Even when they’re both tanking…Bob Myers gets the best of Sam Presti. I couldn’t even watch this bullshit as it unfolded in front of me. The Thunder played their tanking roll to perfection for most of this game as they trailed the G League eight man version of the Thunder for most of the night.
Then… the Thunder inexplicably rallied at the end to lose their loss and absorb a win in their quest for the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft.
If you love professional wrestling—this is your season as an OKC Thunder fan.
The Thunder get their first road win and now stand 1-6 on the road. Consider this though—take away the three wins from this Walking Dead version of the Warriors and the Thunder are right there as the NBA’s worst team with a 2-11 mark in the quest for the first pick in this summer’s NBA draft,
Who would have thought this time last season we would see Sam Presti and Bob Myers at this point with their respective franchises this quickly?
Golden State was literally decimated by injuries and had no choice while the Thunder had to cut ties with Russell Westbrook’s contract for obvious reasons.
But the fall to this extent this fast is stunning to witness even when you know the teams are tanking.
But the Warriors have three rings, while the Thunder have the dubious distinction of being the NBA franchise which had Kevin Durant for nine years and didn’t win anything.
The Warriors with Steph, Klay, Draymond, Looney, whoever they get for D’Angelo Russell, and whoever their No. 1 pick is this summer will be back next season.
And as it turns out not a bad year for the Warriors to be in rebuild in San Francisco as the 49’ers appear to be headed for a run at making the Super Bowl if they can get by the Seahawks and the Saints.
With the Thunder though it will be a much longer rebuild if ever depending on how much luck Sam Presti has with his draft picks. But it will be a glorious ESPN 30/30 film. No rings, but an epic 30/30 film.
So on a night when the Thunder should have lost to the Warriors they screwed around and won…which is a loss.
Sam Presti needs some theme music for tanking. This seems about right.