Oklahoma City Thunder 119 — LA Clippers 117
I have a suggestion for NBA commish Adam Silver, since none of the teams in your league seem to have any interest in playing an 82 game regular season then why not shorten the season to 72 games and give the players some rest and save the fans from watching this bullshit.
For the second straight home game, Oklahoma City fans wasted their time and money on a game which ended up being another version of junior varsity basketball at NBA ticket prices. No Blake Griffin, who’s still serving a suspension for bitch slapping one of his own trainers. No Chris Paul, no DeAndre Jordan, no JJ Redick, no Paul Pierce. But plenty of Jamal Crawford and Austin Rivers who had their way pretty much all night against a Thunder defense which gave up 69 first half points against these guys.
I must confess, I fell asleep at least four times and changed to Lawrence O’Donnell at least another six times in hopes of seeing something interesting on television…so I have no idea who purported OKC lockdown defender Andre Roberson was guarding, but evidently Roberson wasn’t in prime Bruce Bowen form tonight.
Please read this Adam Silver—this game had less appeal than a Texas Tech vs. TCU girls softball game. Less interest than watching to see if Donald Trump even knows what he supposed to say about abortion as a Republican. And certainly less appeal than Lyin’ Ted Cruz dicking with Trump about his wife. This was completely gongable.
Kevin Durant played 40 minutes after sitting out the contest against former teammate Reggie Jackson on Tuesday night. But I guess if you calibrate the fact no one wearing a Thunder jersey played any defense whatsoever, I’m to assume that calibrates into Durant actually playing 24 real game minutes tonight.
By the grace of God and a Steven Adams tip with 29.6 seconds left, this one ended in regulation.
In theory this could have been Kevin Durant’s last regular season game in Oklahoma City since only one more home game on the regular season slate remains with the dumpster fire and in turmoil LA Lakers coming to town on April 11th. I refuse to even go into the Russell-Nick Young sexual wiring fiasco in as I’ve seen enough of that from Trump and Cruz of late.
Adam Silver, again I write this… if you’ve got a gong, please gong the rest of this NBA regular season away except for the Warrior vs. Spurs games.
Mike Jackson
I was in Loud City for the game last night. It was a stretch going to a late game on a work night–especially with an hour drive each way. Well worth it though . . . fantastically entertaining down to the final seconds. I guess you had to be there.