{"id":66893,"date":"2025-04-19T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T20:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=66893"},"modified":"2025-04-19T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T20:32:36","slug":"kyle-kuzma-played-22-minutes-and-did-absolutely-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/kyle-kuzma-played-22-minutes-and-did-absolutely-nothing\/66893\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Kuzma played 22 minutes and did absolutely nothing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBA playoff games are high-stakes, high-intensity, and usually bring out the best in players. But Kyle Kuzma\u2019s<\/strong> performance on Saturday night in Indiana? Let\u2019s just say it brought out\u2026 nothing.<\/p>\n

Literally.<\/p>\n

The Milwaukee Bucks forward<\/strong> was on the court for 22 full minutes,<\/strong> nearly a quarter of the game, and didn\u2019t record a single point, rebound, assist, steal, or block<\/strong>. Nada. Zilch. Zeros across the board.<\/p>\n

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Kyle Kuzma full stat line looked like this:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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    0 points<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    0 rebounds<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    0 assists<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    0 steals<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    0 blocks<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    0 impact<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    He missed all five of his shots<\/strong>, including two from three-point range, and even botched both his free throws. So yeah, it wasn\u2019t just a quiet night \u2014 it was a full-on disappearing act.<\/p>\n

    And fans definitely noticed.<\/p>\n

    Social media lit up when Kuzma checked back into the game late, like everyone was waiting to see if he could at least grab a rebound or hit a bucket. But nope, he walked off with the shutout still perfectly intact.<\/p>\n

    To be fair, Kuzma has been decent since joining the Bucks<\/strong>, putting up around 14 points and 5 rebounds<\/strong> a game. But the Bucks got him in a trade that sent Khris Middleton<\/strong> (yes, older and injury-prone) to the Wizards, and suddenly that deal is starting to look a little shaky.<\/p>\n

    Saturday\u2019s game against the Pacers<\/strong> was fast-paced, high-energy, and Kuzma just couldn\u2019t match that speed. It was like watching someone try to sprint on a treadmill set two levels too high.<\/p>\n

    To make it even more awkward, fans on X (formerly Twitter) dug up the only other time this kind of thing happened. Tony Snell<\/strong> once went 28 minutes<\/strong> in an NBA game with all zeroes. Yup, Kuzma joined that elite \u201ccardio-only\u201d club.<\/p>\n

    So sure, he didn\u2019t help the Bucks win. But hey, at least he got a good workout in<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    NBA playoff games are high-stakes, high-intensity, and usually bring out the best in players. But Kyle Kuzma\u2019s performance on Saturday\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":66894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[25830,571],"class_list":["post-66893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-kyle-kuzma","tag-nba"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}