I have to tell you…I’m a little overwhelmed on the blog this week. The Sooners hoopsters jumped to No. 12 in the Coaches Poll, Ernie Johnson was honored in the Hall of Fame, Austin Reaves is still on a torrid pace carrying LeBron and Anthony Davis, and the Draymond Green sentencing phase for his most recent eggrious offense will require an editorial of some sort by the executive editor-in-chief of the okcthunderground.com blog sometime tomorrow.
What a week!
Who says I need Trump and his rabble to fill the content voids on an Oklahoma City Thunder blog?
BTW…before I get started on David Holt…he was the Little Marco Rubio Oklahoma Chairman for that epically failed presidential run back in 2016 when we all thought Donald Trump running for Potus was just a joke to attract Twitter hits and troll Hillary Clinton.
Fast forward to now. Oh, wait….add the Big Orange staying out of federal prison to that list as well for reasons for POTUS 45 to seek a second term.
So….the Thunder’s deal to build a new billion dollar arena passed yesterday with the yes votes carrying a resounding a 70% plurality despite this perhaps being the worst major league venue deal for a city in recent contemporary memory.
The 95/5 ration of investment is pathetic, but I’m in no way a martyr of any sort …so I didn’t vote either way yesterday considering my health prospects of this even being germane to me at some point in my life before the year 2030. I have my own issues to be focused on.
The Warriors, Austin Reaves’ Lakers, and the Nuggets will still travel to play here while I’m still living and that will be fine with me out here at the Deer Creek mini-ranch.
Maybe not so much for the poor people in Oklahoma City who could use a better system of education, a more diverse economy, relief from not having a home, drug addiction rehab facilities, and more police driving our streets.
I wonder if in hindsight if David Holt was a fiduciary for any of those people who can’t even afford to attend a Thunder game despite the fact for the last three years… the Thunder in attendance have ranked dead last, dead last, and are now ranked near the bottom again despite an exciting young team which is near the top of the Western Conference standings.
If your own nan base can’t fill the upper levels of the arena….then why not give those tickets away to people who could not otherwise attend?
So I laughed when I saw David Holt exclaim he and Oklahoma City just beat the world. What in fact happened was Clay Bennett and his ownership group got a sweet deal.
Just my take.
Peace.
MJ
- Editor’s note: In case you didn’t notice today… Jerome Powell and the Fed declared there will be no other interest rate hikes and the Dow accordingly crested above the 37,000 plateau. And just so you know…Donald Trump had virtually nothing to do with this happening.