So here we are with fifteen games left in a season which really to date has never gotten off the ‘runway’ so to speak. I think back to the summer and those images of Paul George and Carmelo Anthony arriving at the Oklahoma City airport as if they were conquering gods of some sort. I looked at those white people lining those fences in the Oklahoma summer heat and thought to myself are you people fucking crazy. I bet 80% of those people were of the Trump deplorable genre. Isn’t it amazing. Dave Chappelle knows though, that dude knows.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Paul George is a helluva player, but bringing Carmelo on board never did anything for me, but by the same token I didn’t see Kanter or McDermott as players who would have taken the Thunder any higher than sixth place. So it’s not like their departures hurt going down the road.
As I look at the standings this morning the Indiana Pacers are making a run for fourth place in the East while the Oklahoma City Thunder are in essence a worse team than last year’s rookie scale contract laden team. If the Thunder lose tonight they’re even in the loss column with the Clippers, the Nuggets, and the Utah Jazz. Such is the reality on March 10th for the Thunder and the Pacers.
To date—the Pacers have won the trade and it will be a complete slam dunk if Paul George leaves this summer as nothing more than a one year rental on a team which grossly underachieved. On the flip side, Sam Presti traded away two very promising young players in Oladipo and Sabonis for…. this season. This run at a championship which would show Russell Westbrook he could compete for championships in Oklahoma City without Kevin Durant.
This season, fifteen games left and to date it has been a complete and utter failure. Portland beat Golden State last night and you would think any chance of the Thunder winning the Northwest Division or the No. 3 seed is gone. Depending on the ankles of Anthony Davis the No. 4 seed is a murky goal at best.
But here’s the thing if this Thunder team could just pull their head out of their ass maybe the West isn’t a Golden State cakewalk if Steph Curry’s ankle doesn’t hold up or maybe the post season demons once again haunt Chris Paul. Maybe. You never know. That’s why you play the games.
So is tonight a must game against the Spurs?
You would think so because OKC has three teams behind them in the standings which are even with them in the loss column. Plus, OKC needs this tiebreaker with the Spurs. You would think OKC must win this home game against a Spurs team without Kawhi Leonard.
You would think.
In essence… tonight in Oklahoma City is a playoff basketball with the Thunder hosting the Spurs on the ABC Game of the Week. Back when ABC scheduled this game they probably figured they had a marquee game on their hands. But in reality it’s a game pitting two teams clinging at the bottom of the Western Conference qualifiers for a chance to finish at No. 6 in the West and avoid the Warriors and the Rockets in the first round.
Who would have thought last summer this would be what all those white Trump supporters at the OKC airport would be standing out in the heat for?
I’ll say this though, as I look at the video I don’t see one Deplorable white face pressed thru that chain link fence filled with anger. Not at all. Just some white people with the hope Paul George could be Kevin Durant again in Oklahoma City.
You know how I love this video. I just can’t get enough of it. You dumb motherfuckers.