The owners of the Oklahoma City Thunder don't mind lying about their documented intentions to move the team from Seattle to OKC, or contributing huge gobs of money in to programs designed to help deny the right for two consenting adults to marry after falling in love, but if you're a Thunder employee and you dare post a rap video online chronicling your team's best players while sporting Thunder gear? Well, you better brush up on your resume, buddy, because you're going to be out on your (Thunder) butt.

Here's the completely inoffensive video, as found by Welcome to Loud City and via'd our way by Trey at The Basketball Jones:

Yeah, not great. Kind of annoying, childishly gross at times. And I'm sure the contract of the since-fired Thunder employee states that he's not allowed to use Thunder apparel for promotional clips that they don't approve of, but to axe a member of the team's cheering squad for … cheering for the team? Or is it because team co-owner Aubrey McClendon is afraid of butts?

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Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant don't appear to care about your stats (Getty Images)

Don't feed the troll. Don't feed the troll. Don't feed the … ah, forget it. We can't let this one go. Skip Bayless is commenting on games he hasn't watched again, getting it wrong as usual, and Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star Kevin Durant is calling him out for it.

Apparently (we're blissfully unaware, because we've watched as many minutes of Skip Bayless on TV during the last decade as Bayless has watched Oklahoma City Thunder games this season; that is to say we've happily never watched Skip Bayless on TV) Bayless has been on a rant recently trumping up the tired storyline about how Thunder point man Russell Westbrook wants the team to be his, how the point guard shoots too much (Durant has taken seven more shot attempts this season than Russell), and that it's a damning stat when Westbrook ends a game with more shot attempts than Durant. Durant, because he's seen (and even played in) quite a few Thunder games this year, chimed in with this:

"That guy doesn't know a thing about basketball," Durant said of Bayless before the Thunder faced Memphis on Monday night.

Tom Thibodeau exults in joy (Getty Images)

The thing that makes Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau the likely favorite for the Coach of the Year award is the thing that is driving him, and potentially his team, batty. The man -- the brilliant, exacting, intelligent dude who knows way more about this than any of us -- treats each basketball day like a 15-year old treats a high school romance. It's always the end of the world, nothing matters beyond what's either happening now or in 16 hours, and nobody understands.

This is why Tom Thibodeau is going absolutely bonkers in the wake of Chicago's first back-to-back losses on the season. You're allowed to play that back, if you need to. The Chicago Bulls led the NBA in wins last season. They've led the NBA in winning percentage for most of this year, despite watching as 2011 NBA MVP Derrick Rose missed 21 of the team's 55 games. And despite Rose's absences, the team has gone over three months without losing consecutive games.

Not to get fat and sassy as late April, and that postseason, approaches; but this accomplishment in and of itself is worth a laurel and hearty handshake. Thibs' team has already clinched a playoff berth under his guidance, the squad has somehow improved to fourth in offensive efficiency this year (up from 10th in 2011) despite Derrick Rose missing over a third of the team's games, and until Monday night they answered every step back with a step-up win. Still, Thibs is ticked. From the Chicago Sun-Times:

Reggie Miller has made the Hall of Fame (Getty Images)

The Basketball Hall of Fame is an absolute joke. The Baseball Hall of Fame could elect a series of Jack Morris-types in, twice a year, and the Football Hall of Fame could enshrine Tim Tebow before he even suits up for the New York Jets later this year; and those two collectives would still appear as mindful, knowledgeable organizations in comparison to this NBA-addled, logo-shilling front. Call into question whatever practices the Baseball and Football-wings toss out every voting season, and it wouldn't hold a candle to the transparently corporate practices that the shoe company-driven and David Stern-obsessed Hall of Fame routinely churn out. No amount of Dennis Rodman inductions will change that.

This was the case last year, when Indiana Pacers legend Reggie Miller was left off the ballot. This is the case this year, when it comes time for Miller's induction.

We'll fawn over Miller in late summer, when he takes to the stage for his induction speech. For now, the story is that Reggie Miller was voted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, a weird catch-all collective that is also bringing former coach and player Don Nelson into its mix, as well as former Virginia and Houston Rockets center Ralph Sampson. Does Miller belong? Does it matter?

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar never needed a towel at your age, Andrew Bynum (Getty Images)

We can point to the relative luxury of being drafted into a team featuring Phil Jackson as its coach and Kobe Bryant as its residing superstar. We can point to the Los Angeles lifestyle as somewhat warping (shock horror), or the fact that Lakers All-Star Andrew Bynum was one of the last to jump from an American high school straight to the NBA. Whatever the influence, at this point we can all agree that Andrew Bynum has been a bit of a brat throughout his NBA career.

That's the nicest way of putting it, partially helped by the fact that we can't use blue words here at Ball Don't Lie. There are reasons why Bynum can be somewhat absolved for acting like a jerk on the court — Kobe Bryant can be a selfish gunner who betrays his significant basketball smarts because he treats every possession as some legacy-defining highlight hope; and Mike Brown is a pretty poor in-game coach — but there's no getting around the fact that nearly seven years after being drafted, Andrew Bynum is still acting as petulant and careless as the high schooler we were introduced to during the 2005 NBA draft. And last weekend's snotty comment about Lakers coach Mike Brown's huddles reinforced that image. From The Los Angeles Times, as initially found by Matt Moore at Pro Basketball Talk:

"I don't know," Bynum said with his characteristic cavalier attitude. "I don't take part in the huddles."

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If you're a fan of NCAA basketball, the intrigue behind Saturday night's Final Four matchups are already second nature to you. If you're an NBA fan that didn't even bother to keep up with college hoops during the league's two-month lockout-induced hiatus last fall, you might need a little help.

Well, Eric Freeman is your help. Your guide, your sage, your man to look to as we try to figure out just what role these young'ins will play in our NBA lives over the next few years. In case you missed it, here's Eric's breakdown of the NBA prospects of the Kentucky Wildcats, the Kansas Jayhawks, the Ohio State Buckeyes and Louisville Cardinals.

Have fun Saturday night. No wagering. Yeah, right.

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What is Kings rookie Isaiah Thomas looking at? (Getty Images)

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Nothing big to see here. Just San Antonio Spurs center Tiago Splitter in your dad's shirt and a pair of jorts, underneath a giant straw hat, hanging out in the back of a truck with his vintage leather chair and clearly unworkable old TV and being one-upped by Spurs guard Gary Neal as they brag about what a swell relationship they boast with Northside Ford in San Antonio, Texas.

In other news, the Spurs (with Splitter and Neal pairing to average just under 19 points in a combined 42 minutes off the team's bench) have won nine of 10, and are as sound a championship contender as you'll find in this league. Why? Intra-squad competitiveness. As detailed in the video seen above.