Practice Media Availability | NBA Finals Media Day Interview Room | June 4, 2025 | OKC Thunder
Joe Masado, the Oklahoma Shay, from the beginning of the rebuild to now, you and Sam always seemed to be sort of on the same page with with what the plan was. Can you just explain what maybe how that level of understanding between you guys got your team here? Honest and upfront with me um from from day one. I think that helped our relationship right away. Um you don’t get that that very often, especially that early. he um seemed like a guy I can trust and uh he’s been that and I just try to be the same back to him. Um nothing more than just two guys with good character trusting each other um and have one common goal in mind. Over here standing on the left, Jared McCain. I’m the NBA player correspondent. Uh I’m big into the mental side of basketball, of sports, of life and visualization, meditation and stuff I do every day. And I just want to know like what do you do on the mental side of it to stay prepared, stay focused in these high pressure situations? Good question. I honestly I completely plug out like I turn my TV off so there’s no like basketball highlights going. I don’t watch basketball. I like I just spend time with my family, my friends, and I try to like remove myself completely from basketball because it just consumes so much of my life and my day. And then like when I it’s time to plug back into it, I’m eager to get back into it. Like I missed it. Um so yeah, I just try to find like a balance of plugging it in and out of it. Over in the right second row, Shay Tim Reynolds with the AP. Um you guys have obviously handled your business very professionally this year, but you also have a lot of fun the way you guys play, the way you guys play for one another. Do you think it’s going to be difficult to to keep that sense of fun even though you’re now playing for the title? that it’s the finals, it’s the big stage. How will you guys stay true to who you are in this huge environment? Yeah. I I don’t think we have a choice. Um staying true to who we are is the reason why we’re here and we be we’d be doing ourselves a disservice if we if we change or try to be something we’re not once we got here. Um we’ve had success doing so and um if we want to keep having success, we we have to be who we are. Um, and it’s organic, so it’s nothing like we have to think about our force. It just is who we are. Um, no matter the moment. Michael up front, Shay. Michael Graange from Roger Sports Net. Congratulations on the MVP. Thank you. Um, you know, there’s four of you guys here this week. you know, yourself, Lou, Andrew, Ben, and and maybe just briefly what it kind of says about Canadian basketball, what it’s going to be like battling against, you know, friends, teammates, and uh, you know, just when you look at the your season and Steve Nash’s legacy, where do you think what you’ve done builds on that? Sorry, Mike. The first question was was just uh what it’s like going to be battling against and with friends at a stage like this. Yeah, it’ll be fun. Um, like you said, like playing with those guys, like I played against Andrew when I was nine years old. Um, like it’s it’s been an amazing journey and to see him having success, my my own success, obviously L success, Ben success, like it’s special. Um, it’s hard to even wrap your head around just kids that like there’s so many kids that played in the same games that we played. Um, and for us to make it to this stage is a testament to our hard work, our character, the people around us that help us get here. Um, and it’s and it’s been a blessing. It’s it’s been super fun. Um, and then what did you say about Steve? Follow up. I know he’s been a a real supporter of yours. Um, we’re not going to get into a goat debate, but uh, you know, what would it mean to to take it to the next level to win a title and on top of an NBC NBA uh, MVP season? Yeah. Uh, it would be it would be amazing. Uh Steve obviously just a pioneer for Canadian basketball. He started the whole thing I guess you can say from the way he plays to the way he carries himself to his approach to the game. Like I learned so much from Steve being a 17-year-old kid in two weeks of time. Um that helped me get here for sure. So, the things he’s done with Canada basketball in a whole and just push the culture forward has been amazing. And then to to win a title on top of everything that’s happened this year would be special. Um, I said this so many times, but I don’t play for the individual stuff. I don’t play for anything else besides winning. And I never have my whole life. I When I was 9 years old, I played to win an OBA championship. When I was 20 years old, I played to win SEC championship. And now I’m 26. I want to win an NBA championship. Like, it’s always about winning for me. on your left over here. Joel Joel Lorenzi with the Oklahoma State Shade. You you told us after game seven of the Denver series that you had been nervous in the day or two leading up to what are you sort of feeling as a series approaches and and how difficult is it to as you say sort of plug in and plug out this week? Yeah, it’s been um a little bit different in that situation. Uh situation I’ve never been in before obviously. Uh but it’s been it’s been fun. Uh as these playoffs go on, you get better in controlling the situations, controlling your emotions. You understand what’s coming. Uh but but it’s been it’s been fun. Like the opportunities here, it’s been a long week to wait. feels like the days have gone slow. But um yeah, I just like I figured out how to like navigate through all the emotions and the nerves and and the waiting process. Uh which is just plug into my loved ones. Um try to not think about it so much, stress about it so much, and just enjoy life and stay in the moment. Fourth row on the right, Vinnie. Sh Vince Goodwill, Yahoo Sports. Um, you guys have had a historic season so far, 68 wins, the double-digit wins, the road to the finals. Have you had a moment to reflect on being on the doorstep of history in this time since the conference finals have ended? There’s a lot of idle time, a lot of time to sit with your thoughts. Do you have a chance to even appreciate getting here, appreciate how dominant this team has been this season? Honestly, not not really. I’ve been been so focused on like just game one. Um trying to be the best version of myself for this group and and try to make sure that we’re clicking on all cylinders on the biggest stage of our careers has been the front of my mind and all I’ve been really worried about when I do worry about basketball. Um so yeah, to answer your question, I haven’t really um taken the time to look back, see all the things we’ve done, but I I will when it’s all over for sure. Dan, last question here on the left side. Ch Dan Deanyahu Sports. Uh, you guys have faced some fantastic offenses in your road through the Western Conference. Uh, now you deal with the Pacers. What makes them different? What kind of challenges do they pose that are maybe a little bit different from what you’ve seen so far? Yeah. Uh, like you said, every team has their their strengths and their weaknesses. They’re a very fast team. I think like above all they um they understand how they’re how they’re playing and they’re very like stubborn in their approach and they uh can kind of like grind you with the way they play and they they like wear you down. Uh and you don’t get here without being a really good team on both ends and they’re that we know that coming into the game. Um but yeah, they’re they’re very um they know their identity and they stick to it no matter what. Uh Jay, uh being such a young team, uh there were some uh questions about how inexperience might play against you. Uh how you guys handled that and how uh was Mark role uh how uh Mark play uh against those concerns. Um, we try not to feed too much into what the media has to say in regards to inexperience. And I guess the thing early in the year was like being too young. Um, when you’re young, I feel like we just kind of use it to our advantage. Like we we try not to look at what we can’t do and just focus on what we can do and be really good at that. And I think Mark has done a really good job of instilling that in us since I’ve been here for the past three years. And it’s just something that we get harped on a lot in the thing. And as we grow through these experiences, young or not, you know, when you can learn from whatever situation you’re thrown in, it makes you better. And I think that’s why we’re here right now in this moment. Again, Sam Rosen Center. Hey Jaylen Dafos from Spain. I was going to ask you about that too because uh we talk a lot with an Spanish XNBA player and he always says that character means more than experience in the playoffs and I think you guys being such a young group uh really embody that. So how do you feel about that statement? No, I think it’s true. I I think honestly if you look at both teams, you you look at Indiana and you do like a closer look on them, they’re they’re like us. Like you can see the team chemistry they have. you can see that they love playing with each other and they enjoy being in these moments together. And I think that’s that’s starting to look like what the blueprint of the NBA is. Um, when you get a group of guys that like playing with each other and like doing stuff for each other and just are constantly willing to like make the extra sacrifices, extra plays for each other while we go through these ups and downs of the season. I think that’s what makes you a good team. Steve on your right. Uh, hi Steve Ashurner NBA.com. You draw duty defensively. um where you’re asked to guard smaller, guard bigger. I’m just wondering what prepared you to be able to handle those type of uh demands and any key ingredients to actually being successful at that. Um God had me grow at the right time in college. So I was short for a long time, so I was guarding little guards and then obviously I grew and I think that kind of helped. Obviously the taller you are, you can guard more positions. I would like the Thunder did a really good job I think grooming me into that. Um just throughout my first year they they just put me in so many different situations and I was able to learn from him and get better through the situations and I just I think I was in a really good position where like as a rookie I was able to do like trial and error and do a bunch of stuff like that. So when I get to these moments now I’ve had more years under my belt to like learn how to guard bigger guys, learn how to guard smaller guards. So, I’ve been able to like grow through the process of of doing that. And then defense is a mentality, too. Like, regardless of who you’re guarding, if you go out there and compete, you know, you could be pretty good defensively. Over here on the left, Joel. Well, Lorenzi to Oklahoma. And Dub, you you said after the Denver series, I believe that you hadn’t really slept leading up to game seven. How have you sort of handled the emotions leading up to the series? How have you digested this and and have you had time to sort of put into perspective, you know, what it means for you to be in the finals in in year three? I haven’t really wrapped my head around the fact that I’m in the finals. I did like the correspondence thing two years ago or I guess like a year ago. No, two years ago, right? Yeah, two years ago. And it feels like life has been such a blur since that. I’m still trying to like get over the fact that my brother’s in the NBA. like there’s so many like things that have happened since then that I’m still trying to take in. So, it’s very it’s definitely a blessing that we’re here and I try not to get too caught up in it because we still have a job to do and I and I’m trying to like really focus on that. But it is whenever I can like get a couple days off to like really look at it and this past week like I’ve been able to like really just be able to take a step back and just look at how far I’ve came. Standing on the right Dan uh Jaylen Dan Devine, Yahoo Sports. um as you’ve had this sort of longer layoff and opportunity to get a closer look at Indian Indiana Indiana look at them. What’s sort of leapt off the screen about the way they operate offensively? You know, what makes them maybe a different challenge than some of the other offenses that you’ve dealt with so far? I think everybody’s seen it. Um I don’t want to give too much away, but uh they they obviously play fast. That’s their thing. And so you kind of got to tip your hat to them. The playoffs is just historically something that really slows down pace. So for them to be able to impose their will on that and obviously when the last win the last three series they played doing how they want to do it I think is really impressive. So that that’s what we’ve kind of like seen and I don’t think that’s really like a big secret but um that that’s where they’re unique. Fourth row Vince Jaylen though Vince Good Yo Sports it wasn’t like you guys are just sort of coming out of nowhere. You were a pretty good team last year, but you’re so much more dominant this year with the net rating, the point differential, and everything else. Was there a moment or have you taken a moment to appreciate how dominant you guys have been? You’ve had a lot of blowouts. There’s been a lot of instances where you’ve sat the fourth quarter. Has there been a moment of even reflection through this in the locker room saying, “Guys, this is different than last year.” I think maybe like middle of the year. I think not having bigs like you remember like heart and chat route for like a good majority of the season too. I think for us to be as successful as we were during that I think was a big moment for us. But at the same time it’s a very like weird position you get put in because you want to you want to look back at the regular season but you really don’t get any regular season awards you know what I mean? So um and I think just the playoffs come up so fast you can’t really look back at it. So hopefully, you know, with, you know, we’re trying to win the finals. That’s where we’re like where our focus is and we can look back on this later on, but I I would just say the middle of the year was more like where our confidence got going from that. Third row on your right. Hey Jaylen, uh Scott Gansel from the score. Um I’m just curious u playing alongside Shay as long as you have, you know, uh what’s the biggest thing you’ve learned from from even being around him, playing with him, anything like that? uh his mentality um he’s just a winner. Like he just has a I’mma get it done mentality and I think that’s kind of rubbed off on the rest of the team. You can always see doesn’t make excuses and I think that just bleeds over into the team. So, I would say I probably taken that from him and I think he just has I think that’s where he’s grown up to just as a leader and not saying that he wasn’t early on in his career, but I think just for our team, he’s been really good leading us that way and he’s a good like lead by example. David Aldridge in the back right. Okay. Told me told you who I am. Uh the success on the court obviously expresses itself in terms of bringing you guys closer, but I wonder how has the city and the region kind of gotten into everybody’s skin to feel like this is a great place to be. This is a great place to operate. I’ve honestly felt like the energy from the city since I’ve been drafted. Like when I got here, there was a ton of people outside the hotel like waiting to see us and congratulate us. I always compare it to like a small local like high school football team being really good and like the like the city around them kind of like gathers around them. Like that’s how Oklahoma is. But it’s with that with like the whole state. Like everywhere we go, I’ve been met with like love since I’ve been out here and it’s been it’s been a really cool experience. So, I’m really happy that I get to be a part even the past two years like I get to be a part of two really good teams and I think it just brings the city more and more life and it’s I’m happy that we get to like bring that back here over here in the fourth row. Uh third seat in there you go. Hey Jaylen, uh Esperhane from NBA Daily wanted to ask you obviously the playoffs have their es and flows and that could be long in its own way. What have you learned about your game over the last couple of months? Um, I wouldn’t say I’ve learned anything new about my game, but I think what I’ve learned is there’s highs and lows with every series. There’s highs and lows with every game. And the more that you can stay even throughout it all, the better off you’ll be. And I think that’s where I found a lot of my success. One of the most important things that he’s come in here and taught us is the importance of uh executing the details. Um, you know, you’ll see so many times he makes a huge play out there and, you know, it really comes down to inches. Was he in the right spot by a few inches? Was he able to reach the ball and poke it away by a few inches? And that comes down to knowing where you need to be and when you need to be there, what you need to do um, and how to execute it. and he’s really come in and and preached the importance of that and and kind of showed us shown us uh firsthand um what that looks like and uh you know it’s been big. It’s it’s helped all of us and uh you know it’s been big having him. Joe here in the second row. Hey Chad. Joe Varden from the Athletic. Nice to see you. Um what is the pressure that the Pacers put on opposing bigs with just having five guys who can shoot threes? Yeah. Uh I think I can speak firsthand on this as um you know we we can do similar things at times with some of the ways that we play. Uh you know it really opens up the floor. Um you know and it’s not even so much about uh opening up the floor uh and being able to attack just the five. Uh it comes down to opening up the floor for everybody else to be able to attack as well. So, um, you know, it really comes down to being able to play solid, uh, and, uh, kind of defeat the point of attack. Scott up here on the left, Scott Agnes, Fieldhouse Files over here, Chad, I’m curious, were you aware that Donnie got his start in the league as a Pacers ball boy? Yes, I was. Yeah. Can what kind of impact has he had on you, especially this year trying to rehab and staying with it? Yeah, I couldn’t couldn’t say enough. Uh, you know, I’ve spent respectfully a lot more time with Donnie than I’d ever wish to. Uh, not cuz Donniey’s not a great dude or one of the best at his job in in the NBA, just cuz, you know, if you’re with him, that means you’re hurt. So, you know, trying to trying to avoid that. But, he’s been uh he’s been amazing. Uh I I don’t think there’s been any hiccups in any of my uh kind of healing processes and you know he’s a big part of that so it’s much appreciated. Nick Chad I just wonder what these last few days have been like for you. Mark has always talked about sort of your insatiable, you know, insatiable un u wavering hunger for more information and, you know, to dig into this matchup and some of the fundamentals and the point of attack stuff that you were talking about earlier. What’s this been like for you as you know, a competitor that’s preparing mentally? I mean, it’s been great. Uh I I love the playoffs personally because in the regular season um you’ll run into situations where the schedule is uh really beating another team down and uh they’ll kind of take a game to you know reload and everything and then uh you know towards the end of the season some teams are playing for certain things uh or playing for have different uh I guess you could say intentions. Um, but in the playoffs, you get everybody’s best shot every single night, which, uh, you know, is the way you want it to be. And, um, you know, it’s been great to be able to learn from every single night and, uh, try and figure out how to be better for the next one. And, uh, you’re also seeing the same team for two weeks rather than playing a new team every single night. So, you’re really able to take a deep dive, get into things, and, um, you know, really try to, it’s really like a puzzle. you know, you got to take the time to figure it out rather than uh in the regular season, I feel like you’re just working on your own stuff. Uh and trying to build build yourself throughout the whole season. In the playoffs, it’s it’s then taking that and uh also trying to kind of figure out the other team. Standing in the front right, where do you feel uh over here on your right um better or more evolved as a player than you mentioned the playoffs, last year’s run? Where have you gotten better? Yeah. Um, I feel like I’ve I see the game better uh in in different ways. Obviously, last year we had a very defined uh play style and we kind of lived or died with it and and this year we have a lot of different looks that we can throw at teams and um you know I feel like I still have a long ways to go and I can improve in in so many different things on both ends of the ball but uh you know being able to kind of see those situations and and work on them. I feel like I’ve been able to to improve on them. second row in the right. Chad Tim Reynolds with the AP. Your team obviously you’re all young. Shay’s the MVP. You’re an enormous talent. Dub’s enormous talent. Lose an enormous talent. You can keep going down the line. And yet you guys don’t seem bothered at all by who the guy is at any given time. As long as you guys are winning, you guys are cool with that. And that’s not common for young teams. Why do you guys make it all work? Uh, I’d say the biggest thing is, uh, playing for each other. One, uh, and two, the type of type of guys that we have here. You know, if you ask anybody that everybody’s going to tell you that they’re a winner. Um, and everybody is a winner until it’s inconvenient for them. You know what I’m saying? Uh, I feel like we have a a team with 17 winners, uh, that, you know, are going to put winning at the top of the totem pole. over any other uh any over anything else really. Um and does that mean that you’re guaranteed to win every single night? No. Uh but you know, when that’s the main focus, uh and you’re not, you know, working towards anything else, uh you’re able to to you know, kind of chase that better than uh if you had a different perspective on it. standing on the right. Dan Dan Devine, Yahoo Sports. Uh chat, we’re back here. You mentioned earlier the viewing these series as sort of like a puzzle you got to put together, teams that you got to try to solve. When you look at this Indiana team, what’s the most important puzzle piece you got to try to figure out to try to solve them? Uh that puzzle is also a secret. You know, that’s my that’s my answer. Sorry. I love I wish I could give you more, but very loose as you’d expect them to be. Even though you have, you know, most of your guys have not been on the stage obviously. How have they handled the buildup to this? And how do you think they’ll handle the different feeling that you know is coming even though they’re at home tomorrow night? It’s just going to feel different. How will this group, how is this group wired to handle that? Well, the first thing is we have to be who we are and we enjoy coming to work every day. That’s how our facility is. uh regardless of whether or not it’s the finals or regardless of any whether or not anybody else is there. Um and I encourage them to to be that we have to stay true to who we are in this whole experience. And then we have to acknowledge the things that are different. There’s a lot of different uh elements around the game and we also have to understand the things that are the same and when the ball goes up in the air, the game’s going to come down to the same things. uh whether or not you win or lose is going to come down to the same things and uh it’s okay to acknowledge that it’s going to feel a little different outside the lines, but we have to understand it’s going to be the same inside the lines and that needs to be our focus. On your right, Simone in the front. Oklahoma City is a unique NBA market. Can you talk about the the impact on the of the Thunder on the city and vice versa, the impact on the fan base, which is obviously a great fans base on the club? Well, the people that have been here since the beginning can speak better to what um the team has meant for the growth of the city. The city’s a lot different uh than it was when the team first moved here, which is a credit to Mr. Bennett um and the vision that he had for what this team could mean to the community. And uh the community and the team have just a very unique relationship. It’s the only um professional sports team in town. Uh the fans are unbelievably enthusiastic about the team and I’ve said this many times before, but um when we were rebuilding and we were winning a lot less than we were losing, um the support and encouragement we got from our fans uh was really telling. And I think it’s had a lot to do with our ability to develop young players cuz when you’re a young player in the NBA, you’re trying to find your footing. Um you’re trying to establish yourself. um there’s a lot of uh you could be uneasy about that process and to be in a market where everybody is rooting for you, everybody’s supporting you, everybody’s encouraging you, and you feel that at the games and in the community, I honestly think that has um an impact on our player development. I think our young players have grown up faster and have performed better because they exist in this market. On your left, fourth row, uh Mark Adaga from ESPN Brazil. uh you’ve been here for five years and uh early years were certainly challenged like you just said uh and this roster was built piece by piece. Uh I would like to know when the and what point did you realize that uh this team was uh really competing for the title? There were very early flickers. You know, even in those early years, those were challenging years uh at different times and certainly they look like challenging years on paper. They didn’t feel um they were not how it felt every day was not a reflection of our record or where our standing was in the league. You could feel that something was starting to simmer. Um you could feel that some of the seeds we were planting uh were going to be flowering at some point. There were very early indications of that even in those seasons. Uh and so we were confident even back then uh not necessarily that we’d be in the finals right now. you know, you never know the timing of when things come together, but we were confident that we were building something uh special and something that had the ability to sustain. And then um as time went on, uh there were just more and more experiences that gave us more and more confidence in that. But um that belief existed uh at the earliest point in time. A lot of that had to do with the way the guys were approaching every day independent of the outcomes of the games and the way the guys were competing together, you know, regardless of what the final score was in some of the games. Uh there was an uncommon approach that our team was taking and it gave us a lot of confidence early on. All the way back on the right, Jeff Zil, USA Today. Mark Rick Carile has had a pretty solid two and a half decade run as a coach in this league. Um, what has stood out to him stood out to you about him in terms of his longevity, ability to adapt to different teams, personnel, and eras? I mean, I I can’t say enough about him. Uh, and the respect I have for him, I think the whole is better than the sum of the parts. Uh, almost consistently across every year he’s ever coached. Uh, the team is better um than their. I think that’s a reflection of him. Uh his teams play with a very clear identity. They stay in character through all the ups and downs. That identity has changed over the years based on his teams, based on the league trends. Um but his teams are always in character and this year is certainly no exception. And his his players play with a lot of confidence. Uh his best players play with a lot of confidence and role players play with a lot of confidence. Uh and they all seem to operate on the high end of their capacity when they’re playing with him. So, um, you know, he’s got unbelievable endurance in the league. Um, and what I’d also say is like he’s he’s kind of out in front of some trends in the NBA right now. And to be somebody that has the experiences that he has, um, that’s very impressive that that he’s been able to evolve uh, and be a trends setter even as he’s been one of the longest tenur people in the NBA. On your left, Nick. Mark, obviously turnovers have been a huge storyline for your defense all year, but also you’ve forced teams into shooting really low percentages uh throughout the season as you go up against a team that’s shot it extremely well uh all year, including here in the playoffs. What are some of the key, you know, fundamentals defensively that you all are going to need to lean into to kind of combat that battle? I mean, it’s they’re a they’re a tall task. I um the fundamentals are not complicated. You know, it’s not like we’re out here emphasizing new things. you know, we’re not inventing anything this week. Um, and you know, their attack is very simple. Um the theoretical way to stop it is is simple and in reality it’s very difficult to do as you batter. It’s different when it’s time to hit it. So, it’s going to be a very tall challenge. Second row over here. Uh, coach, I know you spent over a decade in Oklahoma City, but from a a kid from Lemonster, Massachusetts to the NBA finals, uh, how surreal is it, you know, coming from all the way from Leers to to here to the finals? It’s awesome. You know, it’s awesome for everybody. Um there’s uh every single person that’s participating in this, whether it’s coaches, players, staff, there was a time in their life when this was just a dream. This wasn’t a foregone conclusion for them. Um and that’s every player that’s participating. There’s a time where they were in their driveway uh shooting uh one-on-one with a basket counting down the end of a game. And so that’s what makes it so special to participate in. That’s why it’s such a great opportunity for everybody. We’re all very humbled and grateful to be a part of it. Last question on your right. Michael Mark. Michael Grer. Uh um just want to ask you about Pascal Seakkum and what he lends to Indiana in terms of a half court option and do you feel you are well suited to kind of countering that defensively? Easier said than done just like I talked about their team, but you know great versatility on both ends of the floor offensively. Uh he can play in the pick and roll game as a handler or setter. He’s an isolation player that can go get them uh a high quality shot. He can get fouled. He can post smaller matchups. Uh he’s kind of a matchup um problem, you know, quite frankly on that end. And then defensively, he’s one of their best help defenders. He’s always eating space like all the great help defenders. Got great length. He can also play on the ball. He can play outside and inside. He’s just he’s about as as rangy and versatile of a player as you can get at that position. So somebody we have high respect for. Uh, and obviously a huge part of the
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Weird ass audio. Random buzz spikes. My favorite part was when Markโs mic fully cuts out towards the end! This is the highest stage of this sport. Be better.
Shai so level headed and mature. I love this team!!! THUNDER UP!!!
Shai Is SUCH A PRO MANEEEEEโคโคโคโค
THUNDER UP! โก๏ธ letโs go boys
This team's choice to play as a team will go down in history as how you win at any team sport or life for that matter. #ThunderUp
Thunder up!
This will be an interesting matchup, they also play fast paced, hit 3s, get steals and have a 10 man rotation. Hope we donโt get comfortable with being expected favourites and play with the same intensity.
Chet, lose the sunglasses. This ainโt Hollywood.
"…two guys with good character" Thank you for giving yourself a bit of credit Shai, it's okay! Your humility always shines through (loved the shy grin with it too) ๐ That's what makes this thing work so well, Coach Mark & our reigning MVP x's โ๐ฝ, doing what they do & not needing to damage or mock the strength of other men in any way to get it done! King's of the Paycom Center ๐ #ThunderUpโก๏ธ
Happy that Shai butter is our head of the snake ๐very levelheaded and confident! Always plays to win!! He is the real MVP. Go Thunder!!! Shai gives real answers too, not just cookie cutter answers to get thru the interview.
This Thunder team has really shown true brotherhood! They've started trends across the NBA without even trying….like how they do the group post game stuff and embracing Nick Gallo like he was apart of the team… great example!
When they win this they should bark lol forget what draymond was talking about.
How can there even be a debate on who should be the face of the leagueโฆ 2Shai!!!
Let's go big Chet!! Looking forward to seeing you do your thing just like at Gonzaga! Play free and easy and make your presence size length and skills felt!
Hats off to the 2 small market teams that have kicked the door open and are in the 2025 NBA Finals!! Just goes to show hard work talent dedication and chemistry and good leadership goes a long way! Thunder Roll! ๐๐๐
Some of these questions are so stupid and repetitive.
Stock media answers aside, this may be the most highly intelligent team in NBA history
Chet..lol
What happened to the missing audio during Coach Daigneault's answer?
Why is Jared McCain there ๐
This dude is a GQ model mane.