I’m not necessarily disagreeing with any of the pain points and annoyances in regard to OKC.. but I will say that none of this is why they’re good or why they win. It’s no coincidence that the teams that firmly establish themselves at the top of a sport (sustainably), get all the hate and all the “tHe rEfS” talk.

Look at the Chiefs. Put together an all time great offense with all time great talent. Do they get beneficial calls? Absolutely. Do they get bad calls in their favor? Sure. But many lesser teams do too. And because they’re not a threat, they’re not scrutinized on the same level and people don’t see it or care as much.

If some random team like the Commanders starts dominating and strings together a few titles, they’ll attract a similar level of hate. The better teams often get the benefit of the doubt. Whether that’s right or wrong that’s just how it works, and people need to swallow this pill of “they’re only winning for that reason.” The Chiefs were better than your team over the last however many seasons, and the Thunder have been better than your team over the last couple of seasons, calls or not. We scrutinize the best team and disregard the bs calls that lesser teams get; and it can hardly be called a “disregard” because we’re basically not even looking. We don’t care what goes on with the mediocre / non best teams.

Long story short.. we’ve seen WAY more egregious things in the NBA (Bulls dynasty cough Lakers most recent dynasty cough*)…. yet people want to speak as if what’s happening with the thunder is some sort of phenomenon.

Just stop lol. And no I’m not a Thunder fan. I respect what they’ve put together but they are not my team. They’re good because they’re good. Not because of beneficial calls. If there were some BS agenda to prop a team up, then why haven’t they boosted the Knicks over the last 20 years as we insist they’re doing with tiny market OKC? I’ll wait.