How The Thunder Built A Championship Team
The Oklahoma City Thunder are NBA champions and have completed their historic rebuild. Their season was ended in 2019 when Damian Lillard sent them home in 5 games, but shortly after that Sam Presti executed one of the best rebuild the NBA has ever seen.
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The Hayward trade was also to clear some cap space – cap space we would use to sign Hartenstein
I can't believe you guys skipped over Mike Muscala like that smh. He was a huge part of the locker room during the bad years and was one of our biggest FA signings (lol) until Hart. Coincidentally, he's the reason why the Sixers got Tyrese Maxey instead of the Thunder
They got Gordon to free up a shit ton of cap space off his expiring contract which they then used to extend Joe and Wiggins. That was a purely financial trade and it worked out great.
I’m happy at okc and Shia won. Definitely rooted against Indy because they killed my cavs, but I’ll give haliburton and squad their credit. I think the only team in the east that might have had a chance was Boston but they were struggling against the knicks and obviously Tatum Achilles. So maybe the pacers were the best team in the east. Regardless, Indy has only themselves to blame for losing the series. Look no further than game 4. Total and complete choke job.
Even Westbrook hating on the Thunder. It is so sad how grown men sitting around hating on young talented men, when they should be mentoring and encouraging them, they hating. It's pathetic
The Thunder broke the hexes from Seattle, Kevin Durant, James Harden and Lil B (who put the hexes to the Thunder, KD and Harden).
The Thunder broke the curses from Seattle, Kevin Durant, James Harden and Lil B (who put the curse to the Thunder, KD and Harden).
Imagine starting lineup of
1. Shai
2. Jdub
3. Mcdaniel
4. Chet
5. Sengun
Perfect youth, balance of Defence and offense as well
4:47 no one who was an okc fan was shocked we made the playoffs
Let's all give a big thank you to kawhi Leonard and the slippers because this Oklahoma City thunder rebuild was brought to you courtesy of their dumbasses😂
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You can see the reason why OKC wins – there is no one with a selfish mindset, team first me second.
Thats what most other fans doesn't see, they only care about their own stars, how this ring was an asterisk, the what-ifs if Hali didnt get injured.
This is what I have seen in OKC ever since they broke the team up in 2019.
AC and iHart were the final pieces we needed to win the championship
The Paul George Finals really had a great narrative LMAO
Would love to see a Pacers version of this video but probably should save it for when they win the championship in the future.
This vid should be like 9 minutes they rebuilt in like 6 years, and that’s not a bad thing, it’s good that they rebuilt so fast.
I completely forgot about McDaniels and Sengun. I don’t even want to image that team 🥶
Harden shouting at Dort after blocking his shot and forcing a turnover in 2020 first round game 7 will be forever etched in my mind due to the fact that 5 years later, it is Dort who won a title while Harden still chokes in the playoffs anywhere he plays.
Can’t wait to see the blazers roll out their all center lineup with yang running the point! 😅
Six-peat incoming. TTFU
Lol at tying the series up 4 a piece
We have to thank pg13 if he did not signed a 4year deal with the thunder, presti wouldn't be in the position that he can demand anyone and anything from the clippers
I'd say pg13 is a thunder legend than the snake kd who left the thunder with dust
Respect boys, kinda feels crazy as an OKC fan to have reached the top. The league is after us now, big target on our backs
I knew the Thunder finessed the Clippers but damn, that was a complete robbery
We’re definitely a little spoiled 😅 going to enjoy the moment! Glad we have the best GM in the league so that we can have these times!
6:15 presti should resign Alex’s Pukushevki
The Hayward trade was for his expiring contract which got us the cap room to sign Heart!
Man, I love listening to this duo. They are so passionate about the NBA. Being a Blazers fans, they must be burning inside but the respects on what the Thunder has done just shines through. Keep on releasing more videos!
We LOVE our OkC guys!!! 😍 Forevermore!!!
Rebuild of a NBA team in the dictionary has OKC Thunder ⛈️ as the definition because us thunder fans have been spoiled but pretty much our entire existence since '08. We've only had like 4 years of non-playoff basketball in our existence with like 2 Finals and 4 conference championship appearances in our 17 year history and did I mention 25 NBA World Champions 💪
Funny how they didn’t mention the fact that Giddey was going thru stuff off the court during the 23-24 season. Like idk, some serious accusations
The big plus of getting Hayward was that his expiring contract meant they had the cash to sign iHart!
The Caruso trade didn't even impressed me. I was just glad that Giddey was out of the team (he's a real liability). What impressed me the most was the signing of Hartenstein. It was at that moment I knew, OKC going to win it all.
After all that shot was not a "bad shot" that was a "good shot".😂
To answer the question about who wanted to leave first Russ or PG. Russ was informed that the team would be moving in a new direction and was told we will send you anywhere you want and he chose Houston. Upon finding this out Paul George then requested a trade.
The Thunder were so lucky they didn’t go against the Warriors 😂