RapsareChamps_Suckit | Clippers

2986 | a day ago

if we cant win, then all of u cant win

Longjumping_Club_115

436 | a day ago

fuck it go full scorched earth

LeBronda_Rousey | Warriors

103 | 18 hours ago

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

ctruvu | Thunder

50 | 18 hours ago

can’t be as bad as warriors adding kd

Majestic-Crest189

36 | 18 hours ago

There is no prime lebron or a harden rocket team that give us hope so there is an argument that this is worst.

JonnyRobertR | Spurs

39 | 17 hours ago

There’s Jokic.

XiaoRCT | Thunder

39 | 17 hours ago

Tbh Jokic and the Nuggets or even any other team doing really well right now ARE way more of a threat to OKC now than any team even with LeBron and Harden playing were to the KD Warriors

KD Warriors was dumb exactly because the league was already fighting for it’s life through guys like LBJ or Harden BEFORE KD went there lmao

TippyTripod1040 | Lakers

46 | 15 hours ago

Yeah the analogy to the KD warriors would be if next year y’all replaced Hartenstein with Giannis

juhla405 | Thunder

31 | 13 hours ago

Nah really the best analogy would be if jokic signed with us this last offseason after all the talk about the nuggets being our biggest challenger.

Jeffpardy | Thunder

22 | 11 hours ago

Exactly. And not only that, but if Jokic and the Nuggets were up 3-1 on OKC, then they lose and Jokic playing bad was a huge part of them choking that lead. Then he waits until the last minute in free agency not giving the Nuggets time to try to salvage anything , leaves the Nuggets for OKC, talks about how he couldn’t win with the bums playing for the Nuggets, and then says he’s taking the hardest road by joining the champs.

Majestic-Crest189

6 | 17 hours ago

Im a jokic glazer but he is no prime lebron and for the past 2 seasons he was out by the second round, even lebron got to face the worriors at his best because the east didn’t give him much trouble jokic doesn’t have that luxury.

Unless the nuggets play out of thier mind for 7 games back to back i doupt he would be able to do the job.

Ok-Adeptness-5834

6 | 17 hours ago

OKC is no 73 win Warriors + KD tho

sponedaddie | Lakers

19 | 14 hours ago

I don’t know how to explain it, but it still seems like because OKC doesn’t have as many big names, but just a roster full of the third best player any team could have and SGA, that teams don’t take them as seriously when they come to town.

Then BAM Caruso fucks their Mom.

Nickk_Jones | Lakers

2 | 16 hours ago

Don’t tell that to OKC fans lol.

_smilax | Nuggets

3 | 16 hours ago

LeBron also always had a pair of all star teammates backing him up

jedifolklore | Lakers

5 | 14 hours ago

Let’s make that clear.

LeBron and Jokic are not in the same comparative sentences in terms of Basketball peak. He’s an exceptional player for sure, but don’t let a few podcasts and journalist/former coaches, plus your homerism to galvanise that thought etc. Defensively there’s no comparisons at all to make.

Accolades wise? He went to eight straight finals, eight. ‘Weak East’ or Not, since he left, three teams from the East have been champions.

sponedaddie | Lakers

2 | 14 hours ago

They sure as sh*t showed up in 2015 and 201&.

kwkdjfjdbvex | Thunder

5 | 15 hours ago

He’ll need to figure out how to put up more than 9 shots in the elimination game in that case

Odd_Status3367

2 | 10 hours ago

Can we at least wait for them to win 1 more championship minimum before we start all this doomer shit please.

meowala

208 | a day ago

LMAO

iCarpet | Thunder

118 | a day ago

Hell yeah

RapsareChamps_Suckit | Clippers

70 | a day ago

the whole ducking league,

there’s no scraps in my scrapbook, ‘get it done Butch

ExpressionAlone5204 | Thunder

31 | a day ago

This guy fucks

RapsareChamps_Suckit | Clippers

17 | 21 hours ago

Sometimes I think it’s in my DNA. My family took shxt from r/nba the minute we got off the boat.

clippers, that’s my ducking legacy.

no moradis Butch, no moradis

happyflappypancakes | Wizards

2 | 12 hours ago

Damn dude, what did we do?

likpoper | Trail Blazers

87 | 20 hours ago

Ridiculous. They should just merge the clippers and the thunder. Anyway the clippers handed this shit to them

Nickk_Jones | Lakers

69 | 16 hours ago

That would be one way to knock OKC down to everyone else’s level lol.

dustincb2 | Thunder

23 | 16 hours ago

No that makes us worse 😭

Ittenvoid | Spurs

20 | 14 hours ago

that’s the point

feetandballs | Thunder

19 | 16 hours ago

The Thupper

arryax8086

18 | 15 hours ago

I prefer The Clunders

MddlingAges | Knicks

6 | 13 hours ago

OK-LA

FeeAlternative1783 | Raptors

5 | 15 hours ago

And then punishing that franchise for circumventing the salary cap

samhit_n | Lakers

32 | 19 hours ago

Honestly, teams should just tank games against the Clippers. For once, I’m fine if the Lakers lose games to the Clippers this season.

MddlingAges | Knicks

8 | 13 hours ago

Ah, Ballmer’s 5d checkmate revealed!

Perpete

5 | 17 hours ago

To the Clippers “If u can’t win, then all of us can’t win”.

cire1184 | Lakers

11 | 19 hours ago

Fuck. Gotta lose to the Clippers I guess.

Icy_Cook7427

8 | 19 hours ago

The unction prevails

paradockers

3 | 12 hours ago

Honestly other teams should be losing to the clips on purpose to keep the thunder from getting the number 1 pick

Lou_Peachum_2 | Clippers

3 | 10 hours ago

Love it. By time OKC ages out, we’ll have a FRP again haha.

Longjumping-Rub-6756

986 | a day ago

don’t they also own the 2027 clippers pick and 2028 mavs pick? league might be cooked

KeepenItReel | Timberwolves

592 | 21 hours ago

They straight up look like my 2k franchise saves where I find a way to get a top 3 pick each year and still contend.

snuffaluffagus74

139 | 19 hours ago

Now when you do rebuilds, trade for a star with minimum draft capital (Luka trade) and get so many lottery picks (OKC)it’s not unrealistic. Life imitating art

throwawaymycareer93 | Warriors

60 | 15 hours ago

They are not contenders. They are favourites. And by far.

I don’t even know which team has chances to survive 7 game series against them this season

CoolHandHazard | Pistons

65 | 14 hours ago

People said that last year in the Pacers series and it went 7 with a chance of Pacers winning if Hali doesn’t go down. People also thought the Celtics would have a dynasty after they won the title

EvilLibrarians | Pistons

23 | 14 hours ago

Fr, Thunder may roll over everyone but Pacers already showed us they aren’t unbeatable

Ashes777 | NBA

30 | 13 hours ago

As a professional Thunder hater I want to believe that. I’m worried that last year was the “learn to win” year and the experience will make them a force.

EvilLibrarians | Pistons

8 | 12 hours ago

I’m counting on them being better this year! But I’m willing to bet other teams can step it up too really

aBakeinthelife | Pistons

6 | 14 hours ago

Just like Tatum, Shai goes down and it all collapses. Obviously not wishing that on Shai, but this is the NBA and there’s always another team waiting to take the top spot.

ambal87 | 76ers

3 | 13 hours ago

I think OKC is less dependent on Shai than Boston is on Tatum but your point still stands. I keep pitching the idea that OKC should package all their picks and slap together enough salary to go after Giannis for this reason though.

MddlingAges | Knicks

3 | 13 hours ago

And it cost the Pacers everything!

Wes___Mantooth | OKC

2 | 11 hours ago

Mainly just the Nuggets

Legendacb

2 | 15 hours ago

2k general managers seems to not give a fuck for the father picks so it’s really easy to even get those for a few seconds.

Eventually I just change any not top 3 pick for 2 or 3 picks on the future

Flimsy-Fisherman6567 | Heat

154 | a day ago

Mavs should be good by 2028 with Flagg devoloping. Clippers owing their pick next year too though is doomsday scenario considering they probably blow up the team by then.

mangabalanga | Thunder

171 | a day ago

A year ago the Mavs were a contender and this pick looked like nothing, I’m not gonna start overthinking it now when we’re still this far out

ahrumah | Supersonics

46 | 19 hours ago

And then it looked like gold after the Luka trade. Then just a so-so asset after the Mavs lucked into the first pick. Then potentially better than we expected after Flagg and the Mavs slow start. Then maybe not so great as Flagg starts to flash more. Then…

thatguy12591 | Knicks

17 | 16 hours ago

And theeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnn?

Front_Brilliant2949 | 76ers

5 | 16 hours ago

You forgot Kyrie’s injury

Longjumping_One_9164 | Thunder

67 | a day ago

I wouldnt absolutely bet on the Mav’s being good, they will have both AD and Kyries salary still on the books.

There may be a team that takes Kyrie depending on how he looks as his contract may be manageable. But you will still be taking a better on his health.

Byt the Clippers are pretty much guaranteed to be awful next year, even if Harden does stay on.

filipposkt

8 | 19 hours ago

While they have the current owner, this pick is fantastic.

Flagg eating two extra burgers in summer 26’ and they will trade him for Lillard

Dimaaaa | Spurs

2 | 18 hours ago

The Mavs need more than a developing Flagg though. Kyrie and AD will most likely both be gone.

buchukoy_carding | Thunder

24 | a day ago

Yup, 2027 unprotected pick swap.

Razatiger

1 | 13 hours ago

Good god, the Mavs better pray to be good in a couple years, because AD, Kyrie and Klay will all not be there for the 2028 season.

nba2k11er | Warriors

802 | 20 hours ago

If you are a GM, block Presti’s number.

OSUBoglehead | Thunder

162 | 14 hours ago

Every GM in the league is calling him asking if he wants to trade his picks back into the future for his near term roster crunch.

Escritortoise

137 | 20 hours ago

Ghostface Presti: “Hello Vlade, do you like trades?”

Odd_Status3367

20 | 10 hours ago

“Sam, for the last time, they fired me 5 seasons ago. PLEASE stop calling me. And get rid of that fucking voice changer, you sound ridiculous. “

UnimpressedAsshole | Pelicans

47 | 14 hours ago

And get Dumars on speed dial

MddlingAges | Knicks

9 | 13 hours ago

Both phones!

Express-Pandas | Kings

27 | 14 hours ago

This is like changing the locks after the thieves had ransacked your house, the damage has been done

Odd_Status3367

4 | 10 hours ago

“Hey, it’s Sam here. Sam presti. Prestigiacomo. Anyway, yeah, so we have a bit of a logjam in the early bench unit, just wanted to see if you wanted to talk trades. Kind of weird, first RC doesn’t pick up now you. Huh. Must have matinee games or something. Anyway, yeah, we are just looking for little retools, nothing serious, we kind of like where we are right now haha.

Anyway, yeah, give me a call back! Oh and if you happen to get a hold of Brad today, let him know I might give him a ring. Alright, see ya. Please call back.

It’s Sam Presti by the way. Forgot if I mentioned that. Okay, b- oh hello? Hello..? oh I thought you might have picked up. Nevermind. Bye.”

Temporary_Ice6122

2 | 11 hours ago

Presti is a good gm but this trade he just lucked into mostly because of Kawhi

boringexplanation | Kings

17 | 10 hours ago

We also thought the pick trade with Dallas to get Gafford was unusually generous on Prestis side. Turns out only he knew that Dallas was going to eventually trade Luka, somehow.

alpacamegafan | Spurs

5 | 7 hours ago

He got Shai. That’s good enough for the trade to give him his flowers.

Area51_Spurs

589 | a day ago

We really went from Sterling destroying the Clippers franchise to Ballmer destroying the whole fucking league.

Helluvan organization y’all running down there in Inglewood.

LunchThreatener | Pistons

198 | 21 hours ago

Nah man. Sam Presti is destroying the league by being too good at his job

_smilax | Nuggets

100 | 16 hours ago

He has the instincts of a hedge fund mogul, sell high buy low accumulate scarce assets in a zero sum game

urgentmatters | Thunder

88 | 16 hours ago

Crazy thing is that he’s done this without burning any bridges. Players and execs only have the best thing to say about him.

crimxona | Canada

45 | 15 hours ago

He gives other GM instant gratification by taking on bad salary (with picks attached) or by giving them current year picks or young players for future year picks (and maybe more picks attached)

Just so happens both help OKC as well

kwkdjfjdbvex | Thunder

40 | 15 hours ago

The George-Shai trade is going to go down in history as one of the worst trades of all time on paper but I don’t even think the Clippers are going to be bitter at Presti for that, it’s not his fault it didn’t work out with Kawhi and George and it did make a lot of sense at the time with the information available considering Clippers pretty much got Kawhi out of that trade aswell.

They just gambled and lost

nefnaf | Celtics

15 | 14 hours ago

The problem with the trade was that SGA was included in the deal as though his value was just a throw in à la Max Christie, but he had already flashed enough at that point that people (who were paying attention) knew he was gonna be a star. They knew SGA was the future of their franchise and they traded him away without getting any value back. Presti played them for chumps by insisting on getting SGA and yet not letting up on draft compensation.

We can discuss leverage, but the bottom line is that the Clippers FO bungled the trade badly.

Bombshock2

6 | 15 hours ago

He’s amazing at the job, but he was also handed a generational situation of two top tier players around their prime, both on short contracts and both wanting out at the same time, and two teams that traded a friggin busload of picks and a future MVP for those players. (edit: to be clear, the situation I’m referring to is that Russ and PG both wanted out at their peak value AND the Rockets and Clippers were willing to overpay to get them, not just Russ and PG being there in the first place. Presti did a lot to get to that point, and so much more after that, and I am in no way minimizing that. But the situation was very fortunate regardless and he made the most of it.)

Generational bag fumble from the Clippers and Rockets tbh. Not to say Presti hasn’t made other big moves since. Landing SGA, clearing 70 million in cap space and gaining 9 first round picks in one offseason is a massive swing.

mathgeek777 | West

34 | 15 hours ago

Presti was hired in 2007 by the Sonics, just in time to draft KD. He wasn’t handed the Russ/PG situation, he helped build the original Thunder, then made the PG trade to keep them semi-competitive post-KD instead of tanking, convinced PG to re-sign with them, then moved him and Russ at their highest value, then repeatedly traded for bad contracts in exchange for picks and put those players in good situations to highlight their value and turn them into positive assets to trade for even more picks (Horford, CP3, Kemba though they just ate his money) while allowing SGA to learn and play competitive basketball as a fringe playoff team then committed to him long term through the true tank years way before he was an MVP level guy, then actually made the right draft picks to surround him with talent. He’s by no means perfect as some people seem to think, he’s made his share of bad moves, but a whole lot of GMs have done a whole lot worse walking into better situations. It would be pretty akin to if we looked up in 15 years and the new Washington or Charlotte management had built a title contender, watched it fall apart, and was now back in contention again

Round-Cellist6128 | Thunder

7 | 14 hours ago

He wasn’t handed PG, he won the first PG trade with Indy.

Bombshock2

2 | 14 hours ago

That’s also true yes. Not trying to minimize what he did before the PG and Russ trades at all. But effectively flipping Oladipo and rookie Sabonis for 5 first round picks and SGA is crazy. The PG trade in particular is baffling from the Clippers standpoint, especially with the benefit of hindsight.

Round-Cellist6128 | Thunder

3 | 14 hours ago

With hindsight, for sure. I thought PG and Kawhi were gonna win a championship at the time. I was also more excited about Gallinari than SGA, lol.

Somenakedguy | Knicks

3 | 13 hours ago

I don’t disagree with the overall point but Russ absolutely did not leave at the peak of his value. His last 2 years in OKC were a big decline from his MVP season (especially 2019) and he was awful in the playoffs and kept getting crushed in the first round

He was 30 at that point too and there were a lot of question marks about him declining and the nba changing and leaving him behind

That’s why he got traded for a perceived worse contract in CP3 with 2 picks and 2 swaps instead of the monster haul he would’ve gotten back in his prime

TheRavenOnline

498 | a day ago

I speak for everyone when I say we NEED the Thunder to get the #1 pick

Vitex1988 | Thunder

463 | a day ago

“The 2025-26 NBA Champion OKC Thunder win the #1 overall pick” gets 25k upvotes guaranteed

Sartheking | Warriors

151 | a day ago

The only comparison for this was the Showtime Lakers getting the #1 pick from Cleveland and drafting James Worthy.

thetangible | Pistons

13 | 20 hours ago

Can you imagine if the showtime Lakers drafted Dominique Wilkins (who went 3rd in that draft) instead of James Worthy?

randy88moss | Lakers

92 | 19 hours ago

Worthy was the perfect fit for that showtime Laker team.

SpamAcc17 | Timberwolves

32 | 19 hours ago

I’m glad they didn’t, Wilkins is a much more ball dominant player. Slashers need possessions.

RapsareChamps_Suckit | Clippers

42 | a day ago

pride comes before the fall, just remember that my friend

Vitex1988 | Thunder

65 | a day ago

it would probably get 30k downvotes as well tbh

RapsareChamps_Suckit | Clippers

22 | a day ago

that’s a lot of downvotes, ‘Tone

iCarpet | Thunder

33 | a day ago

I have little faith that we will land in top 3 with the Clippers pick

We had a 76% chance of landing top 5 in 2021 with a chance of getting two top five picks and we ended up with the 6th pick only, which was the second to worst scenario. It eventually worked out for us, but this feels like one of those moments

revisioncloud | Thunder

39 | 20 hours ago

That pick? Josh Giddey became Alex Caruso leading the Thunder to its first title

Also landing 2 top 5 picks that draft would probably get us both Mobley and Barnes, which likely means no Chet the year after

Basketball gods work in mysterious ways so I wouldn’t say getting a top 5 pick this draft would spell doom for the rest of the league. After all, we still have that thing in San Antonio

Ok-Courage7495 | Thunder

5 | 20 hours ago

It does feel like there’s an expiration date to this named Wemby sometimes, doesn’t it?

flarbas

5 | 17 hours ago

I feel like because of injuries, Wemby and Spurs never win a championship. He’s not going to have a super long career.

PaOrolo

4 | 15 hours ago

If y’all had gotten Mobley AND Barnes then you’d still be sitting really fucking pretty. Barnes won ROY and Mobley was DPOY last season. Your outside shot wouldn’t be as good but those two on ANY team would be sick af.

I hear ya, though, on the Spurs. I think people in this thread are forgetting how good they’re looking with their incredibly young core.

revisioncloud | Thunder

3 | 15 hours ago

Yes those are great players and not a knock on them at all. I remember r/Thunder raving about them at the time especially OKC is Mobley’s fave team growing up and Barnes had a really good workout and talked about being excited to play here

It’s that of course we’re biased now and knowing what we know, we’d still rather have Chet and Caruso

manimsoblack

2 | 20 hours ago

That comment made my night

RapsareChamps_Suckit | Clippers

9 | a day ago

Ernest Hemingway once wrote,

‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.’ – I agree with the second part…..

Saltwater_Thief | Suns

6 | 20 hours ago

What fall? The only thing that can possibly save any of us from a 10-year dynasty is the OKC owner’s pocketbook getting too tight.

Ok-Courage7495 | Thunder

22 | 20 hours ago

Wembanyama has a whole ass prime in front of him. Shit can happen.

Saltwater_Thief | Suns

8 | 19 hours ago

Wemby is one All Star talent, you have 6+.

RegretsAreBadAssets | Magic

10 | 19 hours ago

Best player in the series often wins. Wemby can get to better than Shai in time.

Castle and Harper arent low upside guys either.

PaOrolo

3 | 15 hours ago

Castle and Harper are looking real nice too, though. But they’re at least two years away

wcooper97 | OKC

4 | 17 hours ago

But don’t forget, we won’t get our own thread stating that we won the championship lmfao.

Argus747 | Thunder

5 | 15 hours ago

nah it’d get like 3k, the championship thread got less than the average lebron highlight

Repulsive-Throat5068 | Lakers

25 | 21 hours ago

Who the fuck is everyone… give that pick to the wizards or kings

LonzosJohnson | Lakers

27 | 19 hours ago

I don’t know, man. The clippers losing the #1 pick would be pretty funny.

M1nc3ra

12 | 20 hours ago

We? Who is we dawg?

ConstantlyHating | Wizards

5 | a day ago

It would end all the conspiracy theories that the draft is rigged that’s for sure

appealingtonature

2 | 17 hours ago

Last year for sure, but I’m not sure you can undo the frozen envelope one

Rthanos | OKC

3 | a day ago

Agreed.

YourBarelyWetSock | Lakers

268 | 21 hours ago

This the kinda shit i dont even allow myself to do in 2k franchise because it makes the game too easy and not fun. Insane fucking work from Presti.

Simple_Wait_7286

212 | a day ago

Still early in the season. I do think the Clippers will be better as the season progresses, probably reach the play-in on the back of Harden. Even at 5-15, they are only 3 games out currently.

But just the fact the Thunder have a legit chance at a top 5 pick is so disgusting.

Global_Key_410 | Nuggets

60 | a day ago

Clippers haven’t been sub 500 since 2011. I expect them to end up near 500

imbutawaveto | OKC

18 | 13 hours ago

The team name doesn’t get the record. The players do, and these players are old and busted and don’t fit well together.

Critback | Trail Blazers

51 | 21 hours ago

But just the fact the Thunder have a legit chance at a top 5 pick is so disgusting

This was always the fear that they’d become good (nobody knew how good) and still have all of those draft picks with one or more of them becoming something significant.

Strange1130 | Thunder

1 | 16 hours ago

I agree. We also have the Jazz pick (top 8 protected) and Sixers (Top 4). I assume the Jazz will try to keep their pick, and as the real tank off happens the Sixers and clippers standings will be boosted. I imagine we wind up with something like 9 and 12 type deal.

Big_Tonight184

3 | 14 hours ago

They will go on a decent run in the 2nd half of the season when the tank wars truly begins. I also suspect your going to see a lot of teams resting players vs them. No one wants to see OKC get a top lottery pick. They will get a lot of help…

carelesssportsfan89 | Spurs

79 | 21 hours ago

Rest in peace parity in the nba you had a good run

BruceBrownMVP | Nets

40 | a day ago

If their top 8 Jazz pick doesn’t convey then the thunder gets nothing, not even a second round pick. Makes me surprised that Ainge hasn’t shipped off Lauri yet when you look at how many ass teams there are this year

Leavingtheecstasy | Thunder

38 | 20 hours ago

Its because he keeps asking g for 4 damn 1st rounders. Nobody is paying that for Lauri. You aren’t getting mroe than 2

AlVic40117560_ | 76ers

18 | 17 hours ago

It’s ok, they’ll get the Danny Ainge special right after the deadline where the report comes out about a big trade that he almost made, but he just couldn’t part with some random guy getting 5 minutes a night

itsVainglorious

38 | 20 hours ago

Potentially two top ten picks lol

J-M-Beno

9 | 19 hours ago

I thought it was 3

crimxona | Canada

24 | 15 hours ago

The Jazz will go scorched earth before they give up that top 8 protection

If it doesn’t convey this year does it ever?

Strange1130 | Thunder

6 | 16 hours ago

Yeah technically it’s 3, but it’s unlikely. We have clippers unprotected, jazz top 8 protected and sixers top 4

rumblegod | Thunder

32 | a day ago

yall don’t get tired of this conversation lmao? is this bots??

aninstituteforants

24 | 21 hours ago

Some people dont use reddit every day.

Rsthegoat | Hawks

11 | 16 hours ago

Bro, the league might be shit down for like, at least a half decade

AcceptableHamster419

27 | a day ago

And they are due some justifiable punishment for Aspiration on top of it all.

I have a feeling the entire league except for Thunder fans will now be totally fine with a slap on the wrist lol

TyraTanks | Lakers

50 | a day ago

Nah, I hope the league drops the hammer, and hard.

manimsoblack

8 | 20 hours ago

Force sale

Jayveesac | Lakers

26 | a day ago

Bury them to the ground until 2040. OKC are winning much like how GSW won and not by blatantly circumventing the cap. Oh wait, the Clippers did that and didn’t even win anything ☠️

KumingaCarnage | Warriors

3 | 20 hours ago

You say it like the warriors circumvented the cap or am I reading your comment wrong.

Vitex1988 | Thunder

1 | a day ago

As punishment the Clippers can’t have draft picks, we can take all of them off their hands

Chessh2036 | Hawks

26 | a day ago

We all need to team up and let the Clippers win a couple of games. If we lose to them on Wednesday I’m just going to assume this is what we’re doing

HB3187 | Nuggets

19 | a day ago

Is this turning into the Tatum age thing where people mention it 5x a day lol?

Public_Radio-

17 | a day ago

It’s thunder fans jerking eachother off p much

Vitex1988 | Thunder

34 | 21 hours ago

The Luka and LeBron circlejerk ended for the day, now it’s our turn

mauro_membrere | Kings

18 | 21 hours ago

Silver give us the 1st pick for once

PrimeTimeInc | Hornets

13 | a day ago

You know how the Mavs won the lottery this year? Thunder about to hit the opposite of that.

Otherwise_Key_759

9 | 15 hours ago

+1, this is where we find out how much of a soap opera Silver runs

LoFi_Funk

10 | 15 hours ago

The fruits of great planning, execution and patience in a “win now” league.

Credit to SGA for trusting the process too.

TrustQ

9 | a day ago

Thunderstruck

Parallel-Quality

7 | a day ago

It’s too early for this. The pick could easily end up outside of the top 10.

chuerta9 | Thunder

28 | a day ago

Ok whatever I guess we’ll just have to settle for the next Jalen Williams then

FootballRacing38

15 | a day ago

How will the poor thunder cope with a measly lottery weak.

Vitex1988 | Thunder

8 | a day ago

It could just as easily end up #1

JackDellaCumalena | Heat

2 | 19 hours ago

It doesn’t matter because thunder are excellent at drafting. Whoever they get will be the perfect fit

bassicallyinsane | Trail Blazers

7 | 15 hours ago

19-2 after today

H3rQ133z | Thunder

10 | 15 hours ago

Cute.

checks flair

clenches buttcheeks

I mean, goodluck!

EkruGold | NBA

6 | 15 hours ago

I really hope they win first pick, become a dynasty, just so people can start bitching and say that it’s rigged while they three-peat.

Sincerely yours,

A Celtics fan.

OhSoManyThoughts

6 | 15 hours ago

I think what a lot of folks are yet to fully grasp is that because of the new salary cap rules, the value of draft picks has increased substantially.

A rookie scale contract rotation player is worth a lot more than it used to be cause of the new aprons, and OKC is now in a position where they can have a high paid core of Shai, Chet and Jalen Williams, and a carousel of high draft pick rotation guys to supplement, AND the flexibility to trade without restrictions cause they’ve got the 12th lowest salary cap in the league.

Familiar_Somewhere95

5 | 14 hours ago

remember when people said okc has traded for a bunch of 12 year olds. Well they are all grown up now

MallardDuckBoy | Bulls

7 | 14 hours ago

What’s crazy about all of this was Shai was just a throw in to those picks.

gashndash

5 | 17 hours ago

lol we just witnessed that lotto odds means nothing. Silver will decide who picks where based on the best interests of the NBA

Agitated-Risk5950

4 | 12 hours ago

Ballmer focusing on new arena and compensation maneuvers he forgot about basketball

The-Pharcyde | Raptors

3 | 11 hours ago

This is organizational malpractice by the clippers

asisyphus_ | Lakers

5 | a day ago

Please speed I need this, the rest of the league kinda ringless

riczizagorac

4 | 21 hours ago

Teams need to start letting the clippers win some games lol

TheRicFlairDrip | Mavericks

3 | 20 hours ago

All teams except OKC should only tank against the clippers next two season

PSNaughtyInsomniac | Timberwolves

3 | 15 hours ago

Thunder gonna be around a while then huh

Cloudz777 | OKC

3 | 14 hours ago

Clippers: You all hate us anyway, watch us do this

bad3ip420 | Celtics

3 | 14 hours ago

The OKC dynasty is official.

All thanks to the Clippers

Responsible_Emu3601

3 | 11 hours ago

What if they get #1 and #6?

AtreusIsBack | NBA

3 | 10 hours ago

That Paul George trade to the Clippers really created a possible dynasty.

Neinhaltt

3 | 10 hours ago

League fucked for the next 5 years at least

kickinwood | Hawks

2 | a day ago

Yeah! And it’ll keep on this way until you selfish bastards lose to the pelicans.

18AndresS | Raptors

2 | 19 hours ago

Fuck the Clippers

AlVic40117560_ | 76ers

1 | 17 hours ago

Who would have ever thought that tanking would work! Especially when you start off with a few hall of fame players! Too bad Adam Silver fixed tanking.

Striking-Medium2360

3 | 16 hours ago

Hot take: tanking is objectively the best way to quickly get back to a good product and the teams that people constantly complain about as tankers are just run by incompetent people who don’t fully commit to the rebuild. The actual tanking process is over far quicker than teams like the king or hornets who want to constantly contend for the 10th seed.

Raangz | Thunder

2 | 14 hours ago

Spurs tanked for wemby, it’s proof of concept right there.

ThisIsEduardo

2 | 14 hours ago

TBH where would they be without the SGA trade though? lots of teams are perennially in the lotto and never build dynasties

AlVic40117560_ | 76ers

2 | 12 hours ago

There are a lot of teams that are perennially in the lotto because they’re poorly run. Not because they’re tanking.

And where would they be without SGA? They’d still be a good team with 4 first round picks. But the whole point of tanking is to get a player like SGA

ChickenLiverNuts | PHI

3 | 4 hours ago

will never get over it

fuck the nba for slamming us and then legitimately making tanking worse

teams are tanking out of play in spots. Its what they deserve for fucking us over

Their hand picked replacement to “fix us” embarassed the team and the league far more than any tanking ever could have. Bunch of fucking goons. And they got rewarded for it because the fruits of the process led to many top 3 years in attendance.

fantasyfootballthrow | Knicks

2 | 16 hours ago

Wait, the Thunder also have the 9th, 16th AND 27th picks this year? Rest of the league is cooked for the foreseeable future.

pendletonskyforce | Kings

2 | 14 hours ago

And they wont even trade those picks right? Just so they could draft rookies who are cheap rather than taking on more salary?

PapaMuns

2 | 14 hours ago

S.

Snapphane88 | Finland

2 | 12 hours ago

Damn, what a beautiful website, really nice.

psu021 | Bulls

2 | 12 hours ago

“Draft lottery odds” as if that shit isn’t rigged to begin with.

ClickElectronic | Mavericks

2 | 11 hours ago

Honestly with the Mavs imploding, fuck it give them all the top picks. Dynasties are fun to watch if your team isn’t anywhere near contention.

Shame that their fans here are so annoying, but I guess every team that wins gets smug bandwagoners.

kemicalkontact

2 | 10 hours ago

Presti is the real Draft King

Remote-Expert-3125 | Lakers

1 | a day ago

Like the Lakers drafting Worthy.

Ok-Courage7495 | Thunder

3 | 20 hours ago

Feels good.

DropYourPuffs

1 | 18 hours ago

Insert Jesse meme

carrotsticks2

1 | 18 hours ago

this is like when you turn off trade logic in NBA 2k and hoard picks for years, but irl

Thorlolita | Rockets

1 | 13 hours ago

The blue print for bad teams is just taking bad contracts and picks. Presti knew that. Other teams should be following suit.

AztecGravedigger | Thunder

2 | 13 hours ago

Not that simple. Not all bad teams have players as good as PG and Russ were at the time to trade. Not all bad teams have a trade partner with absolutely zero leverage like the Clippers because Kawhi was demanding they get PG and everyone knew it. And not all bad teams are gonna score a young player that blossoms into an MVP. I agree with you on the blueprint, but that blueprint is rarely gonna end up looking like OKC.

AztecGravedigger | Thunder

1 | 13 hours ago

such bs if any other team did this it would be a foul smh

HipnotiK1 | Knicks

1 | 7 hours ago

Can we stop this nonsense. I’ve seen this posted over and over.

Clippers will improve they aren’t finishing bottom 5. And Utah will keep their pick (likely finish worse than the clippers)

Suspicious-Fun-3754 | Suns

1 | 10 minutes ago

We going to make this post every day now?

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