He started off bad but was heating back up the past 2 weeks

He hasn’t gotten minutes but his game is still pretty damn good. Any young guy that has a polished mid range scoring game is a guy you wanna give a chance to. Also he’s coming off a knee injury last year, and a thumb injury this year, needs to play himself into form.

I don’t think it’s that hard to figure out that no training camp, an injury to the shooting hand and inconsistent minutes and usage would make it hard to quickly get up to speed.

There is zero reason to believe he isn’t the same guy as last year ability wise.

Wonder how much PT he will really get in OKC this year. Seems like a move to potentially replace some guys next year.

Yes but Nurse gave him no opportunities and refused to use him like a shooter

It’s a tough injury and he’s been looking a lot better

Philly is an underrated fun city. He’ll have lots of time to do nothing other than improve in OKC.

Nah phillys cool and walkable

I mean, he’s not getting any rotation minutes on a healthy Thunder team either. At least not this year.

Bro come on we have Onion Burgers and they fucking slap

Him and J Will is an elite TikTok combo

Trade him somewhere else then. I’m a little surprised no other team was willing to give a first outright.

And grimes is the main guard coming off the bench

Exactly. Owner needs to petty cash for PR after being in the Epstein files

Sure. But he’s a second player coming off injury who showed a lot of promise in that first year. His three point shooting is trending back up recently as well.

He’s obviously not going to start this year, but OKC gains a lot flexibility to allow him to develop.

With SGA and JDub out for a bit, he’ll get his shot

OKC don’t really need starters. We need decent bench ball handlers which McCain can hopefully be

Its literally s socialist system

There’s people on our sub freaking out about the pick swap with Detroit as if there’s any true difference between throwing your dart on 29 instead of 23

Especially considering it’s the Thunder. They got millions of them anyways

Its one of my pet peeves about trade discourse. A lot of these picks only value is being potential future trade fodder. Most of these picks amount to nothing.

Presti: Is it true that if you don’t use it, you lose it?

I wish more people understood this. So many times I see the phrase “a first is a first”, and it just makes me smh.

He was like the 19th pick though so it wasnt that bad

I think it would mainly be the Lakers fans having this PTSD

They already have a full roster before this trade so somebody has to go and it’s looking like it’s the Frenchie.

& they got Caruso who helped them get a ring…

Absolutely a win trade for them..

Nikola Topic has a chance to get a 2nd ring this year without playing a minute of NBA basketball. Lol. He became the first person on an active roster to win a ring last year and could do it again and be joined by Sorber.

Sad sad day for the thunder when Presti retires/accomplishes his goal in OKC and moves on.

How many GMs have a statue? Cause he’s getting one

Best front office in most sports to be honest. Dodgers are doing it with money, Thunder doing it with brains

It’s because the nature of being in OKC means you almost HAVE to build the right way. I truly think the FA superteam model is a terrible way for most teams to build and only works when one of the big ³⁄₄ is a Steph or LeBron level player, especially now with the new apron rules, most of the past few championship teams have been winning through dynamic duo + strong teams

Sonic’s revisionism

Because you guys don’t hang the SuperSonics banners in your arena (respect) I feel like this is an acceptable view. Even if you did start with KD and Russ

Living out our Sam Hinkie dream :‘( happy for y’all though lol

I understand why Morey did it but I don’t like this at all. Nope. Damn.

Treat him well…

that would require Weltman to have the balls to admit his roster construction sucks

I mean sounds like there isn’t really a team that fits those needs better than us though honestly

Even with Maxey & VJ you kinda need another guard. Like who is your backup guard next year if Grimes gets even a decent offer sheet? Edwards? you’re only gonna have 20-25mil in luxury tax space next year with 6 roster spots to fill, having a guy with upside like McCain tied down to a cheap rookie contract is really valuable

They gave up a rockets pick as the first lol. That’s basically 4 2nds for McCain who was great before he got hurt

Oh Jesus I can’t read