Chris Paul Sits in Loss to Dallas Mavs, 107-97

It was a night when in reality I think most in the NBA would have preferred not playing games if possible. In fact, the emotion is still so raw in LA the Lakers-Clippers game tonight has been postponed. All across the league even in culturally regressed Oklahoma City—there was a hushed awkward feel as the game went on with the exception of Chris Paul.

Chris Paul sat and we saw what the Thunder looked like without their best player and easily their MVP this season.

What we saw was a group of young players missing their veteran point guard MVP who without him would have been the No. 11 or No. 12 seed in the West.

Such a bizarre week for Oklahoma. Kobe passes. Both Oklahoma senators prove me right with their cowardice not even considering witnesses in the Trump impeachment trial. Then new Tea Party governor Kevin Stitt bans any state funded travel to the state of California.

So I’m just sitting here wondering in reality should Oklahoma even have an NBA franchise in the first place. I don’t write this like some goofball extremist, but rather I sit here wondering how it is a place like Oklahoma even has an NBA franchise in a league in which around 75% of the players are black and 70% of the state voted for a president who was endorsed by David Duke.

Hypocrisy much?

I don’t know. One week removed from Martin Luther King Day something has gone off in me which says this isn’t right. Even in diversity challenged Utah they have politicians like Mitt Romney and Mike Lee who have openly challenged the grifter racist Donald Trump.

But in Oklahoma with the exception of Kendra Horn and former OKC mayor Mick Cornett… not a whisper, not a word. Not a hint of even a thread of any moral outrage at what is transpiring in our country.

Nothing.

What would happen if owner Clay Bennett a Heritage Foundation Republican to the core came out in public and torched Donald Trump as any reasonable person should have done by this time? What would happen if he showed that type of courage to have his black players backs in a market dominated by the racist Tea Party mentality?

I wonder if the young black Canadians Shai Alexander and Lu Dort think this is awkward and makes no sense whatsoever. I can’t imagine at this point being black and from Canada or even California wanting to play in a city like Oklahoma City.

At some point somebody in this market needs to show some courage and in reality it needs to be Clay Bennett. You won’t lose the tax cuts and the two uber right Supreme Court justices, but you need to say something publicly.

Mitt Romney from Utah is going to vote to hear John Bolton later this week in the trial. My guess is five or six other Republicans could do so as well. We sure as hell know the two cowards James Lankford and Jim Inhofe from Oklahoma won’t be two of those—but somebody in Oklahoma beyond a first term congresswoman needs to step up. If for no other reason than to show the two young black Canadians what kind of city they’re playing in?

This ain’t no Toronto for sure, we know that, but even the Deep South had Atticus Finch. Please say something, anything…Clay Bennett.


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