Stephen A. applauds Sam Presti for his assembly of the OKC Thunder 👏 | NBA Countdown 

Steven Adams, Russell Westbrook, Nick Collison, and Enes Kanter will always be honored in OKC no matter where they go.

@@G-Blocksterno, we hate them here

​@@G-BlocksterEnes Kanter is not on the same level with other guys. He is a member of a terrorist cult and now he's trying to win the support of white supremacists.

Being from OKC Steven Adams is a legend!

​@@OPGrimmztf no we dont.

I am with you. Not just that. They have good picks coming to so draft smart and Don't add anyone so called veteran. Keep the young dudes. This team can be so good. They got ridiculous offense, they got defense.

@@knowledgespoiled1247 👍

how about they pick Bron next year if lakers lose and think to rebuild around AD. OKC just a Bron away from the finals

@@knowledgespoiled1247so you want them to keep adding young guys that they won’t even have minutes to give them?

No Some of the players they got need to go and when i said add, i mean add quality players @@changed_name1951

Exactly as an OKC fan I will be the first to say I expect this team to win 1 series at best. But let them go through it and experience and learn from it together and they will be way better off that way in the future

Find a new home for Josh though

​@@burnixone Why? Because people passed judgment on something that we don't have enough facts to base any judgment on?

I'm giving them this season and next season max. If by the middle of next season they're not a clearly better team than what they are now then they should 100% make a move but only then.

Durant wants them to trade for him.

You’re as good as your record says you are. So if they start losing a lot, why wouldn’t analysts change their mind based on how they play? Now if they ever win a chip or two or four, then you can complain that the analysts are writing you off too fast.

They’re on our meat now but the last 2 years they called us “the black eye of the league” and dogged us for tanking for a year or two. All while Detroit has been in a 18 year rebuild.

@@colbysmith3073 exactly my point. I didn’t forget when they were calling us sewer dwellers and how we making the league look bad because of the supposed “tanking” now it’s how genius presti is and how calculated the moves have been.

Righy the moment they have some sort of mini losing streak like they do now having lost their last 2 games, they gonna say something like they overrated. Give me a break.

I’m die hard OKC fan , pretty sure players enjoy getting their flowers . They’re not in LA so don’t worry they won’t become milked

He didn't really apologize though, just talked around an apology 😆

@@evanmcdonald8612he literally said he aplogized😂

"I want to apologize" and "I owe this man an apology" Nah, that's not an actual apology. But also i don't think SAS really needs to apologize for anything. Presti gives zero fucks, for sure

Every time tho. You beat the Celtics and he apologize all the time. Watch when the lakers beat them

@@evanmcdonald8612do you sleep at night 🤨🤨🤨

Clippers OKC Wcf will feed families

@@AliFrankTheTank 🤣🤣🤣

we should be. theyre all extremely young and 90% have never played a playoff game

if you think only 1 out of 30 teams are giving 100% right now then you have clearly not been watching this season.

And then to Denver and then to BOS

That would actually be cool to see 😂

💯

They will be a 1st round out just don’t have the experience yet

Yep 1st round exit

Yes this what they should do get Lauri to OKC

​@@Josephlokzz OKC will not trade Markkanen you average minds

@@dillatronic4757 yes they could you scrub imagine the amount of first round picks they can provided in exchange UTAH is looking to rebuild this is step in the right direction and helping Lauri in the process

@@Josephlokzz Okey we're going to trade Markkanen for 2 second round picks only? How about that? Don't try to screw him over to us.

@@dillatronic4757 I didn’t even say second round picks I said first round picks what you are high look up how many picks OKC has

Y do u guys always say oNe gUy aWaY WE DONT NEED A SOUL

needed one against atlanta tonight @@darriusg5007

OKC doesn't need a star just a veteran rebounder.

That's why he's stacked the war chest with draft picks, I honestly believe he stockpiled picks to move up in drafts to select high quality picks to fill out his roster when he starts handing out max deals......reality is most good teams that hand out maxed deals can never draft quality players sdue to draft position, so they struggle to fill the roster with good players that are cheap via the draft, warriors failed, the heat failed, celtics failed etc. The only time a good team got good talent in the draft was through a blip when they were injured and bad, for the next 7 years OKC can trade two 1st and a 2nd to move into the top 10 and add quality cheap depth and presti has shown to be a good drafter... This position they find themselves really is a unique one

Bob Myers got lucky that a once in a lifetime cap spike happened that got him Durant. He also got lucky in 2015 that they played all teams who had their best players injured ending with Cavs without Love and Irving. He signed DeAndre Jordan to a max deal in 2015 that would have ruined their cap and made it impossible to sign Durant. He got lucky the Clippers matched. Not to mention Curry having ankle problems that got him to sign a much lower contract than he deserved if healthy. He is good but he also had a lot of luck with his job and the opposite is true with Presti.

Westbrook*

Not really, it was Golden State only one year. LeBron and the Spurs are the reasons they didnt win but the biggest one is untimely injuries. Russ in 2013, Ibaka in 2014, everyone in 2015, just would always get unlucky.

Believe me you are not gonna get any championship if your leader is Kevin Durant and your coach is Scott Brooks.

It wasn’t presti decision to trade harden, it was the owners

@@okcthunder8993 Feel free to prove that with actual facts. Good luck.

You do realize Presti is not the owner right? You do realize he has to get the owners approval to spend into the luxury tax?

Yes, he decided Ibaka was more valuable than Harden and it will go down as arguably the stupidest trade in the history of NBA management. The Warriors dynasty never would have happened had he kept Harden.

@@joeldriver-sp2rg Ibaka WAS more valuable to that team. The real mistake is not using the amnesty clause on Perk's contract. If they amnestied Perk's 8 million salary they would have enough for both. To this day I dont get it and I pray someone says why that is.

@@davorbeljan4369 LMFAO You didn't just seriously say that, did you? You think Ibaka was more valuable than an MVP level player? Dude, go learn basketball and come back and try again man. Harden was INFINITELY more valuable than Ibaka. The mistake Presit made was signing Ibaka 1st for 48 million which didn't leave enough money to give Harden a legit offer. They should have waited to sign Harden 1st and if they lost Ibaka so be it. There is no universe where Serge Ibaka is "more valuable" to any team in the history of basketball than James Harden.

@@joeldriver-sp2rg If you have 2 other MVP players who need the ball then a monster defending and shot blocking big man is a bigger need. Again Ibaka's contract had nothing to do with it. If they used the amnesty clause on Perk they would have enough money for both. But seeing how Harden is right now, it was obvious it was never about money, he is just addicted to attention. He wanted a bigger spotlight.

Relax bud they did a back to back and it was close it’s not like they go blown out

So you’re blaming the gm because the players underperformed in the playoffs makes sense also how does that make him the worse when most gm can’t even draft no where near as good and have teams that are constantly competitive

@@Wrestle_Kingdom No, I'm blaming the GM for stockpiling picks and not using them to build. As of this writing he's had 19 1st round and 19 2nd rounds accumulated. That's 38 picks for crying out loud. Who did he spend those picks on? Steven Adams (whom he traded), Andre Roberson (who's in the G-League right now), Damontis Sabonis (whom he traded), Cameron Payne (whom he traded and has basically been a journeyman), and Chet Holmgren (who might be ROTY). He had those picks when James Harden was traded and could've used them to add to the roster of OKC while still having Russ, KD, Ibaka, and Steven Adams. Instead he kept the picks and hesitated to use them and the 2016 Thunder blew a 3-1 lead and loss to the warriors. He was betting so much on the future that he couldn't see what he had in OKC.

@@tonywong8134 you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about because all those players you named were around before okc got all their picks and was drafted before they traded for all their picks they did not have 38 picks anytime before 2020 also one of reason he has picks now is for trades and to add depth because back then okc was stuck and couldn’t get better because a Lack of assets

No

Hell no