This doesn’t really shock me that the once preeminent Oklahoma City Thunder blog of Royce Young has been sold. I mean…when you go an entire NBA season with one of the league’s highest payrolls and decide to use Little Nick Gallo as your go to guy you should be bought by someone else. I hate to sound cold, but in the name of blogging and writing when you sell out to that degree you should be bought by someone who gives a shit about the content of their blog.
Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers you should have SOME PASSION FOR YOUR BLOG. Some pride in what you write. A blog is a place where one writes from one’s heart and not where you monetize ads. A blog should be personal…. as in personal to your heart.
Daily Thunder at one time was the place to be and it may well still be, but those who were around in its better days know how far the content of the blog has fallen.
To me, the thing which made Daily Thunder somewhat different was that it had an edge defined by its message board and commenters from all over the globe who became Thunder fans during the golden years of Kevin Durant and Company.
I hope the new owners have some ideas which goes into having some content and having some edge to that content.
Daily Thunder clearly has the most prominent brand of any Thunder blog and that coupled with the affiliation to ESPN should be enough to keep it as such. But again—content would be nice. Having someone with no financial ties to the Thunder would be nice. Telling it like it is would be nice.
Kevin Durant isn’t around any longer. Nor are Harden or Westbrook or Paul George. It will interesting to see how these guys do having a strictly Thunder concept. It will be interesting to see Oklahoma City’s interest in a team which will be tanking this basketball season once a destination for Chris Paul is determined.
I wish the new owners well. There should be a Daily Thunder and I hope they help DT find its way back.