It’s been a slow start for Giddey, when a lot of us thought he was about to make a leap. I wasn’t too worried about it. Being a 4th option was gonna be an issue, but if he couldn’t make it work, I thought some other team will be willing to give up a lot of value to let him be the point guard.

And that’s not hate on his game, but cmon at this point he’s not in the top four of who I’d like to have with the ball in crunch time.

Now for the conspiracy. Nope it’s not about the league conspiring against the Thunder to slow down their inevitable domination of the league.

It’s this: is it possible that Giddey knew that some embarrassing (at best) shit was about to drop over the last month?

So many of these things start with the person saying pay me x$million and this story will never come out. Giddey might have consulted with his people and they said call the bluff. In fairness, an extortion attempt doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, but he might have said bring it because nothing actually happened.

I’m not here to speculate on this crazy situation, but to speculate on whether this might be the reason giddey’s start has been so lackluster. Guilty or innocent, it would be hard to focus at work if you thought some life changing accusations might be coming your way.