Everyday, there are plenty of articles about your favorite team on the internet. Whether they be pay sites like The Athletic, “free sites” like ESPN, local news sites like The Oklahoman, or blog sites like Daily Thunder, there is a plethora of information out there just waiting to be consumed. It can be a hassle to keep up with all this information at times. No one has time in the morning to visit website upon website or to scroll throughout your Twitter timeline looking for articles about your favorite team.
That’s where we come into play. OKC Clicktown (a play off of Bricktown….I know, punny) will help aggregate Oklahoma City Thunder links for your use every weekday morning. No longer do you have to surf the web for Thunder content. You just stop by here, say “Hi” to the door greeter, grab your cup of coffee (or beer for our Aussie and Kiwi brethren) and enjoy yourself. Thunder Up!
Erik Horne (The Oklahoman) profiles Thunder assistant coach Dave Bliss, who wants you to know he is more than his name: “I had some opportunities to get pretty good jobs coming out of there,” Bliss said. “I got to the end and realized I don’t want to be away from the game.” Bliss became a volunteer assistant at Georgia for the 2008-09 season, then, with Felton’s help, latched on as a graduate assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University the next season.
Maddie Lee (The Oklahoman) profiles Thunder assistant coach David Akinyooye: “When Akinyooye took a job with the Blue, a year after his departure overseas, head coach Mark Daigneault made it clear that Akinyooye wouldn’t be confined to the video room or the development team. He would be coaching. Akinyooye packed up the adaptability he learned in Lyon, the refusal to cut corners he absorbed in the Spurs organization, and tactics to get a group of individuals to put egos aside, which he gleaned from Cosgrove, and brought those skills to Oklahoma City.”
Apparently it’s assistant coach week at the Oklahoman. Here’s another Horne article about new Thunder assistant coach Mike Wilks: “Wilks played seven seasons and 233 games in the NBA, averaging 2.5 points, one rebound and 1.2 assists per game. His final season was a four-game run with the Thunder in 2009-10. But the NBA was always what the Milwaukee native considered icing on the cake. Long before he improbably made the league as a 5-foot-10 guard out of Rice University, Wilks was setting himself up with as many ways to navigate the dangers of his home city as possible. Basketball helped motivate him academically with a major assist from his mother, Kathy Crayton.”
Noah Schulte (Thunderous Intentions) looks at the potential backcourt pairing of Chris Paul and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: “In Chris Paul, the Thunder have one of the greatest point guards of all-time, at an age where he’s neither good enough to build a contender around nor bad enough to become a full-blown ring-chaser. And in Gilgeous-Alexander, the Thunder have a young guard that is already a high-level role player with the potential to be a fringe All-Star in the future. The fit on the basketball court might be even stranger. We more-or-less know what we’re getting with Paul at this point – an irritable basketball genius who at 34 can still run a good NBA offense – but with SGA, it’s not really clear how it will work.”
Nekias Duncan (Bleacher Report) wants you to know that Chris Paul isn’t washed up: ” Even in a down year, Paul found himself in a select group. He was one of five players to average at least 15 points and eight assists (8.2, third in the NBA), joining LeBron James, Westbrook, Trae Young and John Wall. Paul was the most efficient three-point shooter on the list (35.8 percent) and the only one to average 2.0 steals. He didn’t track guards at an All-Defensive-team level but was still a plus-defender overall.”
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander announcing he is skipping the Worlds in favor of preparing for the upcoming season:
John Askounis (EuroHoops) on Danilo Gallinari having to have an emergency appendectomy: “Danilo Gallinari will sit out for a few days after going through appendectomy on Saturday, the Italian Basketball Federation, FIP, informed via press release. The successful operation took place at Verona amid the Italian National Team’s preparations for the 2019 FIBA World Cup.”