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Damn. That’s one angry woman with a very big chip on her shoulder. Granted…I agree with her in that pretty much every member of the United States Senate is a group of weaklings.

But I mean MJ says… damn.

This is the woman Sam Presti should hire to coach some snarl and nasty into Chet Holmgren. You put that face and attitude on top of Chet’s frame and you’ll see a 20/20 double double guy every night who never misses a game.

My second impulse would be to say something too sexually implicit for me to print on my blog.

So…again…damn, girl. Go get a guy and kick back a little if you know what I mean.

Being an honors graduate of the Bob Jackson School of Street Law…I was curious where one goes to get a law degree for a person with the skill set of Pam Bondi. So I googled it and it came up Stetson School of Law JD, University of Florida BA.

So right now if you’re on my blog and a person considering law school and you need a direction of sort, this is how I see it as far as law school choices… 1 Bob Jackson School of Street Law, 2 Tulsa University Law School, 3 OU Law School, and then 4 OCU School of Law. I was lucky in that I knew the dean of BJSSL. But I would prolly shy away from Stetson from what we witnessed this week from Pam Bondi.

Granted…that wasn’t a courtroom and she wasn’t obligated to conduct herself as an Officer of the Court per se. But I mean, when one sees the the top official/lawyer of the U.S. Department of Justice behave in that manner it makes this ‘law school graduate’ actually wish Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions were still around.

Not a good look for Pam Bondi, Stetson, and the United States of America.

And this in the same week Donald Trump and Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt had a Twitter war. But I guess…good for Kevin Stitt for not getting rolled as he usually does by POTUS 47. He finally stood up for himself a little bit. It must have been that 86% number he saw David Holt ring upearlier this week.

Have a nice weekend in purple Oklahoma County. Enjoy the All-Star break.

Mike J

I cannot and will not rant about the players in this current NBA. As a Stage 4 cancer survivor I feel it would be somewhat unseemly of me to do that given all the blessings God has given me these past three years, and for my entire life for that matter.

But after last night watching the OKC Thunder’s shameful performance versus the Milwaukee Bucks in a home game rout loss to a bad team missing both Giannis and Myles Turner…as a responsible, award winning NBA blogger, I can’t duck this on my blog.

Maybe when we get back from Colorado after the All-Star week has concluded, I can conceive a manner to address the culture in OKC in relation to the eggregious tanking and wanton sitting of players under the ‘guise’ of load management.

At some point…NBA fans are going to look you people running teams in the NBA– and say, “F–k this nonsense.”

But for right now…that’s not where I want to be both emotionally and spiritually.

So Steven A, please do this for me so as my PSA count doesn’t allow me a relapse or sorts. It’s all about spiritual harmony on the cancer journey. Trust MJ on that one. It’s not just the drugs.

Eternal love and peace,

Mike J.

Milwaukee Bucks 110 – OKC Thunder 93

It was supposed to be Nikola Topic’s night culminating his inspirational fight back from cancer, but evidently someone forgot to tell recently traded Ousmane Deng.

Deng evidently didn’t show Sam Presti enough for regular rotation time during his stay in Oklahoma. So what Mr. Deng just basically did on Thursday evening was a nice little thing for the Detroit Pistons as they now have possesion of the overall No. 1 seed heading into the All-Star break..as Mr. Deng and the Bucks without Giannis and Myles Turner blew out the Thunder by a score of 110 – 93.

The line for Deng is impressive…36:28 time on the floor, 19 pts, 11 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 blocked shots, +16.

No. 1 Star of the Game and not even close.

All-Star Chet Holmgren played, as did Jaylin Williams. But both paled to what Deng brought to the table on Thursday night.

In the Milwaukee offense…Ousmane Deng wasn’t relegated to standing still on the wings and pretty much doing nothing. Quite the contrary…it seemed or felt as if every Buck posession went through Deng he at the least got a touch.

How could this be? I mean…Ousmane looked beautiful. fluid, and smooth. Plus, he got it done on the boards and defensively as well.

This performance by Deng folllowed a 17 point performance the previous night in a win for the Bucks over Orlando Magic. Jared McCain is a nice pick up for the Thunder, but in getting him do we now ask ourselves…’Did the Milwaukee Bucks win the trade deadline?’

Two games isn’t enough time to answer my question above in the previous ‘graph’, but lest we forget Deng was the 11th player taken in his draft class.

So all things considered it was a good night for Ousmane Deng, the Detroit Pistons, and Ousmane’s agent.

In closing, my heartfelt admiration goes out to Nikola Topic for his comeback on his cancer journey. While we don’t have the same type of cancer, I know firsthand what it takes to hang in their during the toughest days of chemo.

Nikola Topic, my prayers are with you. You didn’t surrender. God bless you. Stay with the fight.

Mike J

Republican David Holt easily won his third term as mayor of Oklahoma City on Tuesday amassing an 86% majority despite becoming a cult favorite nationally because of appearances on MSNBC.

“Damn…MSNBC, that dude must be a communist or something.” That’s how stupid some of you Trump people sound at times.

86% in the capitol city of Oklahoma in the reddest, roguest state in the union. How does this happen I think aloud to the Democratic National Party? How does this happen?

It happens because when you do your job well, display basic pragmatic common sense, and steer clear of the bullshit rhetoric of both the Trump MAGA crazies and far left wing of the Democratic Party… adult, educated, hard working, reasonable people take notice.

Could David Holt win the state of Oklahoma in a gubernatorial election? Not a chance would be my response because the dynamics in Oklahoma City are in my mind only shared in two other Oklahoma cities…Norman and Tulsa. Ask former OKC mayor Mick Cornett if you doubt me.

You travel and fish the other 74 counties in this state as I have in my life and it’s a different world. Not a horrible world. A beautiful world in some aspects. A slower world. There’s many nice people in these other counties…there’s just not the same educational, economic, and societal factors melded into the mix.

Keep this in mind…Kamala Harris the most liberal Democratic nominee in my voting lifetime won 48.5% of the vote in Oklahoma City. While Donald Trump won just under 75% of the vote statewide.

And do you know why I ultimately voted for Kamala Harris? Because I was raised by a lawyer and the Rule of Law should be something every American holds dearly to their heart. You should also help underdogs like my Dad did as well.

So, again, my unsolicited advice as a former Republican turned Independent to the National Democratic Party would be to nominate a common sense, pragmatic candidate in 2028 who would appeal to a wider swath of Americans beyond the far left wing of their party.

I think I might cover the OKC Thunder at Phoenix Suns tonight on the underground blog. I love the flexibilty of my various beats. Berry Tramel should try something like this instead of what he opted to do. BT always has a part-time gig here if it wants to break free of the rabble with no consequences attached to your honest words.

God bless America.

Be kind to one another.

Mike J

No sports or snide comments in regards to Bad Bunny and Kid Rock. Let the rabble on both sides listen to what they may. At this point…I could care less. I have other things on my mind in regards to the cancer journey.

Tomorrow I begin the process of my next cancer drug. It isn’t chemo. It’s a new wonder drug which doesn’t obliterate my blood cells. It merely targets specific areas of concern like a drone hitting its target.

I’ve had a wonderful, blessed life either way this goes. My cup has runneth over…I can assure you of that. No regrets.

So I was thinking to myself yesterday…what is my favorite rock song of all-time? One which was concurrent with my coming of age as high schooler at John Marshall?

And it was easy once I allowed my mind roll back over all the wonderful memories. All the friends. The memories still with me.

And this is the song.

The song my buddy Rod ‘The Mule’ Carter (our place kicker) turned me onto in the locker room. Rod was trip. He quit being an offensive lineman after he parlayed an injury to our kicker his junior season to an All-City nomination.

He then told our offensive line coach he would never again practice as a lineman. He then told me his plan. He woud go to OU as a walkon and become Barry Switzer’s placekicker.

I almost told him Switzer had just signed a kicker named Uwe von Schamon. But I didn’t. I didn’t want to discourage him of ruon his plan.

So he went to OU…kicked well at his tryout and was told he could be a practice kicker. Rod thought it over and decided he’d get an enginneering degree instead, Which he did.

But for that moment, that instant…Rod was Almost Famous.

This became my coming of age song.

Have a nice evening.

Mike J

I passed on the Thunder-Lakers game tonight with both Shai and Luka sitting. I’m weary of the sitting games shit from the NBA players. Like I wrote on here earlier…it’s a good thing these dudes aren’t in the NFL or NHL. They wouldn’t last two weeks. Maybe I’m wrong, but it would appear to me the agents and players are on the cusp of eliminating any legitimacy of the NBA regular season.

When you combine this nonsense with tanking, with legitimate load management, with the perception of players loafing on defense, and the gambling stain from Portland…why would any fan continue to keep paying this kind of money for games where the players don’t play.

That was not a rant. Just a reality check.

Good game tonight in Charlotte where the streaking Detroit Pistons improved to 39-13 with a hard fought 110-106 win over the Charlotte Hornets who possessed a nine game winning streak coming into tonight’s game.

Cade Cunningham led the Pistons with a 33 point night and a near triple double. I followed every game Cade played at O State in his one season in Stillwater and none of this success in the NBA surprises me in the least. Cade is a dude. Kind of laid back at times, but a dude.

When you carry the Detroit Pistons on your back from where they were before Cade was drafted by Detroit…you know you have something special. Do you think JDub and Chet could have done what Cade has done to date with what was a moribund franchise?

Shai could, but not those two dudes from what I’ve witnessed to date. Again…not a rant, just objective observations from someone not on Sam Presti’s payroll.

I have no problem whatsover with Shai sitting right now…he’s worn out from carrying the team. The two dudes I just mentioned above need to step it up in a big way if nothing else just in an ownership sense of the team’s hiarchy which should go with being a max level player.

So my top four tonight on my ever sliding MVP scale goes… 1 Shai, 2 Cade, 3 Jaylin Brown, and 4 Jaylen Brunson.

There was a fight and mini brawl tonight in Charlotte. It was refreshing to see these guys actually cared enough to fight instead of just checking it in with a DNP.

In a just world…Adam Silver wouldn’t suspend these guys. What he should do instead is give them some sort of award for giving a shit in an NBA regular season game.

God bless Kid Rock or whatever that knucklehead’s name is as well. He even sucked more than Bad Bunny. This just makes my point in regards to both parties…they’re both inept and should be replaced with something else.

I think what I might do coming up is make a list of the current Thunder players who I think could have what it takes to be a hockey player.

Always be kind.

Mike J

I love Margaret and her show…Firing Line. I’m old enough and intellectually flexible enough to fondly remember the original Firing Line with William F Buckley as he dueled with the likes of Gore Vidal and other liberals. We don’t have anyone like those two nowadays, that much is for certain.

Well maybe, I shouldn’t say it…. but right here in Deer Creek on the blog from the mini-ranch you’ve got someone who could hang with Buckley and Vidal. Plus, the first time Buckley went off… I’d just punch him in the face.

BTW…vote for David Holt tomorrow in the mayoral election if you live in Oklahoma City.

My off the cuff guess is 80% of these dimwits in the MAGA movement haven’t read two books in their lifetimes and likewise don’t even know who Buckley and Vidal were. My additional guess would be this same 80% doesn’t know who George Will is, don’t know who owns the Wall Street Journal, have never read the Christian Science Monitor, and blindly accept Fox Network as a legitimate source of news.

I hate to be so brazenly blunt and to the point, but that’s just the way I see it— and this is my blog. So there. In Oklahoma…I may have even been generous for giving these MAGA dipshits credit for reading the before-mentioned ‘two books in their lifetimes’.

As I’ve embraced this day I’m stunned to discover that some actually thought the Bad Bunny halftime show was….good. It was trash and if this Super Bowl had been played anywhere but San Francisco I can’t imagine this would have been the manner in which to take on Donald Trump on the ICE crackdowns.

Donald Trump should be in federal prison for what he did on January 6th. I’ve never strayed from that sentence. But let me share this thought with you…if the Democratic Party had told Joe Biden he was not in any manner going to be the next nominee and the party had put forth a legitimate nomination process and put a candidate forward who couldn’t even make it into FIFTH PLACE in the 2020 Democratic primaries by the time the process reached South Carolina… maybe we wouldn’t even still be talking about Donald Trump.

Here’s how you liberals take on Donald Trump…you nominate a candidate who can win the SEVEN battleground states and ACTUALLY APPEALS to common sense, educated, pragmatic grownup people like me.

That’s how you take on Donald Trump…by winning the damn election. That’s how you acquire power in a democracy. Not by puttting a rapper on the stage as he gropes himself staggering around on the field of the Super Bowl.

Rant over.

I’m handing it over to Margaret and Captain O’Hara from the Minneapolis Police Department at this juncture.

God bless America.

And of course, BOOMER SOONER!

Mike J

Very nice. It was a very nice NFL Playoff run for Sam Darnold and the Seattle Seahawks. If Jerry McGuire was Sam Darnold’s agent he’d still have tears streaming down his cheek this morning for multiple reasons.

What an amazing testament to perserverance, faith, and just basically believing in yourself and those around you … but most of all, never surrendering.

Just beautiful from a human standpoint beyond the football part. That right there is what life is all about at the end of the day.

Joe Flacco’s Super Bowl win was pretty amazing with the Ravens. Peyton Manning’s Super Bowl with the Broncos sprang to my mind as well. But neither had been discarded to the scrap dump pile as was the case with Sam Darnold after the Vikings let him go after a 14-3 season.

I’m happy for Sam Darnold and what his teammates just accomplished. Other than the braindead play in the fourth quarter on the Rams’ sideline they played perfect complimentary football in this Super Bowl Tournament.

They dominated both lines of scrimage, ran the football good enough, the kicking game was just about perfect, and they played turnover free football for three straight games.

The game was horrible. New England’s offense was worse than bad and that weak schedule New England played to get to this Super Bowl revealed itself by the final margin. That last Seattle touchdown being called back was the difference between the 44 point over/under. You can imagine how the over players reacted on that flag.

The Green Day pregame music was good. I enjoyed it. The Bad Bunny rendition of West Side Story on a football field was horrific. Stop making political statements during a football game. If you’re going to put a rapper on the show then put him up there with his best song with as many half naked women as you can get on the stage and leave it at that.

Quite frankly…I thought my Bad Bunny presentation here on the underground blog was football fields better that the nonsense we viewed last night.

When you people on the far left perpetuate this type of bullshit…you give the Trump maga fake Christian ammunition for the culture arguments. Because any person with half a brain and one eye knows that halftime show was total shit.

Other than that…the marsala chicken was superb. I had two Samuel Adams non-alcoholic beers, and was grateful to still be living to take in Super Bowl LX.

I’ve now seen all sixty of them, and God willing I’ll see next year’s Super Bowl as well.

My two favorite commericals were the Free Bird Budwesier commericial and the Gronk…Get ‘Your Prostate Cancer Blood Test’ ad.

Seriously, guys…get your PSA blood test and don’t do what I did.

Eternal love.

God bless, America.

And Boomer Sooner!

Mike J

Super Bowl Sunday…I love it. Unlike the Trump fake Christian rabble who seem determined to eviserate our institutions and societal norms…I love America and the many freedoms we take for granted on a daily basis.

Thankfully… Trump won’t be at the game today to display his tiny little hands, his abdundant drooping jowls, and his overall sociopath inclinations. I do give his hair stylist some credit though for doing away with Denver Bronco orange hair tint. His hair color is the only positive I’ve observed in Year 1 of Potus 47’s reign of division to date.

You MAGA people gloating over your 401 accounts today…always member this about the markets…they are cyclical and you’re in a bubble right now which will correct itself at some point. Hopefully…you know what you’re doing beyond endorsing the end of the American Rule of Law. And hopefully you relaize as well this Potus and some of his loyal senators were playing the markets short at various intervals in the past twelve months. Some of those dudes made some serious coin.

As far as the game…I like Seattle to win, but not to cover the 4.5 spread. We have a coaching outlier in today’s coaching matchup…that being two head coaches from the defensive side of the ball. Mike Vrabel from the Patriots and Mike Macdonald from the Seahawks. This is very much a current outlier norm given most offensive NFL head coaching positions of late go to offensive coordinators.

I’m thinking something like Seattle 24 – New England 20…maybe something like that.

As far as keys…turnovers and of course the kicking game. Which QB takes care of the ball, which team can get some semblance of a running game going to keep the heat off their QBs as well.

A couple of secondary keys for me would be can New England’s defense ‘contain’ Jaxon Smith-Njigba and can Seattle’s defense ‘limit’ QB Drake Maye from running loose from quarterback flushes out of the pocket as the game wears on into the second half.

And as my third tier key..it would be rushing yards by Rhamondre Stevenson my former OU running back. How many yards from scrimmage can Rhamondre garner to keep the pressure off of young Drake Maye, who was my second place finisher for MVP only behind Matthew Stafford.

Let’s say 85 yards by Rhamondre rushinh the football. Can he get get that point in this game? I’m circling that on my sheet.

Anyway, enjoy the game, enjoy Bad Bunny, enjoy the freedoms we take for granted every day in America.

We’re having chicken marsala at our modest watch party.

May the best team win.

Mike J

Pretty good game to watch actually the day before the Super Bowl. I have to start off with this …. if you’re one of these dumbass Thunder fans who’s still booing Kevin Durant ten years after the fact..I can only say you make Oklahoma City look stupid.

Good lord. Put the dumbass redneck nonsense away. You booed Kevin who got you to four Western Finals and one NBA Final…and yet you cheered Jared McCain and are still booing Kevin.

It’s a dumb look. Period. You must best not be readers of the best content underground blog in the NBA.

As far as the game…I found it entertaining even with both teams missing three key players each.

In the end no one for the Thunder could step up at Winning Time with Shai flaunting the Bad Bunny pimp look over on the Thunder bench.

Let’s cut to the chase..without Shai the Thunder woud in my mind be a second round exit in the Western Conference Playoffs, and the other two AT&T guys who signed max deals need to be able to not wilt in games at the end when Shai isn’t available…for how much longer that turns out to be.

Somebody has to step up, period.

My Three Stars of the game all go to Houston players…1 Tari Eastom, 2 Alperin Segun, and 3 Kevin Durant. Plus, I thought Reed Sheppard played a functional second half at the point guard spot after being very shaky in the first half.

On the Thunder side, both Cason Wallace and Isaiah Joe were pretty good. Two SEC guys…one from Kentucky and one from Arkansas. I have to give Isaiah Joe some props on here…I’ve been very impressed with the overall advances in his game and his improved physicality on defense. Denver could use someone like Isaiah next season. He would be a nice replcement for Tim Haraway’s who’s playing on an expiring contract.

I found it interesting there’s talk of Fred VLV’s possible return from the knee injury this season. If that’s the case, and he can fill some point guard minutes combined with what I saw from Reed in the second half..that would make it where Amen Thompson doesn’t have to play the point anymore. Amen Thompson is a beast defensively, but not the guy I want running my offense.

It was the Thunder’s 13th loss… same as the Detroit Pistons who destroyed the Knicks on Friday night without Duran.

I’ve jiggled my MVP ladder around…I now have my top four in this order…1 Shai, 2 Cade, 3 Jaylen Brown, and 4 Jokic or Wemby.

Get well, Shai. They need you, and give that coat to Doris Burke. She needs to pep up her look quite a bit.

Mike J