Tank Diaries: I’ll Be Missing Shai The Thunder have won one game over the past month, and the longing to see SGA play again has started to set in Share this story Getty Images/Ringer Illustration We used to get food after practice and ride out to Jared’s house. Watch AND1 mixtapes, Iverson games. Dead deer high on the living room walls. Satellite television. Eastbays in the bathroom. In small country towns, kids get creative looking for entertainment. One evening we drew a target on a paper plate. Then someone stood in the yard and held the dish while someone else lit a Roman candle and shot at it. A convoy of pink-orange light sprayed loud out of the stick and the guy holding the plate bailed, ran for the pasture. We’d drag the mini trampoline beside his hoop, throw alley-oops to each other, dunk on each other, get mad at each other. And sometimes we were boring. Drive into Muskogee and putter around the video store, skim preseason college football magazines, slander their position group rankings, try to agree on a movie. We sat in Taco Bell parking lots eating quesadillas and listening to Mike Jones. We drove to Tulsa for no reason, turned around, went back home. We did bits under the trophy mounts and played Madden and read