OKC Thunder Capture NBA Draft Lottery Picks | Playoff Matchups Down to Two
The Oklahoma City Thunder are getting another NBA Draft Lottery after the L.A. Clippers fell to the Golden State Warriors. How a top pick would change the OKC Thunder. Plus, the Suns and Warriors will face off to determine the Thunder’s first round matchup. Rylan Stiles is joined by Brandon Rahbar to discuss the NBA Playoffs, NBA Draft and more!
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20 Comments
Kinda reminscent of when Celtics got the second pick and chose Len Bias.
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Other than Lu, Hart, decisions waiting on Wiggs and Kenrich.
Also with the way Presti scouts out new talent, optimizing his pick, seems this lottery pick from the clippers is just straight gold for a guy like Presti.
Seems the atmosphere for developing young players in OKC is better than just about any other NBA team, four MVPs that played for the Thunder within the last ten years came out of the Thunder, has anyone pinned down why Thunder have a way of making great players top notch?
I want Cameron Boozer to be in the OKC Thunder!
Also Thunder might potentially trade their lottery pick, their other 1st round pick, and a player to move up in this year's draft to get a better pick, somehow they gotta make room on the roster. It almost seems like the NBA should let have teams have 18 players on their roster instead of just 15. Kinda have a feeling Thunder are going to have let Barnhizer go.
IF they get a Top 4 pick, Lou & Ihart resigning, Cason extension, all become effected by that. IF they got 4, Sam could legit trade himself into 1 with all his picks.
This may seem somewhat absurd if Thunder during the off-season could get a Paul George type trade for JDub, it would help free up cap space, maybe some lottery team would trade a whole bunch of 1st round picks for JDub, not saying JDub is not talented but there was a stat where Thunder won more without JDub than with him.
GS or Suns too easy! Let's beat them 4:0 and rest for 2nd round!
Ideally we draft twice but we only have one spot next year. Which is why I want them to trade Topic with one of the two picks – he is now surplus to requirements with emergence of Ajay and J Mac.
Rylan, does Rugiet offer a pill to cause an erection to SUBSIDE? Because since the Warriors sent the Clippers’ lottery pick our way, I have a problem.
The Draft is fixed..just look at the Cooper Flagg for Luka fiasco…no way the NBA lets Okc get a top pick..
That was an all time rant Rylan.
I hope Wemby enjoyed his load management. 😂😂😂😂😂
Better for GS to beat Suns. OKC goes to 2% chance for #1 pick. Maverick’s got Flagg on a 1.37% chance.
Lendenborg and Mara. Trade Wiggins to move back in the first round and draft Swain or Cenac. Let Dort hit free agency. Extend ,I-Hart. If Cenac shines bye-bye Carlson 🎉🎉🎉
Someone please take Ryan's smelling salt away 😂😂😂
I wouldn’t mind the thunder drafting Aday Mara dude is A stud standing at 7’3 him and Chet would be the best front court of the modern nba
Last night was the first time I knew what it felt like to root for Steph and get excited for when he goes super saiyan. As an OKC fan weve been on the other end of it…but because I want that Clippers pick I was able to truly enjoy it…and it felt amazing
Great that we get a lottery pick but we also gotta keep in mind that we’re probably playing the warriors in the first round which not only will be exciting but maybe a passing of the torch.