Sam Presti State of the Thunder Union–May 2018

I’m putting this on here only because I want it archived for this fall when I’m writing my book. In length, the press conference was about an hour in length. I made it thru about ten minutes before I became bored and turned it off. Maybe there’s something to be said in what I just wrote from an analogy standpoint. In that after a certain amount of time it appeared from the outside looking in Billy Donovan’s team stopped listening and became bored with him and with themselves.

I expected Billy Donovan to stay as coach and he will. No shock there at all.

Here’s what I would write at this point though in looking forward.If Paul George leaves and the Thunder get out bidded in unrestricted free agency with Jerami Grant–who would be the Thunder’s third best player next season.

The Thunder simply cannot keep Carmelo Anthony because there were a couple of thousand empty seats in OKC for Game 5 and for the first time in the Thunder Era there was booing of the home team.

The booing of the hometown Thunder was a first in the decade long era of innocence in Mystery, Alaska.

What this really boils down to is that for the first time minus the departure of Durant—the innocence of this college market has been exposed to the hard core reality of the harder side of the NBA as a very tough business.

My favorite basketball book of all-time is David Halberstam’s Breaks of the Game about the Portland Trailblazers ’79-’80 season.

As a Thunder fan—I’m locked into three things right now..1 Paul George’s decision, 2 a graceful exit of Carmelo, and 3 if Jerami Grant decides to leave in July.

Billy Donovan is a sidenote.

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