Welcome to Down to Dunk. I'm your host Andrew Schlecht. We're part of the Athletic podcast network with me as always. I winces. It's my good friend Alex.

I just put a saltine in my mouth. Oh wow. He's not in the pod. It's so dry. Oh no.

Should have given you more time now. There's no time. I need to get no time. I need to get real breakfast, dude. I've just been eating sleeves of saltines every morning. Is that for real? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. We got to get you some magic spoon or something. Believe in the mailbox. I'm going to get you some magic spoon. Help us out magic spoon. Okay. Ow. The season's over. The Thunder are tied for for fourth in the lottery odds. Yeah.

And now it's all up to some ping pong balls and just straight up luck for the Oklahoma City Thunder. It's going to be a blast. It's going to be fun. It's going to be it's going to be nerve wracking. But we're in such a better position than other teams because we have that Houston pick as well.

And you just got to keep falling back on that. I mean, yes, it could happen. We could get totally screwed. End up with the seventh or eighth or I think we can even fall to ninth now, pick. Yeah.

It's like a point eight percent chance that we could fall to nine. I think. Yeah.

But you know what? I'm looking at the positive. 75% chance of getting at least one top five pick. Can't do too much better than that. That's all we really wanted this entire time.

Let's see what happens. You know, I'm not feeling bad. I'm over that Clippers game done thinking about it. Never want to talk about it again. You know what's so cool?

Is if fortune comes to the Oklahoma City Thunder and let's say we get one top five pick or two top five picks. We'll never talk about that Clippers game ever again.

It'll just be out of our minds forever and ever. It'll become like a trivia question on Deborah buckets 10 years from now. Now that said it will talk about it forever. Yes, that's exactly what I was getting to.

So that game could or could not be a big part of our future. We'll see. I hope I don't I hope I never have to think about it again. Oh, I hope.

I've been loving though that a lot of people have been tweeting about how blatant it was. It's not just us. You are bringing it up. There was a nice super cut me like a two minute super cut of just how terrible the Clippers were.

It was really egregious. It was absolutely egregious. Did you catch any of the exit interviews, anything that stood out to you. I didn't really discuss with McKelle on Monday. So didn't know if there's anything that you saw or heard.

I mean, I think she saying that he still wasn't 100% that was probably the most interesting thing because you know, we're getting closer and closer to Olympics and who knows if the Olympics are going to happen anymore.

But I kind of always just assumed like, oh, there's no chance that she wouldn't play in the Olympics. But but it seems like it's still something he's dealing with. So who knows.

Because I don't think he'll he'll go unless he's 100% so that that was probably the most interesting thing.

Other than that, you know, I mean, the emotional stuff from like Moscow was was pretty good.

That was really cool of him to open up like that. And obviously, like, I don't know if there was a guy who didn't want to stay in Oklahoma City. I mean, they were all very they all had a lot of high praise for the organization and the city and just their teammates.

You know, for a team that was truly awful down the stretch, it would be completely understandable if some of those guys were just burned out by this point.

And like, just didn't want to give the energy to talk about what a fun year it was, you know.

But like to a man, they all seem like pretty happy with their situation, which I think overall is looks makes the organization look good.

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