I’m not sure what we as NBA fans draw from yesterday’s OKC win over a Denver team which in essence lost two of their top five players in the first period.
And I’m not sure they even need to play tonight in this ridiculous back to back if Aaron Gordon is a DNP and Nicola is hindered shooting the basketball due to a reinjured elbow. Plus, add to the fact the Nugget’s 7th player in the rotation, Julian Strawther, was a DNP as well.
So, in essence, the Nuggets played three quarters of this game without three of their top seven players. What was the score when Gordon left the game never to return and then Nicola fell on his elbow? That was not Nicola after the first period fall.
I absolutely hate the fact the NBA scheduled these games back to back in OKC instead of spreading them apart on the schedule. These OKC-Denver games should be impactful games played on the NBA Showcase on different week-ends. Another blunder by the NBA. It’s why their regular season ratings are tanking.
Let me make this clear, in my view the Thunder are easily the prohibitive favorite to win the Western Conference championship and advance to the NBA Finals where I think they will lose to the Boston Celtics in six games if Porzingus plays for Boston.
I’ve been writing this for three months.
And in this Age of Trump…I will admit I think it would be a sad thing for a team from the extreme radical right like OKC to win a championship in what is predominantly a black league. A league of fair-minded owners as far as social justice. A league where I would hope there is little off the record tolerance for the brattish, racist behavior of Donald Trump
I especially would find it curious to know what both Shai and Lu Dort think of Trump’s boorish behavior in relation to Canada since both guys play for Team Canada.
I wonder if we would ever hear a question like that from the lips of Little Nick Gallo or one of his controlled fuckwits in a Thunder postgame presser?
The chances of that question ever being asked or answered are ZERO. ZERO.ZERO.
I’d love to see the question ask of MVP Shai. I would. Because I think he’s an extremely intelligent guy. A man I respect. In fact…I think Shai may turn out to be this generation’s version of Kobe. I came to love Kobe after he became a father and dealt with the self-inflicted demons of what happened in Colorado.
So, since this MJ has virtually no chance of ever asking that question of Shai at a Sam Presti/Little Nick Gallo presser..I’ll ask it rhetorically here on the blog this morning.
Shai, this is Mike Jackson from okcthunderground.com..”If you guys win the NBA Championship…how would you as a black Canadian deal with the things Donald Trump has said about blacks, Canadians, and the independent nation of Canada in general?”
I honestly would love to hear both Shai and Lu Dort’s thoughts on this.
That’s it for me today on my radical left blog where I’ll be endorsing John McCain or Navalany for POTUS in 2028 if I’m still breathing.
Eternal love, MJ