Sam Presti’s Exit Interview

Oh, boy. Here’s Sam Presti’s 2022 exit interview from Monday. Anything I’m writing on here is with complete detached emotion. I have quite a bit going on in my life. Sports have always been a passion for me. What Sam Presti said in this interview in no way has an impact on my life.

My take from all of these words being said by Sam Presti is that in all likelihood the Thunder will be tanking again next season somewhere after the first 28-30 games are played.

This will not affect me in any manner.

I’ll do exactly what I did this past fall and winter. I’ll maybe attend 4-6 Thunder games to see some up and comers from other teams. I’ll follow college basketball. And I’ll follow 4-6 NBA teams who are trying to ring the bell.

I’ll become emersed in college football and the NFL. I will not in any way allow my spirits to be dimmed by Sam Presti’s tanking Thunder.

As a grandfather of two, I will make sure my priorities are in line and look out for my mother as well.

My lab Pauli will be my side and hopefully our retirement home which is being built currently at Lake Sequoyah ten miles east of Fayetteville will be completed a year from now.

My cup runneth over. What Sam Presti does or doesn’t do has virtually no tangible impact on my life. As in none.

I’ll keep the blog domain to cover the other sports and spend very little time on the Thunder unless they fool me and play a real basketball season of 82 games. I’ll occasionally say something snarky directed towards the Daily Thunder human rabble as well because deep down in places they hate to admit exist…they love me doing this. They need me on that fence as their antagonist. They want me on that fence.

Actually, I feel fortunate I got to watch the Thunder with Durant for a decade be the ‘It Team’ in America.

What Sam Presti never said in this morass of mealymouthed words is the sentence by which everything Thunder should be measured from the past and into the future.

Four words.

Portland took Greg Oden.

Otherwise, all this bullshit we heard on Monday is just window dressing because most of the people in Oklahoma are too stupid to know any better.

And heading into the 15th year of Thunder basketball, Sam Presti’s Thunder still have never won a first-round playoff series in their existence without Kevin Durant carrying their lunch boxes to the team bus.

So, if I were an NBA securities trader like on Wall Street, based on this wussy interview Sam Presti just gave in the land of Oklahoma’s passive submissive sports media…I’d bring OKC’s projected win total down from 36-38 games towards the 29-32 range.

It was a stellar day for OKC Jim and not so stellar for 405Baller. It affected me not in least…because I have a life. A very nice in fact.

Carry on, Thunder Nation.

My grandson is visiting tomorrow and Wednesday. I can’t wait.

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