Where labor movement is restricted, this is how you build and maintain excellence in a business:
For the rest of the NBA, this should be a scary development. They have the MVP in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. He and all of Oklahoma City’s key players are under contract for next season, there’s a 2024 lottery pick in Nikola Topic who didn’t even play this season because of a torn ACL and the Thunder currently have two picks in the top 24 in this year’s draft as well.
They are young; their starters, right now, are 27, 26, 26, 24 and 23. They are bold. And they might — should — be contending for a while.
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It’s just starting. Presti has a war chest filled with draft picks and the team has some financial flexibility to add a piece if it so chooses.
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