Billy Donovan and the Thunder Part Ways
Down to Dunk OKC Thunder Podcast
The Athletic
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss Billy Donovan and the Thunder parting ways, what is next for the Thunder, who could be the next head coach, and what the next roster moves could be.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Down to Dunk. I'm your host, Andrew Schlect. We're part of the Athletic Podcast Network |
| 0:09.3 | with me tonight. It's my good friend, Alex Spears. Alex, what's up? |
| 0:14.3 | What's up? Part two, but maybe part one, depending on how you order it. |
| 0:19.7 | Yeah, this is definitely part two in a two-part series. |
| 0:25.5 | So we recorded earlier today talking speculatively about Billy Donovan. |
| 0:31.1 | We were kind of on the right track there to speculate on whether he'd come back |
| 0:35.0 | because the Thunder and Billy Donovan have mutually |
| 0:38.2 | agreed to part ways. And if you read the tea leaves, I think it just means that Billy Donovan |
| 0:45.0 | didn't want to come back. He didn't want any part of a rebuild. He didn't want any part of an |
| 0:49.3 | uncertain future with the roster. And he's gone. And also, I think also a part of this is there are so many coaching vacancies right now in the NBA and which we quickly learned after this announcement was made as like in short order it was like oh the sixers might be interested oh the bowls might be interested and I have to assume that Pacers would be interested. Oh, the Bulls might be interested. And I have to assume |
| 1:12.6 | that Pacers would be interested. Why wouldn't they be interested? Yeah. Yeah. He's a good coach. |
| 1:17.5 | He's a good coach. Yeah. I think the Pacers, I think a lot of those teams will be interested. |
| 1:22.3 | My friend, the underscore big underscore kid, which is my friend Jeremy Lamb |
| 1:27.7 | he said Billy let us know his intentions when he played Adams a million minutes in game |
| 1:34.0 | seven oh he thinks he threw the series through the series he was done wow to get back at |
| 1:40.1 | sam he knew Sam was only going to give him one beer at his exit interview. |
| 1:46.0 | This was a hilarious part of, this is so funny, of the press conference tonight. He said, when he knew where the conversation was going, he said he brought a cooler. And he goes, and if anybody knows billy you know i put two diet |
| 2:02.6 | coax in there and then i put two beers in there just like a freaking psycho like who takes a |
| 2:09.5 | cooler with two beers somewhere wait so does billy not drink is Is that Billy just doesn't know. |
| 2:18.3 | I don't know, but he did drink the beer. |
| 2:21.0 | Oh, he did. |
| 2:21.7 | Yeah, he did drink a beer that night. |
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