First off…Jim Traber is my slam dunk winner for the best Thunder coverage of the Oklahoma City Thunder this basketball season. Not even close. His work and his sense of humor were the only things from this market which I at all found consistently entertaining.
I went Mark Rodgers at No. 2 and Dusty D at No. 3 with Berry Tramel at No. 4.
The Thunder youth demographic which evidently reads Low Energy Royce Young and Little Nick Gallo did not crack my Top Ten. You can’t be a love slave to your Thunder employer and make my list. You at some point have to construct an honest paragraph to make my list.
So…Traber’s Theory of Thunder Punkification goes that the idiotic public relations department and Sam Presti of the Thunder has allowed the petulant Westbrook to spread punkism throughput the whole team.
I do agree Russell Westbrook is now regularly behaving like a punk, but I don’t think this has spread throughout the entire team. When your point guard and ‘leader’ behaves like a punk then it’s really hard to confront him if the coach, general manager and owner won’t do the same.
Hence, one of Kevin Durant’s major complaints abut the Thunder…they wouldn’t reign Westbrook in and make him accountable. So–I wouldn’t just blame Billy Donovan for what has happened here. I would hold Clay Bennett and Sam Presti as equally responsible for the Punkification of the Thunder in what is a market which describes itself as being a Christian faith based city.
I guess the part where you look up into the stands in Utah and tell a woman you’re going to f–k her up is a part I missed in the New Testament. Or where you every game tell the game officials they’re full of shit on national television. Or the part where you act like a ten year old dropping F bombs after making a shot in the second period. Or the part where you curse to the other bench. Or the part where on certain nights you tell yourself to f–k off on the court. Or the part where you don’t answer Berry Tramel’s questions, yet answer three questions in a row to your boy pet gerbil…Little Nick Gallo.
This is so odd to me. Because when I became a father and my wife had our son…I got my act together. Yet with Westbrook, the exact opposite apparently has happened. What would you say to your young son after acting like an idiot on television? What kind of example is that? Do I go too far in saying Westbrook is almost as bad of an example to young men as the grifter Donald Trump?
Are you kidding me, Oklahoma City Thunder organization?
So.. I guess the Oklahoma City Thunder are having their exit interviews today to explain this Titanic of a basketball season.
Perhaps, this would be an appropriate time for Sam Presti to apologize to the season ticket holders for what they just pissed their money away for thinking they were going to see a professional basketball team with the third highest payroll in the NBA.