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I haven’t written anything on here in regards to Donald Trump in quite some time and I’ve written nothing to date about the Mueller Report. I don’t need to read the Mueller Report because I already knew as the son a really good trial lawyer that collusion with the Russians would be an extremely difficult thing to prove in an American courtroom.

I already knew Trump was a human junk bond so it’s not like even now I care what’s inside the Mueller Report.

He’s a pussy grabber. He’s a liar. He’s a cheat. He’s a rogue, a grifter, little-handed motherfucker with a tiny dick who needs to get off by bullying others even though his top tier escort wife has taken on the issue of bullying as her First Lady national cause. He doesn’t even have a dog because no dog would claim this piece of shit as his owner.

But I will give him this–he does fully understand how far America has fallen from a cultural standpoint and knows how to exploit this on a Twitter account.

And I have to admit as a rogue Thunder blogger…whenever I see our own Little Nick Gallo and Low Energy Royce Young trying to do whatever it is they think they’re doing with Russell Westbrook…I start laughing so hard it’s as if I’m young again and reading a Dan Jenkins novel in my high school American Lit class.

Who could make this shit up?

I mean–this is straight out of Sam Anderson’s Boom Town if he had stayed around this long to extend his book. But of course—he would have spared Low Energy Royce Young because they’re friends.

Only in Oklahoma could an NBA team spend $200 million dollars on a season and finish in 4th place in the Northwest Division, go 1-3 against the last place Timberwolves…and then not fire their college coach even though they hedged the $6 million by dumping TLC’s salary and tax implications at the trade deadline.

Only in a place where Mary Fallin could be elected to two terms as governor could something like this happen.

I’m okay though. It isn’t my money or my team. I call it Oklahoma Crazy, not Boom Town.

And you know who are the happiest people on the face of the earth this morning? Kevin Durant and his entourage because they have been fully vindicated by what has been displayed in Oklahoma City since the departure on July 4th, 2016.

It was like listening to Trump hit the 10,000 lie plateau in his historically corrupt presidency. Does Sam Presti think every human on the universe only reads Low Energy Royce Young and Little Nick Gallo?

I was embarrassed for him…and the lip smacking. He literally drove me insane with the seemingly never ending lip smacking. First thing you learn in a college speech class is no gum chewing and no lip smacking. I knocked them dead with my final speech in my college speech class. Sam Presti is not in my class in that regard.

It was as if this was his first rodeo giving this speech.

I’m not sure Sam Presti hasn’t been given way too much credit for being a basketball savant.

Okay. Portland took Greg Oden in the draft. Then as we know everyone’s grandmother would have taken Kevin Durant as the second player in the draft.

So without Durant—Sam Presti is 4-12 in post season as a GM with one of the league’s highest payrolls these past two seasons.

That’s just a fact.

But he’s in Oklahoma and like when Trump is in West Virginia… they both know they can make up anything and the local simpletons will nod their heads.

The parts about Russell Westbrook’s three point shooting and the absence of the always fragile Alex Abrines as being factors which he couldn’t have forecast left my jaw agape.

Wow. Seriously…wow.

Keep chucking threes Russ because we all know Alex Abrines will be back from Spain to get the Thunder over the hump next season.

I’ll do this blind without even knowing the Thunder’s roster or schedule next season…. OKC will be a first round exit again next season and be the No. 8 seed in the West.

This morning I was driving my truck and Rocket Man by Elton John came on and it reminded me of Sam Presti. He kind of reminds me of a one-half ET and a one-half Mr. Rodgers.

So it’s not like I’m expecting anything of consequence tomorrow at his faux presser. He’ll feed these Okie dimwits what they need to hear to write their almost virtually unreadable stories. It’s pathetic…like I said yesterday…like Trump at one of his rallies in West Virginia telling those idiots coal is the ticket.

I think about this constantly…of Oklahoma, West Virginia and Alabama—which one is the dumbest state in the Union…and, uh, I can never really come to a conclusive winner.

I haven’t written anything yet on our corrupt grifter president and the Mueller Report because there’s been too many great things going in the world of sports. I may try and work something in on Donald Trump later this week and start breaking down the Vegas odds on the 2020 presidential election. CSPAN and Nate Silver have both sent me private messages telling me they like my political stuff and would be interested in co-linking. We’ll see.

My grandson…Baby Robert—went on a five mile hike straight up a mountain just outside of Denver yesterday and evidently all went well. Chris and Elaine both love hockey and are going to the Colorado Avs Game 3 tomorrow night at the Pepsi Center. Avs have the next superstar in the NHL in # 29 MacKinon on their team, please make sure and watch him play.

I just hope at the Presti presser that his henchmen don’t pre-script questions for Little Nick Gallo and Low Energy Royce Young to ask fluffers to make the mood easier than it should be considering how badly the Thunder have underachieved these past two seasons.

Warriors one up on the Rockets and the Celtics finally flexed their muscles in their opener at Milwaukee. I’m rooting for my buddies Terry Stotts and CJ McCollum’s father to beat Denver, but I think they’ll really miss Nurkic in this series because Denver’s coach (Mike Malone) will not be outcoached like Billy Donovan was in the first round.

I’m not losing any sleep over the Thunder. They’ve become anecdotal at this point and I don’t want to change the domain on my blog.

I haven’t played this in the month of April and I have to play it at least once a month to get thru the presidency of Donald Trump. So if you’re white, and if you’re poor, and if lightening quick Sec of Commerce Wilbur Ross isn’t laundering any cash for you yet in his Cypriot bank….this is for you.

I’m beat. Tough day. I could use a Diana Krall song. Too much rain.

This blog wasn’t put in place to give readers the usual dose of rainbows and butterflies they might get from other Thunder blogs. This blog was put in place because as a long time NBA fan I became frustrated with the low level of coverage provided in this market minus when Berry Tramel feels as if he’s seen enough.

So I know we have this big Sam Presti event coming up this next week. Apparently… he’s going to do his best job of imitating Donald Trump at a West Virginia rally explaining why coal should be the fuel of the future. Just so we’re clear Thunder fans…you’re West Virginia and that wasn’t a compliment if you think it through.

I was actually going to pull up Carmelo’s exit interview from last year and came upon this. Again, if I could unload Russell Westbrook and the worst current contract in the NBA for say Buddy Hield and D’Andre Fox or Marcus Smart and Jayson Tatum—I would jump all over it not think twice.

I wouldn’t blink. So, for the second straight Sam Presti State of the Union Speech—the general manager of what was in 2016 still America’s Team before the Game 6 meltdown against the Warriors holds in his hands the worst current contract in the NBA.

Carmelo, actually of the three, might have been the most lovable guy at the podium. But there is a sweetness about Paul George I have to admit.

What I would give to have an OKC Thunder media pass just to be able to ask Russell Westbrook three questions before being escorted out of the media room.

Denver, in beating the Spurs tonight in Game 7, won their first playoff series since 2009 when Carmelo was still the face of the Denver Nugget franchise.

I would assume the 2019 version of Sam Presti’s State of the Thunder will be coming sometime early this next week.

I don’t know what else to say. So…I’ll post this and then hear what his spin is on the current state of the Thunder and then make a post of some sort on here.

Presti is definitely a smart dude, but I get this feeling he doesn’t have the ability to admit internally he may not always be the smartest guy in the room.

He and Clay Bennett have quite bit on their table right now so the best of luck to them as they navigate through this summer figuring out –what’s next for the Thunder?

The Thunder season is mercifully over, yet there’s been so many great things in sports recently it’s not at all that big of a deal to me. Life goes on and besides I was pulling for Terry Stotts. The NCAA basketball tournament was excellent with Auburn, Virginia, Texas Tech and Michigan State. Tiger’s win at the Masters is one which will go down for the ages. And who knows maybe in these NBA playoffs we might have something great lurking with this Houston-Golden State series which in my mind pits the two best two teams against one another in the Western Conference semis.

I love the Stanley Cup Playoffs. For me, there is nothing like playoff hockey. There is a sheer beauty in the speed, skill, smarts and toughness which is the essence of hockey played at the highest level on the biggest stage.

Like in the NBA, a team has to win four series and sixteen games to hoist the cup. Unlike with the NBA though, there is still a respect for the manner in which the game is played at all times and not the allowance for all the superstar nonsense.

In the first round both in the East and in the West the No. 1 seeds Tampa and Calgary were eliminated rather easily. The East lost both of their premier stars from the tournament both Ovechkin and Sid Crosby’s teams were both eliminated. This won’t be good for television ratings I would think, yet the games go on and an eventual champion will be crowned.

The Boston Bruins are my team. Always have been since the days when I was a kid and Boston’s Triple A affiliate was right here in Oklahoma City. My two favorite players of all-time are both Bruins… both defensemen. Bobby Orr and Raymond Bourque. Both won Cups. Orr won two with Boston before his knees gave out and Bourque never won a Cup in Boston, but did win a Cup at the twilight of his career with the Colorado Avalanche.

I’m not sure who my third favorite player is at times…it changes from time to time. Not Gretzky for sure—he was a pretty boy who needed an enforcer. A real hockey player can do these five things…skate, shoot, pass, check, and fight when you have to command your space on the ice. Maybe Gordie Howe is my third favorite player.

Anyway, with all the top teams minus Boston in the East falling in the first round Vegas probably has the Bruins as the team to beat in the East. But I take nothing for granted because hockey is a sport where you have to earn every inch and every goal to survive through the bracket and advance. Columbus will be tough.

Tough to glean much from this one way or another. You would have hoped for a little more self examination from a team standpoint, of why OKC is 4-12 without Durant, but to me way too much was centered on stats, triple doubles, and things which Russell Westbrook feels can’t be taken away from his individual legacy regardless of if the Thunder ever win a first round series again.

I don’t find Russell Westbrook to be either an interesting or compelling interview. I found myself listening to his gum chomping cadence as much as anything.

He never once to me articulated if all this post season losing hurt him in a serious way.

I didn’t take much from this either way. If you told me you could trade Russell for Marcus Smart and Jayson Tatum… I’d do it. If you told me a package was possible which would include DeAndre Fox, Buddy Hield, a big or perhaps a draft pick as well…I’d do it. If something reasonable is out there…I’d seriously explore it moving forward.

Bottom line…you can’t win in the NFL with a QB who almost every time it matters throws two picks in the fourth period in a game when it really matters. Russell Westbrook is that NFL quarterback analogy-wise.

If the singular goal for Clay Bennett and Sam Presti in OKC is to see Russell Westbrook break the career triple double record then they’re on track. But if the goal is to be post season relevant—I don’t see that with Russell Westbrook in Oklahoma City. What I see is the worst current contract in the NBA looming over the Thunder’s head.

First off…Jim Traber is my slam dunk winner for the best Thunder coverage of the Oklahoma City Thunder this basketball season. Not even close. His work and his sense of humor were the only things from this market which I at all found consistently entertaining.

I went Mark Rodgers at No. 2 and Dusty D at No. 3 with Berry Tramel at No. 4.

The Thunder youth demographic which evidently reads Low Energy Royce Young and Little Nick Gallo did not crack my Top Ten. You can’t be a love slave to your Thunder employer and make my list. You at some point have to construct an honest paragraph to make my list.

So…Traber’s Theory of Thunder Punkification goes that the idiotic public relations department and Sam Presti of the Thunder has allowed the petulant Westbrook to spread punkism throughput the whole team.

I do agree Russell Westbrook is now regularly behaving like a punk, but I don’t think this has spread throughout the entire team. When your point guard and ‘leader’ behaves like a punk then it’s really hard to confront him if the coach, general manager and owner won’t do the same.

Hence, one of Kevin Durant’s major complaints abut the Thunder…they wouldn’t reign Westbrook in and make him accountable. So–I wouldn’t just blame Billy Donovan for what has happened here. I would hold Clay Bennett and Sam Presti as equally responsible for the Punkification of the Thunder in what is a market which describes itself as being a Christian faith based city.

I guess the part where you look up into the stands in Utah and tell a woman you’re going to f–k her up is a part I missed in the New Testament. Or where you every game tell the game officials they’re full of shit on national television. Or the part where you act like a ten year old dropping F bombs after making a shot in the second period. Or the part where you curse to the other bench. Or the part where on certain nights you tell yourself to f–k off on the court. Or the part where you don’t answer Berry Tramel’s questions, yet answer three questions in a row to your boy pet gerbil…Little Nick Gallo.

This is so odd to me. Because when I became a father and my wife had our son…I got my act together. Yet with Westbrook, the exact opposite apparently has happened. What would you say to your young son after acting like an idiot on television? What kind of example is that? Do I go too far in saying Westbrook is almost as bad of an example to young men as the grifter Donald Trump?

Are you kidding me, Oklahoma City Thunder organization?

So.. I guess the Oklahoma City Thunder are having their exit interviews today to explain this Titanic of a basketball season.

Perhaps, this would be an appropriate time for Sam Presti to apologize to the season ticket holders for what they just pissed their money away for thinking they were going to see a professional basketball team with the third highest payroll in the NBA.

If you watched this team you knew this was how it was going to end. I wouldn’t call them punks, but I would and did repeatedly call them soft and heartless through the course of the season.

No mental toughness to go along with all the faux tough talk.

If I were Clay Bennett and my ownership group was getting ready to write that $60 million dollar luxury tax check…what would I do?

Would I fire Billy Donovan or Sam Presti? Could I somehow get some quality in return for the worst contract in the NBA with Russell Westbrook being sent somewhere?

If nothing else, just to moderate my anger the first thing I’d do is fire every person in my Thunder public relations department. That’s the first thing I’d do.

The next thing I’d probably do is let the Florida Gators have Billy Donovan back, but give him his $6 million and a warm handshake so long.

What human could coach Russell Westbrook? Does this person exist?

Westbrook shouldn’t feel completely lost. Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Caps were just knocked out in the first round in a double overtime loss to the Carolina Hurricanes.

Winning championships in pro sports aren’t an easy thing to do unless you join the loaded Warriors. Ovechkin has one championship. Dirk has one championship. Bill Walton has one championship. Dr. J and Maurice Cheeks have only one championship. Charles Barkley, Reggie Miller, Patrick Ewing, John Stockton and Karl Malone never won a championship.

What Russell Westbrook and his teammates need is a coach who will demand toughness, smarts and accountability.

I have no idea who that coach is at this moment.

Quite frankly, I’m glad it’s over and I was rooting for Terry Stotts and his team to advance. I hope they keep it going and beat the winner of the Denver-San Antonio series as well. As I’ve written on here before–back in my college days–Stotts was a key piece on an OU team which won it’s first ever basketball Big 8 championship in the late 70’s.

I’m happy for Terry Stotts and his fabulous guard tandem of Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum. The team lost Josef Nurkic in the last weeks of the regular season and just kept coming and finding ways to win. I’m also happy for Enes Kanter for getting to have this moment in his professional basketball career.

As far as the Thunder—they are in basketball hell right now and Clay Bennett has some very serious thinking to do in the coming days to decide what to do with this team which quite frankly has been the biggest joke in the NBA for two years running now. We won’t be needing to witness Carmelo Anthony’s exit interview as an alibi as to what has gone wrong with what was as recent as 2016…the NBA’s version of America’s Team.

I’m not Sam Anderson. I’m not a liberal from the NY Times Magazine writing a book on urban renewal in Oklahoma City correlated with the Thunder basketball operations.

I’m very confident in my ability to tell this story as someone who’s lived this and knows sports…especially from a basketball perspective interwoven with a complete understanding of having lived most of my life in Oklahoma.

When I started this blog… not long after my father was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. So–in reality…this is the first year of my blog as it took me some time to adjust from what happen with my dad. But I did archive and outline on here and now I’m ready to go.

First and foremost–I’m a fan who wanted the Thunder to succeed. But I’m not a fan who’s a homer or who has a quid pro quo attached to making a living by running a Thunder blog or creating a Thunder brand which generates revenue.

I set out on this simply because of my genuine passion of sports and basketball in particular. I found it fascinating that in a place like Deer Creek, Oklahoma…players like Chris Paul, David West, Tyson Chandler, Kevin Durant, James Harden, Russell Westbrook and Paul George would be playing for an NBA team twenty minutes from my front door. Truly amazing what Hurricane Katrina set in place back when all this started.

So much has transpired from a basketball standpoint in this time span. It is not an exaggeration to claim only behind the Warriors have the Thunder been the most compelling NBA story during this time span

But as I sit here this morning–the Warriors are in pursuit of a threepeat and fourth championship in five years, while the Thunder have not won a playoff series since Durant’s escape to Oakland in July 2016.

The Thunder are a collective 4-12 in playoff games without Kevin Durant being the face of the franchise. With Durant—this franchise made it to four Western Conference Finals and the one NBA Finals in 2012.

The story here is very simple after last night’s ending in Portland–that ending being… the championship window in Oklahoma City officially ended.

We know the Russell Westbrook era doesn’t have a championship parade ending… or at least with Westbrook as the starting point guard.