Sam Presti Can Sleep Again

There’s still the Carmelo Anthony and Brian Davis matters to clean up, but otherwise Sam Presti has re-installed his mojo swagger as one of the better GM’s in the NBA.

Think about what has happened since Kevin Durant proclaimed Draymond Green as his basketball soulmate on the Player’s Tribune on July 4th, 2016.

Here’s what Sam Presti has done: he’s basically re-done the OKC Thunder on the fly without any first round draft picks other than the one used to draft Terrance Ferguson.

He got one of the NBA’s top five players in Russell Westbrook to ignore his LA roots and resign long-term in redneck Oklahoma.

Here’s the most amazing thing he did though. He traded Serge Ibaka for Victor Oladipo, Domas Sabonis, and Ersan Ilysova. Now think about what Presti did yesterday.

What he did was parlay Oladipo and Sabonis into a long-term commitment from another LA kid named Paul George.

What some won’t remember is that Presti converted Ilyasova into Jerami Grant. My take is that Presti traded Serge Ibaka for what are now OKC’s second and fourth best players on this season’s roster.

Pretty smart for a franchise located in a state with an educational system located near the bottom of the barrel and a state government more noted for it’s sense of inbred stupidity than achievement.

Who knows…maybe Mick Cornett will be elected governor and the state will move into the current century.

Sam Presti’s legacy is intact. Billy Donovan’s…we’ll see.

This may surprise some, but I think two of the most important players on this team will need to be Alex Abrines and Terrance Ferguson. These two dudes need to make the step up to big boy ball this season. If they do…. this Thunder team could you know maybe win the Northwest Division.

That’s my goal as a fan right now. Don’t talk shit to me about the Golden State Warriors. Beat Utah. Win the Northwest…and get Brain Davis away from Michael Cage so I never have to hear that shit again.

It was a good week to be a Thunder fan and Oklahoman.

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