Here’s the thing I’ve taken most from from my Stage 4 cancer situation…. Life is like a book per se. You have a prologue, the book itself which contains multiple chapters, and then you have an epilogue. The truth of the matter is I don’t know how many chapters I have left in my book.
I don’t know if I have enough chapters left to wait for Sam Presti and his ever evolving process to turn into something which might resemble a special or memorable NBA basketball season in Oklahoma City.
MJ the Book is somewhere in the epilogue. How many pages that epilogue is remains to be seen. I hope it’s a mega alpha epilogue, but I’ll just have to see.
I watched about five minutes of this Sam Presti pre-season presser and became hoplessly bored and stopped watching. I did like the line where Presti said, ” Some people don’t even know what they don’t know.” I like that.
I might insert that from time to time with the Berry Tramel Taco Bell line here on the modest blog which is getting ready to focus on the Golden State Warriors, LA Lakers, Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks, and Miami Heat.
You have to understand…when I spent Father’s Day week in Denver in the midst of the NBA championship parade it was like an epiphany for me. It was like God saying, ” Mike enjoy this. Carpa diem, bud. I’m looking out for you. You don’t have to follow that nuanced tanking bullshit any longer. I’m not sure how many pages you have left. My sway can sometimes be calibrated.”
I’m not at all upset with the Thunder. That 2012 season will be one for the ages which no real NBA fan should ever forget because freaking godforsaken OKLAHOMA CITY made the NBA Finals with Kevin Durant showing everyone in the basketball world it’s okay to dream big.
My take on the Thunder is this…I have no take. I have no projection what soever on how many games this still brutally young team might win this season in that the Western Conference has only one team in the Portland Trail Blazers who look to be worse than a season ago.
Here’s what I would say about the Thunder. This team has some fabulous young men who will provide many exciting minutes and maybe even challenge the Minnesota Timberwolves for second place in the Northwest Division. To me that would be a great acheivement for this Thunder group beyond the fact the Thunder still posess 15 first and 22 second round draft picks in the next seven years.
You see…I can write that above paragraph because I am smart enough to understand what it is I don’t know about what lurks in the recesses of Sam Presti’s basketball anal retentive mind.
So….the NBA season starts this week and my basketball heart will be shared in equal parts between the Golden State Warriors, the Denver Nuggets, Austin Reaves, and Jrue Holiday as a Boston Celtic.
But when the Thunder do something noteworthy… I will write about it on my completely honest underground blog which isn’t owned or steered by Little Nick Gallo and that bunch.
In closing, in thinking about this GOP Speaker of the House nonsense….you know what the Dems should do….they should nominate either Liz Cheney or Adam Kensinger and dangle these phony make believe conservatives and see who votes how on that ballot.
Peace.
MJ