This will be the No. 1 storyline this year in the Oklahoma sports landscape. Westbrook and Paul George are gone. The college market could never put a top tier shooting guard along them and in Oklahoma it won’t be the NBA team driving the sports news cycle in as much at some point you have to start playing games and can’t just trade away players for draft picks.
The Jalen Hurts story is a great one. He was 26-2 as a starter at Alabama and was part of two national championships and then got beat out by Tua for the QB job. He didn’t transfer. He hung in there and got a chance in the Georgia game. He led his team to victory with a miraculous comeback and now as a graduate transfer at OU he has an opportunity to close his college career on his terms with Lincoln Riley.
It doesn’t get much better than this and sports fans in Oklahoma will be able to forget what just happened with the Thunder this free agency season.