ThunderBoss

🚨IT HAS TO END, FOR OKLAHOMA

Clay Bennett and Sam Presti need to request a meeting with Adam Silver. Thunder players are suffering serious injuries due to the team’s officiating, for unjustified reasons we all know.

Consequently, Clay must pay hundreds of millions for unavailable players with long-term implications. Players’ careers, future NBA earnings, and endorsement opportunities are at stake. This is a business, basketball, and moral issue.

There is no indication this is temporary; it has continued from most of last year through the playoffs until now. If unchecked, it will likely last through this version of the Thunder.

When something this critical is bad for business, the city, the players, and morally wrong, it cannot continue as usual.

We must stand up as an organization and city against injustice designed to keep June parades and community revenue out of Oklahoma City and funnel them into other, less deserving cities. The state of Oklahoma has made substantial public investments downtown into a new arena and otherwise, based in part on good faith assumptions about the NBA and how it was going to conduct business.

Letting this stand is not the Thunder way nor the Oklahoma standard, nor should the NBA pick, manipulate, or eliminate champions. It cannot stand.

It’s time to formally call this out and address it at the highest level before even more damage is done. Too much is at stake.

#ThunderUp #okcthunder @davidfholt @NBA

The @NBA complained and overhauled rules after teams manipulated games to lose for better draft picks. It shouldn’t do the same by suppressing obvious correct calls for certain teams to gain more favorable social media coverage, its version of a more favorable draft pick. They are both outcome manipulations at the expense of game integrity. If it’s bad for the game when the Jazz do it, it’s bad when the NBA itself does it. Fans don’t want to watch manipulated games.

@NBAOfficial @okcthunder
#ThunderUp #thunder #NBA

Do the Portland Trail Blazers even have a rival? The Jazz, maybe?

#ThunderUp

The phantom offensive foul on McCain, actually a foul on Dame that would have given him three free throws, decided the game. The NBA has horrible officiating.

Shai was atrocious in that first half, on both ends.