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My, my, my….. isn’t Little Donald Trump something? In this video I’ve mercifully posted on Trump of his brutal/horrific management of the coronavirus situation which he personally worsened a hundred times fold—he’s doing two things which he should continue to do moving forward.

1 He’s hiding his tiny woman-like little hands behind his folded arms,

and

2 Allowing people around him who are much smarter than him to do the talking in things coronavirus, oil, Putin related.

I could go into much deeper detail as to all the harm this POTUS has wreaked upon what was once known as the United States of America, but I don’t want to be on here when it is revealed that the country with a $22.5 trillion dollar economy has a president who finally pulled his head out of his ass and started testing Americans for the very virus which has shut down President Obama’s once robust growing economy.

The end.

What a week in Oklahoma City. Where do I start? Do I start with the part where Donald Trump got absolutely torched by Vlad Putin on the oil markets or the part where he handled the coronavirus threat like a third grade flunky?

And in Oklahoma of all places on the world stage Donald Trump’s acute incompetence on almost anything with the exception of pussy grabbing with his tiny little hands was exposed to the world.

On the NBA front, Oklahoma City’s game with the Utah Jazz was postponed by the NBA because Rudy Gobert evidently has the virus which can’t be tested in America even though Trump constantly boasts of Obama’s $22.5 trillion dollar economy as if it were or was his own.

Even more to the point any third grader with any science common sense whatsoever knew this was coming the way of the NBA and the NCAA Basketball Tournament as the virus has spread across the continent. Since you know–no one in the country evidently knows how to test for the virus.

I wonder if in Bernie Sanders health care plan they’d be able to test for coronavirus?

What a bad week for Oklahoma City as both Devon Energy and Continental Resources have been absolutely ravaged by Donald Trump’s ignorance and indifference to energy production in America. Let’s put it this way…if you were an investor who wanted to acquire either Devon or Continental a decade ago….it would have cost you around $80 billion to purchase one of these two Oklahoma based companies.

Tomorrow? The markets are already set to open down another 1,000 points before the opening bell. You could probably purchase either Devon or Continental for around $5 billion each if you were into acquiring an energy company on the cheap.

What a great thing it was to have Scott Pruitt as head of EPA and Rick Perry as head of Energy with another reality television star in Lawrence Kudlow running the show. I guess we should be surprised Wilbur Ross got the nod over Mary Fallin to head Commerce….right?

I seriously wonder what thoughts are running through Clay Bennett’s head right now as I finish this post?

I watched Trump’s pathetic eleven minute speech to the country tonight instead of the Utah Jazz at the Oklahoma City Thunder. What a downer on both counts.

Starting with tomorrow’s opening bell on Wall Street it will become official….that being, the end of Barack Obama’s eleven year Bull Market is over. It was raped by the guy with the very little hands who has in his lifetime ruined everything and anything he’s ever been involved with as an owner.

In closing, this thought strikes me most…what does it say about our country that the NBA commissioner Adam Silver is ten times more qualified to be the POTUS than the fool living there now?

It will be a tough time for Oklahoma City in the coming days as oil continues its slide in the Trump economy to levels below the $30 per barrel dollar level. But to help assuage the pain—at least Oklahoma City has an NBA team with a veritable truckload of grit and character.

In easily this season’s biggest win, the Thunder answered every challenge on the road against a Celtics’ team very capable of winning the Eastern Conference. It could be hyperbole on my part, but I would rank this road win in Boston as one of the three greatest regular season wins in the history of the franchise being in Oklahoma City.

Again—the coming days for companies like Devon and Continental will be looming with profound challenge, but at least Oklahoma City has a basketball team to be proud of in every way.

I know this for certain—this Thunder blogger is proud of the team. This game encapsulates everything good about this team and why it was smart not to tank in a year in which the Dow coupled with depressed oil prices would have put an even darker cloud over the city. But, hey…the Trumpsters here in Oklahoma have their guy and none of this was of Obama’s doing.

So this game. Wow. Does Chris Paul have the biggest set of balls in the NBA? I would say maybe.

This was a game in which Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was a pregame hip contusion scratch. Then there was the 18 point deficit to the Celtics in the second period. Then after scratching, clawing, and bleeding the Thunder pulled even and had three free throws taken away from them on an overturned call. Then there was Steven Adams predictably clanking two huge late game free throws which should have caused the Thunder to lose this game.

There was all of this…and yet Chris Paul with that big sets of balls of his steered his team to victory.

With around 11 seconds left the Celts had the ball with a one point lead and one assumed Billy Donovan with two timeouts would play the foul game.

Not so much. Billy D ordered a backcourt trap of Kemba Walker by Chris Paul and Dennis Schroder. Chris Paul turned Walker into Schroder and lo and behold Dennis Schroder took the ball and scored the game winning layup with eight seconds left on the clock.

Just to solidify his mythic god status set of balls…Chris Paul then stoned Jason Tatum’s last shot as the Thunder won their 12th road game out of thirteen since this team found itself after Thanksgiving.

NY Knicks…are you listening? RJ Barrett, Julius Randle, and two first round draft picks–Sam Presti will think about it.

Chris Paul finished the night with a line of 28 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists. His point guard soulmate partner Dennis Schroder went for 26, 6, 2 and the game winner. This was their signature game of a season in Oklahoma City which most likely won’t end like the Washington Nationals’ improbable world championship.

But what this team most likely will end up with is being the team most loved and respected at the end of the day in Oklahoma City.

Thank you, Chris Paul.

What a game for Austin Reaves last night in Fort Worth as he scored 41 points plus the game winner to in essence put OU into their sixth NCAA Tournament in the past seven seasons with a clutch road win at TCU.

After somewhat choking at home on Tuesday night in the final minutes against Texas, the Sooners basically had to win this road game to get itself off the bubble and into the tournament field.

OU was down by eighteen points at one point in the second half, but never gave up and rode Reaves’ OU career game to the final shot with 0.5 left to advance to the NCAA Tournament. The comeback from18 points on the road is an OU school record.

OU is the kind of team which will have a chance to win a game like they did last year in beating Ole Miss in the first round before bowing out to eventual national champion Virginia in the second round.

Next season Lon Kruger has everyone back from this team minus Christian Doolittle. Kruger needs to find a grad transfer who can shoot the trey to go along with Reaves and Brady Manek. The rest of the OU squad has some relatively solid role players. But Kruger needs to go find another consistent scorer.

I like Kruger. During his tenure the Sooners for the most part have made the tournament field, made a Final Four, and produce two National Player of the Year winners in Buddy Hield and Trae Young.

For next season what Lon Kruger needs is another gunner to go alongside Austin Reaves and OU could possibly have a team which could make some noise beyond the second round of March Madness.

This is what happens to you when you no have no real message and no history of getting much done in the United States Senate except for being the moral guardrail for the far left.

The most striking comment of the last debate was when Amy Klobuchar correctly stated that the Delusion Twins…Bernie and Elizabeth both ranked in the bottom third of the U.S. Senate as far as getting anything done of any consequence.

I laughed when Elizabeth Warren finished third in her own home state of Massachusetts. Let’s put this in political perspective.

In 2016–even Ted Cruz won his home state of Texas as Donald Trump made his way to the GOP nomination. John Kasich easily won his home state of Ohio the same year. But Elizabeth Warren ran third in Massachusetts and she wasn’t even competitive.

So I ask myself why did MSNBC give her so much heroine play after she took down Michael Bloomberg for some things he said thirty years ago?

Why take down someone who actually has a record of getting tough things done and helping in worthy causes regardless of party affiliations? Things like climate change, gun control, job creation, and education.

So here’s what I’m saying to Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders as Elizabeth Warren is making like her endorsement is a real game changer….don’t seek her endorsement. She’s a monumental pain in the ass who ranks in the bottom third of the Senate and wasn’t even competitive in her home state.

But Bernie Sanders will wait for her endorsement this week as the pivotal primary in Michigan takes place. My guess is she’ll stall on the Bernie endorsement because she probably figures Joe Biden will pick either Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris, or maybe even Elizabeth Warren to be his running mate.

For pure competence — it should be Klobuchar, but she’s not black and she’s not a progressive.

Again–isn’t it odd not one of these women ever mentioned Hunter Biden or his job at Burisma as the primary process heated up for the Dems.

Rest assured Donald Trump and every GOP surrogate will mention both every single day once it becomes apparent Joe Biden is the nominee.

It was like a college football Saturday this past season.

In the first game on Fox Southwest we saw the feel good Jalen Hurts Sooners bury the miserable Kansas Jayhawks in Madison Square Garden by a 126-103 count. It’s almost uncanny how much these Thunder with Chris Paul resemble the Sooners with grad transfer Jalen Hurts.

But as we all know that story at some point turns ugly when the feel good story has to play a big boy monster in wait from the SEC with a mobile quarterback who can pass.

Enter the ESPN Game of the Night with Mikey Breen, Jeff van Gundy, and Mark Jackson on the call as real basketball junkies salivated to witness LeBron duel Giannis for the lead in the regular season MVP race.

It was like Joe Burrow versus Tua. Neither disappointed the viewers as the Bucks hung around until finally succumbing in the fourth quarter and losing by a score of 113-103.

It was great stuff. But we know for sure Clemson and Ohio State fans already know how this story ends. But what I don’t know right now is whether quiet stealth assassin Kawhi Leonard or LeBron is Joe Burrow this NBA season.

Does LeBron still have enough in him to carry the Lakers to four wins on a Texas-OU national stage setting to get his Lakers past the Clippers?

I don’t know. But I can’t wait to see.

On the Thunder-Knicks front—the game was a disgrace from a standpoint of how bad the Knicks are and how little they give their fans for the price of a ticket. Truly—at some point Adam Silver needs to step in and orchestrate some sort of deal with Chris Paul as player coach going to the Knicks at the conclusion of this season.

If I’m Sam Presti this is what I want….I want RJ Barrett, I want a first round draft pick down the road, and I want Julius Randle if he still has a year left on his contract beyond this season.

This is where Sam Presti gets his rebuild with another talented piece in Barrett to go alongside Shai G. Alexander and another Canadian at that to go along with Alexander and Dort. I wonder if any of these guys can skate?

In watching that dumpster fire of a Knicks team last night–Barrett’s potential is still obvious if someone gets him out of there and puts him in a winning culture.

To conclude–remember early on in this season when the narrative in New York was they were going to build around this young core. How’d that go?

Go make your deal, Sam Presti….but remember to sell high.

The reality is Milwaukee, the Clippers, and the Lakers are in their own exclusive universe right now with the other twenty-seven NBA teams looking from the outside in.

In the past week the Clippers have rolled Denver, Oklahoma City, and Houston without even breaking a sweat.

For the first time this season the Clippers are healthy and for good measure added Marcus Morris and Reggie Jackson at the deadline. The Clips are the deepest most well rounded team in the league and most capable from a defensive standpoint of defending either LeBron or Giannis.

Oklahoma City wants no part whatsoever of either LA team in the playoffs. Consider this when the LA teams most likely square off in the Western Conference Finals they will both be playing on their home court in the Staples Center. Jack Nicholson vs. Billy Crystal in the conference finals.

Putting aside my loyalty for the Thunder…as an NBA fan I can’t wait to see the Clippers vs. Lakers series at Staples. And right now I’d take the Clippers.

POWER POLL

1 LA Clippers

2 LA Lakers

3 Milwaukee Bucks

4 Boston Celtics

5 Toronto Raptors

6 Denver Nuggets

7 Houston Rockets

8 Miami Heat

9 Oklahoma City Thunder

10 Dallas Mavericks

11 Philadelphia 76’ers

12 Utah Jazz

For the tenth time in the last eleven road games the Oklahoma City Thunder won an NBA game. It wasn’t easy though for the Thunder in hanging on against a decimated Detroit Piston team which is one of the worst in the Eastern Conference.

The Thunder almost squandered a fifteen point second half lead before it took a clutch three from Danilo Gallinari to seal the win with around ten seconds left.

With the win Oklahoma City improves to 38-24 and remain as the No. 6 seed in the West. The realistic goal for the Thunder is to avoid the Lakers and Clippers in the first round.

Four Thunder players scored in double figures with Shai G. Alexander leading the way with a 27 point night. Next in line was Dennis Schroder with 23 points. Both Gallinari and Chris Paul tallied in double figures as well 19 and 16 points.

Steven Adams, Lu Dort, Nerlens Noel, and Abdel Nader were okay, but nothing special.

For some reason Billy Donovan keeps playing this season’s version of Alex Abrines in Terrance Ferguson and it is painful to watch. In 20 minutes of playing time–Ferguson scored two points, grabbed one rebound and was a -4.

It’s tough to watch because it’s apparent the kid’s confidence he can play well consistently at this level isn’t there. Hopefully, when rookie Darius Bazely returns from the injured reserve list Billy Donovan will limit Ferguson’s role to minor minutes.

With twenty games left in the regular season the Thunder need to go 12-8 to reach the 50 win plateau. When you figure in April the Thunder have a road back to back versus the Lakers and Clippers… in essence the Thunder would need to go 12-6 in the other eighteen games to get to fifty wins. Maybe–but not much room for error.

Next up…the NY Knicks on the road where the Thunder should win their eleventh road game out of the last twelve.

It was a tough night to watch the Thunder as for the second game in a row they faced an NBA top three team in the LA Clippers at home on Super Tuesday.

You can’t sugarcoat it…with the Clippers completely healthy they appear to be in an elite select league with Milwaukee and the Lakers. The reality with this Thunder team is that in a playoff series they won’t be able to seriously threaten any of these three teams. But I think from Denver, Houston, and Utah down the Thunder should be competitive in a post season series.

On the political front it was a pleasant surprise as Joe Biden won nine of the thirteen states on Super Tuesday. Biden not only kept pace with Crazy Bernie Sanders, but he actually took the delegate lead.

One would think or hope both Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren will drop out of the race sometime this week and pledge their support to Joe Biden.

I’m sure at some point Bloomberg will do this, but not quite as sure on Elizabeth Warren as she seems to envision herself as the moral guardrail of America. Hopefully, the fact Joe Biden has had a few Al Franken-esque experiences with women over the years doesn’t put him in a bad position with Elizabeth Warren. Isn’t it odd…she didn’t mention one of Biden’s moments in this regard in one single debate. Not one.

But the Dems need to move on at this point since they’ve buried Mike Bloomberg and see if they can overcome the Hunter Biden-Burisma onslaught which will be coming in relentless torrents on Donald Trump’s twitter feed and at his rallies.

I could actually vote for Joe Biden—so I’ll keep my fingers crossed and hope Elizabeth Warren doesn’t stay in the race and try to take him down before she leaves the race.

After almost twenty years of hosting the almost iconic ‘Hardball’… Chris Matthews called it quits on MBNBC tonight.

Some speculate he was forced to resign for a comment he made in comparing ‘the Bernie Sanders supporters in Nevada to the Nazis invading France in WWII.’

I can’t believe we’ve become this sensitive given our sitting president openly talks about grabbing pussy and other worldly things.

But no one more than me knows this affliction after being given a lifetime ban at the prurient Daily Thunder. The politically correct boundaries are uber thin in this new American order of acceptable decorum.

Like Chris Matthews, I thought my comment to what I thought was a platonic female friend about giving one of the weaker Daily Thunder content writers a face wash with a certain part of her body might motivate him to write in a stronger, more authoritarian voice.

But like Chris Matthews with Hardball, and as with me when I literally owned Royce Young’s blog and attained iconic status… I was shown the door as well for an errant comment.

Chris Mathhews… I feel your pain. Take care, buddy.