I refuse to write very much about a G League team in Oklahoma pretending to be an NBA team.Two seasons of tanking in a row should be some sort of NBA by-law, but hre we are entering the third season of tanking fo the Thunder.
If you count the Sonics last two seasons in Seattle before the move to rogue red Oklahoma this franchise will have tanked six out of their last seventeen seasons in two polar opposite culture and appearance.
That’s 35.2% of possible regular season games played where the Sonics/Thunder have pre-ordained intentional losing as the their mode of sustainable operation.
If Oklahoma City is viewed as this big of a redneck shithole oil town by NBA players who won’t ever come here as free agents or trade possibilities then the team should be moved to another city.
At some point you have to give your fanbase an entertainment product on the floor which is watchable.
It’s like watching the never ending depiction of Oklahom by John Steinbeck in Grapes of Wrath. It’s sad to witness.
At some point you have to go out and play legitimate games where the loss isn’t pre-determined by Sam Presti.
I’m not a season ticket holder, but I do usually buy enough games through a ticket broker to equal a mini-package of sorts.
When you lose a guy like me who’s been a passionate NBA fan through the mid-sixties it says something. To me…it says you don’t care about having smart, passionate NBA fans in your fanbase.
Colin Cowherd has it completely right on this video. The Golden State Warriors are the team every basketball coach at every level wants his/her team to play lke.
Do any of you Thunder fans honestly think Steph, Klay, Draymond, Andrew, and Kevon Looney would lose games intentionally?
The Warriors lost Otto Prter and Gary Payton this offseason. No sweat. THeir GM Bob Myers knows what he;s doing and has James Wisman, Johnny Kuminga, and Moses Moody to fill those minutes. If anything….the Warriors should be better this season.
And that’s precisely why since Game 6 in 2016 the Warriors have become an iconic dynasty and the Thunder became the fodder for a book by Sam Anderson from the NY Times Magazine titled Boom Town.