I only had the Thunder winning 24.5 games so it’s not like Chet was going to be the end all. He was definitely going to sell some tickets though. The Zags couldn’t even beat Arkansas when it mattered. I worry about OKC Jim though. This was going to be his One Shining Moment.
I don’t even like the Thunder anymore so it’s not like this has any profound effect on my life. But I have to keep the blog to make sure the truth doesn’t get buried by people on Presti’s payroll.
At this point…I’m convinced the Little Nick Gallos and Daily Thunder owners would write anything to save face when this thing hits its final landing spot in Episode 12.
Me?
I’m good. My advice for you is to drink heavily till next April and keep up with the truth on my blog from time to time if you can handle the truth. If you can’t handle the truth …then don’t.
I love the Kim Wexler character. Saul never deserved her. No way. No how.
This scene for me is every bit as good as when Kim took on Lalo Salamaca and the drug cartels.
Holy shit….why would Oklahoma City even take this chance with the most critical draft pick in the history of the Thunder?
I just don’t grasp it in any universe with Jabari Smith right there to be plucked.. Out for the season and didn’t even get his emaciated not ready for the NBA body to training camp.
Why not play this draftt as the hedge play draft and make sure your fanbase gets a real NBA player with the 2nd pick in the draft? Why not make sure SGA and his agent both see soemthing tangible in the Thunder’s future minus becoming the next version of the Sacramento Kings?
Why not make up for the PooPoo Poku debaucle?
Why not give your franchise the apppearance of some legitimate pro sports entity and couple it with a reason for average working folks to pay NBA money for tickets to see the Thunder play games in Oklahoma City instead of Las Vegas or Seattle?
Yikes. Double yikes. And triple John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath yikes.
This injury is not a shock unless you’re an NBA novice who only reads the Sam Presti medicated Oklahoma City media as a source for your NBA news.
Bill Walton. Sam Bowie, Yao Ming… Gregg Oden… any of those names ring a bell?
If you’re really serious about the team staying in Oklahoma City beyond the new three year extension and Pay.Com Arena ….then why not show some reciprocal legal good faith by giving these Oklahoma people something viable to see the next three years and prove your legal good faith intentions?
I’m pretty certain the the average Thunder ticket buyer has never read Breaks of the Game by Davis Halbertsam. Do yourself a favor then and find a copy on Amazon and start teaching yourself something about the NBA breaks of the game because you’re for sure not going to get much objective hard hoops history from anyone covering the Thunder who reside in Oklahoma because of the gentle nature of press relations Sam Presti allows.
Start learning the history of the league so you ‘ll now when your team team just suffered a a very serious blow to their future.
Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam. As in the Thunder just got a historically bad break of the game this week with Chet Holmgren’s off season injury.
I ‘think’ people in Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Lousiana can still read this book and not fear having your book confiscated.
Breaks of thr Game by David Halberstam. See if you can find it for cheap on Amazon. As I write it’s still legal to read a book in Oklahoma before Markwayne Mullin become a United States Senator. Better read it in the next two months just to play it safe though.
Make America Great Again….start burning all your books.
Operation Bongo reared its ugly Sam Bowie head in late August as it was reported on Wednesday that Chet ‘The Stickman’ Holgren might be done for his rookie season before the tanking Thunder even made it to training camp to train to lose sixty games this NBA regular season.
If the Thunder do indeed lose sixty-two games this NBA season it will put Clay Bennett’s ball club a combined 62-184 the past three seasons combined.
This is so Oklahoma. I feel even bad mentioning it on my blog because by nature I’m not a cruel human being.
This in my mind drops the Thunder from the 24.5 Vegas number I had them picked to win this season to somewhere around 20.5 games won by the frail feeble Thunder.
I’m not at all bent out of shape by this at all, except that I feel sorry for The Stickman and truly hope he’s not the next Sam Bowie or Greg Oden on the NBA horizon of physically frail big men doomed by bad feet.
I could honestly care less at this point because I’ll be watching Golden State, Boston, Milwaukee, and Denver.
I wish these Presti Warriors of Sustainability the best because I want to continue to be able to see real NBA teams which are run by real NBA people come to Oklahoma and allow us to to see some of the best athletes in the world in person.
I feel sick for the suckers who already paid tickt price for Thunder season tickets, but you know what Trump says and this is a Trump redneck city…”Never give suckers an even break and kick them when they’re down.”
Que sera,eh.
I hope this doesn’t cause OKC Jim over there on the Pulitizer Prize Award winning Daily Thunder message board to become despaired, but my guess is he’ll extract some sort of nonsensical, totally absurd Silver Lining out of The Stickman missing his entire rookie season.
This is a blessing for me in that in the past two weeks I’ve binge watched both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. I tell you what …that dude Vince Manning who wrote both of those screenplays flat out can write his ass off. That dude can write.
Everything in life happens for a reason. Hope you heal and get better, Stickman.
Respectfully, Don Hector Salamaca.
The scene with Kim Wexler standing up to Lalo Salamaca is iconic. Simply iconic. I had my .38 caliber Glock automatic revolver out on the coffee table by this point. What a great movie scene!!!
I don’t think you had to be the Amazing Carnac to see this result coming in the tiny populace state of rogue red Trump, Wyoming. The Cowboy State has an overall state population of around 700,000 people and is in esssene a carbon coby of redneck Trump, Oklahoma which has a population in excess of four million people.
What we found out last night in Wyoming is the Reublican Party is no longer a major political party, just a remnant of Lincoln, TR, Eisenhower, Reagan, or even Richard Nixon. Nixon compared to Pussy Grabber is Mr. Rogers or Lassie.
Liz Cheney was the last reasonable pragmatic Republican standing in the House of Representatives and she was slaughtered by just under forty percenatge points versus the Usual Suspect Trump sychophant dregded up by the Trump Electoral Mafia.
On one hand, it was sad to see her go down like this to a person of Donald Trump’s utter disrepute. Yet, on the other hand it was somewhat inspirational to see any Repbulican stand up in public for the Rule of Law, our three branches of governernment, the FBI, The U.S. Supreme Court, and the our legal system which has made America rare in the world.
Evidently…mainstream Republicans don’t any longer believe in any of these institutions.
This is where we are…on the cusp of Civil War circa 2022.
I don’t think the previous sentence is hyperbole.
What Trump has done is unify a collective group of idiots, dimwits, Birthers, Tea Party knuckleheads, Alex Jones and Steve Bannon zzombies, the Nixon-Wallace Silent Majority types, the KKK’ers, the Neo-Nazis, the Proud Boy domestic terrorist types and turned them into a substantial voting block.
Trump’s Beautiful People….he loves them, they love him, they’re special….now go home for now and live under a rock. Save your energy for Fort Sumter.
Does Liz Cheny have a path to the preesidency? Not just no, but FUCK no. She has the same chance as Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, Sissy Boy LIndsey Graham, Ron DeSantis, Little Marco Rubio, Worthless Ted Cruz, or the annoying Rand Paul.
None of these people have a chance of beating Donald Trump.
Only one person has a reasonable chance of defeating Donald Trump and that person would be Merritt Garland.
Liz Cheney… you did the right thing and that will be your honorable historical legacy.
The fifty GOP senators will not have such honorable legacies.
I refuse to write very much about a G League team in Oklahoma pretending to be an NBA team.Two seasons of tanking in a row should be some sort of NBA by-law, but hre we are entering the third season of tanking fo the Thunder.
If you count the Sonics last two seasons in Seattle before the move to rogue red Oklahoma this franchise will have tanked six out of their last seventeen seasons in two polar opposite culture and appearance.
That’s 35.2% of possible regular season games played where the Sonics/Thunder have pre-ordained intentional losing as the their mode of sustainable operation.
If Oklahoma City is viewed as this big of a redneck shithole oil town by NBA players who won’t ever come here as free agents or trade possibilities then the team should be moved to another city.
At some point you have to give your fanbase an entertainment product on the floor which is watchable.
It’s like watching the never ending depiction of Oklahom by John Steinbeck in Grapes of Wrath. It’s sad to witness.
At some point you have to go out and play legitimate games where the loss isn’t pre-determined by Sam Presti.
I’m not a season ticket holder, but I do usually buy enough games through a ticket broker to equal a mini-package of sorts.
When you lose a guy like me who’s been a passionate NBA fan through the mid-sixties it says something. To me…it says you don’t care about having smart, passionate NBA fans in your fanbase.
Colin Cowherd has it completely right on this video. The Golden State Warriors are the team every basketball coach at every level wants his/her team to play lke.
Do any of you Thunder fans honestly think Steph, Klay, Draymond, Andrew, and Kevon Looney would lose games intentionally?
The Warriors lost Otto Prter and Gary Payton this offseason. No sweat. THeir GM Bob Myers knows what he;s doing and has James Wisman, Johnny Kuminga, and Moses Moody to fill those minutes. If anything….the Warriors should be better this season.
And that’s precisely why since Game 6 in 2016 the Warriors have become an iconic dynasty and the Thunder became the fodder for a book by Sam Anderson from the NY Times Magazine titled Boom Town.
From the Dave Letterman Late Night regional studio in Deer Creek, Oklahoma
TOP TEN POTUS 45 MAR-A-LARGO SEARCH WARRANT DISCOVERIES
10 Most recent suggestive photos sent from Clarence and Ginny Thomas on exclusive POTUS 45 adult GOP site
9 Copy of expunged record of sons’ Donald Jr. and Eric’s ACT scores.
8 Submissive/passive photo exchange with Senaror Lindsey Graham with POTUS 45 on private White House on the GOP adult porno account.
7 FLOTUS 45’s photos of POTUS 45 with Marjorie Taylor-Green at a Proud Boy Xmas mixer following insurrection coup
6 Most current revision by POTUS 45 in relation to pre-nup agreement with FLOTUS 45
5 Recent Secret Service email acknowledging erasure of all January 5th and 6th texts from special Trump Agents
4 Special Cayman account info POTUS 45 has used to pay various bimbos escorts and Stormy Daniels wannabees
3 Names, addresses and Social Securtity numbers of every Black American who voted for POTUS 45 in 2016
2 Letter from Putin assuring POTUS 45 he would be proud to serve as Trump’s vice-president for a second term
And the No. 1 file is……drum roll please… Special private Sean Hannity phone numbers in the event anything remotely presidential needs to cleaned up by someone resembling an adult.
Despite what Joe Mixon thinks or what Jeff Ebby left behind him at Baylor…there will be no redemption or forgiveness for Cale Gundy at OU.
As in none.
It doesn’t matter if black people call each other this name or write it in song lyrics to the point of inducing vomit.
White people cannot use the word nigger in front of a black person circa 2020 in America.
Cale Gundy said the word…maybe even three times.
In pragmatic retrospect…first year head coach Brent Venables had no choice. He made the right decision even as tough as it is for Cale Gundy’s career at the relatively young age of fifty.
With the way we in America forget the 48 hour news cycle in America…two weeks from now when the college football season begins Cale Gundy will be a foonote in University of Oklahoma football.
In this country… half of the people think it’s okay to hang a sitting vice-president–so I’m guessing somewhere out there in this football crazed country…Cale Gundy will find a landing spot in a year or so.
Do I think Cale Gundy is a malicious racist?
No way.
Racism in America is generationally systemic. Some fathers use the word and some sons listen to the context in which the word is used and copy their fathers.
My father thankfully didn’t use the word around me or my brother. We’ve never used the word. Funny how that works.
I’m guessing both Cale and Mike Gundy heard the word growing up. That’s just a gut guess on my part. I’m guessig they both heard the word used by a male relative in an ignorant manner and out of context. Nobody sat them down and corrected them until two years ago when Mike Gundy was almost fired at O State as well.
It really is sad when you sit down and think about it.
It’s sad to think half of America thinks this word is repugnant, while the other half thinks it’s okay.
I guess the moral of the story for Cale Gundy is he shouldn’t ever use the word again even if he’s residing in a state which Trump will probably carry by a 72% plurality in 2024 if he isn’t in federal prison on election day.
I’d circle Southern Miss as a possible landing spot for Cale Gundy.
I’m going to come back to this later. I have no idea why the DOJ did this, Namely because they already have enough econdemning evidence from depostions and filmed testimony to put this piece of dog shit grifter in federal prison for the rest of his life.
It’s become apparent to me even if they find a smoking gun in the execution of this search warrant you have arond fifty to sixty million Americans who will deny any wrongdoing by Donald Trump no matter how overwhelming the evidence.
I don’t understand these people, nor will I ever understand these people. Some of these are closet racists who have beenn enabled by Donald Trump. Some of them are just our dumbest variations of uneducated white trash who aren’t even smart enough to vote in their own economic self-interest. Or some of them are just the most hypocritical faux Cheistian to ever walk the face of the earth.
I don’t know. I don’t claim to know.
But I do know this… the faux Christions need to spend more time reading the New Testament than the Effective Marginal Tax Tables. That’s how deep theri Christianity actually runs…that and tort reform limitations. That’s the working Bible for these phonies.
So I have no idea what the DOJ thinks was in hiding at the palace of Trump known as Mar-A-Largo.
This guy makes Nixon look like Mr. Rodgers. No hyperbole intended.
I mean…I’m about the furthest thing from liberal, woke, or lit… but this is pathetic. Good God…when yu don’t even follow the Rule of Law you have nothing as a democracy. As in nothing
Yikes. So much for Brent Venables’ honeymoon period as OU’s new head football coach.
Cale Gundy after thirty-two years at OU as either a player, graduate assistant, or football coach was fired for using the noun ‘nigger,.
There… I said it. All these white guys in the uber soft Oklahoma sports media can’t say the word apparently. So I just said it for them.
Nigger…that’s the noun. A reprehensible noun, but a noun all the same.
Both brother Mike Gundy and Cale back in their days as members of the MIdwwest City bombers could have gotten away with wearing a Trump shirt and a saying ‘nigger’ three times in a position meeting of probably around twelve humans at OU.
But let me clue in the Gundy Brothers….this isn’t Midwest City forty years ago and Ray Gundy isn’t calling the shots at state funded universities like OU an O State.
Politically correct administarors are calling the shots. We live in an era of acute political corretness…almost to the point of nausea.
What a sad story this is on every level.
I think Cale Gundy should serve a one year suspension like Joe Mixon. He should be given the benefit of the doubt much like Jeff Lebby was given a reprieve for his years at Baylor and like Joe Mixon was given when he waylaid that drunk piece of white trash on hss seventeenth birthday inside a Norman bar.
Cale Gundy made a mistake. A human error in judgement. It should not be a life altering sentence. I’ve yet to read one thing from any past black OU player who doesn’t love Cale Gundy.
I’m a redmption guy all the way through. My father was a criminal defense attorney and my mom was a social worker. Redemption was a huge part of my upbringing. It’s in my DNA.
Joe C and Joe Harroz…do me a favor, guys. Give Cale Gundy the same mulligan you gave both Joe Mixon and Jeff Lebby.
That’s how this would be handled in Judge Jackson’s court.
OU gets started with fall practice on Friday and it’s all turned out prettty square for the Sooners.
I wish LR the best. I think if he’s stayed he would be on the hot seat right now because of OU’s incredible under acheivement last season.
I repeat when you can’t score a point in a full half of football versus the Kansas Jayhawks something is seriously amiss.
I still find all this amusing to a crtain point that a coach from, Bumblefuck, Texas now finds himself as the head guy in La La Land. But I wish the best for him.
OU is set at the QB position this season with transfer Dillion Gabriel and next season when five star recruit Jackson Arnold from Denton, Texas comes on board to join the Sooners.
It all worked out beautifully for the Sooners who are in the midst of back to back recruiting classes under Coach V which are both stocked with defensive players who who can run and tackle in space like in the old days when OU actually played defense.
All my fellow OU fans need to let go of the angst. It turned out beautifully. Joe C didn’t have to play the villain by firing Lincoln before the move to the SEC. Everybody should be happy.