Why the Thunder could be set for decade-long run
Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill is joined by David Aldridge of The Athletic to discuss how Oklahoma City's collection of young talent and a pile of draft picks could make this a team on the verge of a long running dynasty in the NBA. Hear the full conversation on 'Good Word with Goodwill' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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I'm excited about these files.
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I'm excited about OKC.
I like good teams.
I like great teams, you know, um, if they are a budding dynasty, good for them.
I don't know of a team in recent history that is set up as well as OKC because it's not just that they have a great young team and a, and a superstar MVP on their roster.
It's that they have SGA and they have homegren, and they have Williams, and they have Harenstein, and they have Caruso, and they still have 8 billion draft picks, 8 billion first round picks the next 5 years, even if the roster does become expensive in the next few years, even if they do have to spend a lot of money to keep homegrown and to keep Jaylen Williams and to keep SGA.
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They can always get rid of any of those players at any time because they've got multiple firsts that they can attach to any one of those players' contracts to send them on their way and get new players in to replace them.
That's the point.
They will never be lacking for incoming talent the next half decade.
Name a player other than SGA who I think is the guy they will not trade under any circumstances.
And I don't think they would trade homegrown under any circumstances.
I could be true, but I think those are the two, those are the two that I think they go, we can't, we're, those are the two we're keeping.
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And that's why OKC's runway could be incredibly long.
It could be close to a decade long of them being If not in the finals every year, a contending team year after year after year after year because they have the ability to replenish their team any time they want, you know.
And, and since they have rarely made mistakes in terms of personnel, I, I would bet on them not making mistakes when it comes to making trades.
And they have a big 3 when we thought big 3s were dead.
That's why the, that's why the league should be scared to scared to death out of this team.
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