That cp3 detour rlly helped to give the jumpshot OKC needed and more important helped Shai become a better player in the long run

_Sam Presti and Danny Ainge are the fathers of fleecing_

As a thunder fan who was born in 2006 it was so cool to see KD and Russ years as a kid Loud City was crazy during those times man. Then we had some down years but last year was really good and this Loud City feels the best it’s been in years

Sam Presti is a legend. God I hated seeing the Spurs let him go, but can't keep someone that good stuck in an assistant GM role.

That was the best rebuild anyone could have hoped for!! After letting Russ and George go, it was the end of an era but man did they come back stronger than ever!!

OKC really is in good hands with all those 1st round picks

It’s crazy I’ve never seen a small market draft 3 MVP players, they all leave, then a few years later gain another MVP caliber player with the potential of a 5th MVP (Chet) depending how he turns out.

As a Seattle fan- then OKC fan it's about time we get that ring man, over 10 years in the making

I know Seattle was sad to lose the Sonics but the team is loved here in OKC. This team means alot to the people of Oklahoma.

A lot of underrated role players on OKC. Aaron Wiggins, Kenrich Williams, Isiah Joe would all get big minutes on other teams.

Hey Andy I’ve been following u for a while now (2018) and ur past videos are obviously amazing, but these longer videos make sense for you and feel less rushed… we love it, keep up the great work 💪🏽

For some reason this OKC core will form the basis of a better all-around team that wins a title unlike the KD/Westbrook/Harden years

Jalen Williams has been FANTASTIC. Love watching him with SGA

It's great seeing your team being competitive while also having a very bright future. Go OKC!

I mean give Sam Presti credit for all of this. He should be Executive of the Year someday.

Kinda reminds me of the Duncan era Spurs, you know there's a hierarchy, and their stars are humble enough to recognize whos's who

That PG trade is just, WOW!!!

From: KD-Russ-Ibaka-Green-Adams-Harden-Jackson To: SGA-Chet-JDub-Giddey-Lu Dort-Wallace-Ousmane Shout out to Thunder legends like CP3, PG13, Carmelo, Muscala, Sefolosha, Robertson, Perkins, Gallinari, Schroeder, Sabonis, Oladipo, Horford, Hill, Bazley, Brown, Diallo, Abrines Such a luxury, pleasure and spoiled we OKC fans have been for having these types of players even the current day supporting cast are deep like the depth of this roster is extremely good Isaiah Joe, Aaron Wiggins, Kenrich Williams, Jaylin, Williams, Vasilije Micic, Lindy Waters, Olivier Sarr, Keyonte Johnson would all get big minutes from other teams since they can contribute at a high level.

bro i just realized presti essentially flipped serge ibaka into sga and 5 first round picks + 2 swaps 😭 thats some 2k rebuild shit

Andy, your content is consistently so much more original and thoughtful than most NBA content creators. The work you put in shows and I am excited every time I see you’ve released a video. Keep it up man!

I know that OKC didn't win anything yet , but I watched the Pistons game today and some posessions were really ugly, so as a Thunder fan I am so happy to be able to watch a really beautiful style of basketball after being in a similar position as Detroit #ThunderUp

OKC soon in NBA Finals. Mark my words.

Jalen Williams being such a mature young player its a blessing for this team. He is as talented as they go too

Bro.... I've lived through "Thunder Version 1" and this "Version 2" of the Thunder. And I can without out a doubt say this is one of the best videos, detailing the history of this rebuild. Great video my friend

Great job

Nobody could’ve guessed how great Shai would become. He’ll be a top 10 all time PG when it’s over.

As a Thunder fan, I gotta say this is a great breakdown

Great breakdown.

I personally believe and not everybody has to agree with it, that Chris Paul has to get some credit for willingly mentoring SGA for that season he was there. And i feel that it doesn't get brought up sometimes. He's in no way responsible but every great veteran player could leave a lasting impression on a young player...good or bad.

It’s almost like if your not rushing chemistry is built ppl wouldn’t understand today they want instant gratification in everything, but the slow step by step grind is fun if you watch the development, and hamper expectations, you will enjoy the little things

It will be interesting to see how this group looks in the playoffs

Sam Prestie GENIUS of Rebuild 💯

Andy w the powerpoint transitions😂

It's gonna be super tricky how Presti will manage the picks and trades moving forward. The chemistry is so good! Will a big splashy move kill the vibes? Very tricky fine line

A big step up even from last year

Chris Paul helped SGA alot. His improvements started when he played with CP

With a SOLID Squad like that, consisting of Talented and Athletic Youngsters, OKC is the NBA's Fan Favorite, Thundering Winning Success led by SGA and Chet.

As a thunder fan this has been a VERY fun season. We could lose in the first round of the playoffs and i'd still see this season as an absolute win.

I wouldn’t call it the greatest rebuild until they win a playoff series or a ring. However, it does like they have a glorious and promising future ahead of them.

They had 3 MVP players before this and 0 rings. We’ll see.

Wel, well, well... Ok. Great video, kudos, keep up with the great work, loved it and all. BUT! The truth is at end of the day, when all is said and done, they were freaking lucky getting SGA in that deal. All else is important, but it's very hard to win in the NBA. Very hard! And you win with great players. And SGA is an unique talent that even they never thought would be THIS good. He's the key for everything.

I am a fan of OKC Thunder since 3 years old and I'm 19 years old today, I love Loud City!!

It's great ,I really do believe OKC can win a championship very soon.Congratulations to the whole organization,they are doing a good job

Literally a perfect 2k rebuild.

I thought this is a new channel lol, nice pfp andy

Kawahi didn't join until the trade happened. That's what made the haul so historic for OKC. They leveraged LAC for basically 2 players (George and Leonard)

Sam Presti is a massive genius

OKC has a great front office. Sure wish the folks in Seattle could have experienced this.

Sam Presti is an extremely capable general manager who has successfully acquired superstar players such as Kevin Durant, Russell West Brook and James Harden. The Thunder are still strong because of Sam Presti. However, it's a shame that Durant, Westbrook, and Harden weren't able to win championships with the Thunder in the 2010s.

Can u make a story about oj mayo and what happened to his career pls

I really agree that the thunder are fun to watch❤

that clippers vs warriors series with shai,sweet lou,pat beverly, vs warriors line up with KD,steph,klay,and draymond, i thought that series is 0 - 4 in favor of warriors but i was wrong that clippers team force that series to game 6 and i knew shai is the future but im upset that they trade shai for Paul george if only clippers keep shai a duo of kawhi and shai is a very balance and scary

Now all I need is my Sooners to get it together and I’ll be satisfied. 🤞🏾🤞🏾

Just to clarify: There are two players on the team with a similar name in Jalen Williams and Jaylin Williams. To avoid any confusion to the latter, I went with Jay-Lin as in I separate Jay and Lin.

They can make a whole new team with these picks. A seattle team sure sounds nice!

Chet has always reminded me of how strong Abraham Lincoln was said to have been. He can’t necessarily get big and fat but that isn’t necessarily good for a NBA player to be anyway. Sam is an incredible GM. Great talent evaluator, but it goes beyond that. Harden requested Sam draft him as I recall. When it came time for that contract and Harden wanted just a bit more, it’s not that he couldn’t get it or deserve it, it’s that it went off code. He was being loyal to himself, not the team. He wouldn’t sacrifice now to reap the reward later, when the prospect of rewards now and rewards later seemed within reach, but only individually. Being able to parse out guys like that and keep the energy high even in trying times is what his quote really boils down too. A winning culture versus a culture you can win with. That’s really profound in terms of a basketball team and family. My feelings on that trade seem to change the more I learn about, not necessarily the results they achieved, but the manner in which they achieved them. There’s a quote from Gladiator that I believe sums it up nicely. What we do in life. Echos in eternity. It’s true. I’d love to see the clippers and thunder meet in the playoffs this year. It’d be cool if KD returned to the Thunder for his final year in the league and went out with another chip and OKC’s first if they don’t just win the thing this year. Oh what time to be alive. Not many people know this but when Shai was briefly a high schooler in Hamilton, he got cut from a team and my brother in law tried telling the coach he was making a mistake. However not long after that he probably hit a growth spurt of sorts and ended up heading to the US. The fact that same kid is the player they call SGA today is not a surprise if your familiar with how much something like that can push you to great heights. A la Mike Jordan. Funny we talk about luck being in the right place at the right time. SGA was drafted by Charlotte in 2018. Traded to LA. (Kobe!) OKC didn’t have a 1st rd pick that year. Next year they draft Brandon Clarke, trade him to Memphis. Get SGA 11th pick in last years draft. So he’s drafted 3 MVPs, lost one in free agency. Traded away 2 and possibly might be coming up on having been traded one back with the spoils to really take it to another level. That’s uncanny.

Do a video on the struggles of d’angelo russell since hes back on the trading block.

After letting Russ and Paul George go, the Thunder were in a dark place. The young talent they’ve accumulated in SGA, Lu Dort, and a very talented young center in Chet Holmgren has this team looking toward a very bright future.

This is what you could achieve if you manage your assets right. I think they deserve this. Three future all stars , Russ, KD and Harden played together and got nothing but a finals appearance. Now, they have an MVP candidate and future all stars.

can't wait to see how they fuck it all up

I miss the OKC croed in playoff best crowd in postseason

I like data. So, I recently took a dataset that included every team in the league over every year available. For fun, I sorted by best records and average team age. There is a huge correlation between team age and team record - older team, better record. The exception to this trend: OKC. And they have done it with 2 different cores 10 years apart. If that isn't a sign of an incredible FO, nothing is.

i mean to be fair, look at what Sam Presti has managed to do with those first round draft picks, and they absolutely fleeced the Clippers at first but it's happened so much through the years since the big trade

It's going to be interesting to see what happens with this team over the next few years. Are the Thunder going to package players and picks up to make a trade? WIll they let these young guys walk in free agency as they come off of their rookie deals and hope that they keep getting lucky with the draft? I don't think that they are going to open up the books and keep paying their players into the second tax apron. That would mean that they lose their first round picks, and this team isn't scrambling to trade any of those picks. That tells me that this team isn't going to spend that much.

The Timberwolves literally had the best rebuild in history OKC always had great teams you can only name one good T'Wolves team

I really hope they become the new warriors..a young team with a dynamic style of play with a more than competent front office. I really don't hope they become like the durant westbook team. Both outcomes seem possible at this time.

There is a possibility if everything goes as planned that we might see the greatest dynastic run ever with a possible decade plus of domination. Now if they decide that they want to build from the draft instead of through trades and free agency we might actually see the thunder catapult to an alltime great franchise with sustained dominance

I still remember crying when Russ and PG gone, now I overjoy 😂

Are you going to do a pascal Siakam trade to Indiana video?

Sam presti also got big SABONER on draft night from magic

The coach of OKC looks like the basketball version of our Big Ange Postecoglou in my club that i've supported, Tottenham Hotspur FC.

Seattle/OKC drafted well with Durant Russ Harden Green. 3 MVPs 2 Champs and they flipped them for players like Paul George Chris Paul then flipped them for SGA and mad draft picks

Would like to see Miami Heat vs OKC in finals again.

JDub is so underrated

Westbrook and George for Shai 10 1st rounders 4 1st round swaps and 4 seconds. Sam Presti is a genius

I always believed in the process

You could have gone back further to Ibaka"s expiring contract that they traded to Orlando for Sabonis and Oladipo. Of course they were traded for PG. So basically they got SGA and all those picks for an expiring contract.

bro dont tell people to start hoping on the thunder bandwagon now that we on top with the best future !! we stand on loyalty over here that lowkey hurts 😢💀

We’ll see lol they had a fire line up for like 10 years now

CP3 played a KEY ROLE in OKC success!!

How do we move this team back to seattle

I hope they can trade Josh Giddey for some 3 & D guy because it's so odd when SGA and Giddey are playing together because both are primary good ball handlers.

Almost didn’t recognized the channel with the new logo.

lu dort a solid ass role player

Crazy how presti turned paul george into the best guard in all of basketball and jdub plus 4 1st round picks

This isn't the first time they correctly rebuilt in such a staggering and impressive fashion, they need to keep their core no matter what or this will be all for nothing

I love what the Thunders are in the process of doing, but they haven’t done anything yet, so no way they are the greatest rebuild ever

There is a difference in "This GM drafted 3 MVP-level players" vs. "This GM drafted 3 guys that literally were MVPs during a ~5 year span" Presti is not perfect. But given that he is operating from Oklahoma, is ~35Y old and mostly under-the-cap budget - he could get a statue. Some fun fact: Sam Presti managed to get into the game of pulling Carmelo from NYC to Oklahoma :-D

Another issue with having so much talent is that they’re gonna want to get paid eventually. Even with that issue, the Thunder are set up to dominate the rest of this decade.

If they do this right okc is setup to be dominant in 3-5

No title yet so hold your horses. We still dont know if Chet will play as second fiddle for years to come. For all we know this team might explode in three years time. Kudos to Sam Presti tho. Dude bounced back hard after that harden fumble. Im excited for this team. But I don’t want to expect.

All these good drafts but still zero ring so I dont know where all the praise is coming from.

I can see them making it to the WCF if the cards play right.

None of this matters if they don’t win a championship. He’s been the GM for 17 years and not a single title??

Correction: Kawhi is not yet on the Clippers when they made the PG trade. Kawhi's prerequisite to sign with the Clippers is if they get PG13. That's why LAC is willing to trade all those picks, it's like trading to get both PG and Kawhi.

@andyhoops I won't allow you to do that to my celtics cmon really? 5 ecf appearances plus 1 finals trip what has the thunder done besides hit on draft picks? we been in wars

I'm glad for Presti. IMO, the only thing they needed to win back in the early 10's was more time playing together and a better role for Russ. Until this day i dont understand why they let Russ became a pg, Harden was the one who needed to be the starting pg (he was already a good passer and have a better basketball IQ than Russ since day one). Russ eventually became a good passer and pg, but i truly believe he had the chance to become a competent 3&D sg in less time than that. At least todays OKC the young fellas know their role, and they work as a unit, that's something you can't teach easily.

All of this for paul george is hilarious to look back😂

9:47 “My whole life is consistent.” - Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

While the Warriors revolutionized small ball lineups, the Thunder revolutionized skill ball lineups.