Thunder Start Tank March in Game 2 Loss to Lowly Wizards

If you looked at the Thunder schedule in these opening fifteen games you figured this home game versus the lowly Washington Wizards and Scott Brooks to be a win for the Thunder.

Not to be though as the Wizards without John Wall and with Bradley Beal having an awful night went on a 14-0 run to cement a loss for the Thunder… but which is in actuality a win for the tanking Thunder.

For those needing some semblance of a recap the final score was 97-85.

Moving forward this is how the Thunder fanbase, Lollipop Twin Little Nick Gallo, Michael Cage, and the lost generation of millennials over at Daily Thunder herein after referred to as Neverland should view a loss.

Namely a loss is a win. A loss moves the Thunder up the list in the draft pecking order which is good because since the drafting of Reggie Jackson late in a first round way back when even Lollipop Twin Gallo would have to question the wisdom of drafting of Cameron Payne, Mitch McGary, Josh Huestis, Terrance Ferguson, and Darius Bazley.

And of course there was the drafting and signing of Spanish folk singer Alex Abrines to satiate the shooting guard woes after the one year rental of Kevin Martin who could actually shoot a basketball.

Presti didn’t trade Jeremy Lamb–he only traded James Harden for Lamb, the pick which led to Steven Adams, the rental of Martin, the Euro folk singer Abrines,, and the draft pick which led to cannabis savant Mitch McGary. So we shouldn’t hold any of this against Sam Presti because the trade to send Serge Ibaka to Orlando would have been brilliant if any of those players were still in Oklahoma City.

The Thunder now stand 0-2 after two games and with another home loss on Sunday afternoon to the rebuilding Warriors could stake an early claim to prime lottery territory fifty days before the December 15th marked tanking date for the NBA land rush for future prospects. Hopefully–Sam Presti can at some point perhaps draft a prospect who can shoot a basketball.

Anotherwords, the Thunder should cheat the tanking process and break early before the official gun sounds. Just like the Sooners did back in 1889 in the historic land run.

SGA was once again stellar in this loss to the Warriors, Danilo Gallanari was efficient, and Diallo showed some life, but otherwise the Thunder appear to be a dumpster fire in prime shape for an historic tank which might render the Chesapeake Energy Arena half empty before the Christmas Day games in which the Thunder used to be asked to participate in by the NBA.

There is a karmaesque justice in all of this though as the people in Seattle take great joy in witnessing this from afar in the Pacific Northwest.

Perhaps a trade could be made between the cities. Seattle will have an NHL franchise next season and Oklahoma City has their basketball franchise held hostage in a place where the David Duke candidate garnered almost 70% of the angry evangelical white vote.

This makes no cultural sense whatsoever. Whites dominate the NHL. Blacks dominate the NBA. Think about what I just wrote and take notice of how well the NHL franchises have done in Nashville and Las Vegas.

Seattle please call OKC mayor David Holt and take the high ground here. Be like Michelle Obama and go high despite what these Trump people did to you over a decade ago. David Holt—don’t be stubborn and go talk to the mayor of Nashville about what an NHL franchise has meant to their city since the Preds made the Stanley Cup Finals several years ago.

Has this ever happened before?

I don’t think so. But think about what I’ve proposed.

An inter-sport franchise swap would align two polar opposite cities, cultures, and fanbases to their rightful destinations in major league sports.

Why not?

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