My wife is on a ten day beach trip at Emerald Beach in North Carolina. So this worked out perfectly as the diva lab Pauli and I have taken in at least two Summer League games every night.
These NBA kids and these games have been superb. The NBA may suck currently in Oklahoma, but elsewhere in the league where other teams haven’t foolishly pissed away their first round picks on physically weak and feeble whites from overseas—the league is on fire.
Can you imagine being a fan in Atlanta where you now have Trey Young nnd Sharife Cooper (War Eagle) on the same club?
Can you imagine being a Houston Rocket fan with Jalen Green and the Big Turk on the same team?
Not much from either of Sam Presti’s two first round picks as Giddy can’t play through a mild ankle sprain and Tre Mann has gone home for an undisclosed reason. Didn’t we just do this with both Terrance Ferguson and Alex Abrines?
This is not what Oklahoma City needed after the disgrace which the Thunder were in 2021. Those two wins against Boston and LA grate at me every time I blog anything about this NBA venture in Oklahoma City.
Apparently…Nick Collison’s role with the Thunder is being expanded this season and he will become the special assistant of Sam Presti moving forward. My suggestion to Clay Bennett is this move should occur immediately and that Nick’s role expands before the Thunder make anymore stupid personnel decisions.
I haven’t gone off yet on Presti passing on the Turkish center with our No. 16 pick. I’m trying to compose myself without even thinking of that piece of fiduciary malpractice. I’ll feature the Big Turk before the Summer League winds up. Once again the Houston Rockets take advantage of Sam Presti.
I’m just loving the games. I stayed up late last night to watch Austin Reaves and Jericho Sims. Then of course the night before I watched the game with Cade and Jaylen Green. Plus…I caught some of Jalen Suggs’ debut with Orlando.
But of course we in Oklahoma City don’t have Davion Mitchell, Cory Kispert, or the Big, Agile, Skilled Turk even though OKC could have had two of the three with the 6-16-18 pick configuration the Thunder had on draft night.
I wonder if Clay Bennett is concerned. His team seems to lack a plan. Their flagship blog the Daily Thunder is worse than listening to Michael. Cage. Homer pissant Little Nick Gallo’s hot takes aren’t much if they ever were.
There wouldn’t be much for Sam Anderson to write about this time around given the state of the Thunder halfway through this Summer League.
But for the rest of NBA fans in other cities this is some very lit stuff basketball wise.
Nick Collison…please save Sam Presti from himself and start putting a team together soon.