Sam Presti of the defending NBA champion OKC Thunder held his first presser of the season on Thursday. The theme was obvious…get better, work harder, and know the challenge of getting out of the West with Denver, Houston, Minnesota, San Antonio, and maybe even Dallas stronger this coming season. When was the last time both Steph and LeBron weren’t in this discussion? Or either for that matter? Think about that one.
Denver basically overhauled their roster this past season. In fact, I would say at this point before the start of camps OKC and Denver are my 1a and 1b picks to win the NBA championship this coming season.
But I’m going to come back Monday with Presti’s talk and my start to the NBA season here on the Underground Flagstaff Blog of both the 1a OKC Thunder and 1b Denver Nuggets.
As I’ve stated previously, no one other than MJ is better prepared for this coming OKC-Denver showdown. Not Barkley. Not Kenny or Shaq. Not even Michael Breen and Timmy Legler…although MJ has immense respect for the insights of Tim Legler.
It’s been an emotional roller coaster of a week here in Oklahoma this week, what with Mike Gundy and the jackal Ryan Walters both exiting the spotlight…so I thought I’d do something light and fresh heading into my Game-Day Saturday College Football coverage…that being, to share this great story from Robert Redford about his close friend Paul Newman.
It made me laugh and we need more laughter in these trying days in America.
Eternal love.
Mike J