If he had started blocking shots earlier in the game, and been allowed to handle the ball as a PG (like Mario Hezonja tonight), who knows? It could've happened.

There's got to be some team who picks him up, right? He's been pretty bad in his three years with the Suns, but there's stuff to like. Stuff like his bigness, and his Euro-ness. You can look at his three-point shooting from last year (but not this year; what happened there?) and imagine him as some sort of multi-talented stretch-five. Kind of like a way, way worse Giannis but from Croatia instead of Greece. I'd take him on the Bucks, actually. Not even lying. Perhaps he just needs a change of scenery away from Phoenix, where there are actual expectations for him.

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