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It is his fault that team only saw 1 WCF and won nothing,that led to Durant leaving...they have been a fringe playoff team and they will now be a 25 win team for the next 3-4 years with alot of middle of the pack 1st rounders but nikkas will congratulate him if he wins 33 games after breaking up his own team....Like i been said hes good but this genius label is non sense....

We can't talk about these multiple MVPs on the squad and then put it on the GM when the team doesn't get over the hump...especially, once again, after being up 3-1. Being a playoff team after losing a player of Durant's caliber for nothing in the West is no small task. NO wasn't consistently making the playoffs and they had AD. I'm not getting into the labeling. Call him what you want. All I know is dude has done a great job and that the Thunder are in a better situation going forward than the overwhelming majority of the league.
 

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I really forget most nikkas DO NOT WATCH ACTUAL BASKETBALL GAMES.

Phoenix was making the playoffs without Chris Paul this year - they would have made it last year if Ayton didn't get suspended for 25 games. Legit don't think some of you have seen Booker or Ayton play basketball before.
 

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A banner was realistic because Masai inherited some good talent and capitalized on it. I’m not gonna call Presti a genius but he has the kind of resources needed to even dream about winning a title down the road. He can’t control market size but he can control how he can use his ammo.

He inherited a 30 win team and he did it with no lottery picks from 2014-2019.Mind you i think Masai is overrated as well and im not part of that cult but i think of where he started in 2013 and where Presti was at that time and its wild that Presti today is being referred to as the genius....
 

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Only thing I disagree with you on is the Harden trade. That was WOAT level. I had Harden rated is high as the #3 score potential in league history before he went to Houston. Presti had to know it too. Ownership had to be convinced it would be a historical mistake.
Ownership wasn’t trying to pay that man they tried to bring him back just couldn’t agree on a contract it is what it is. Presti had to trade him.

Them winning with Harden isn’t guaranteed anyway dude has been a massive choker his entire career and he wouldn’t be the James we know now, 3 high usage players. We just don’t know.
 

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We can't talk about these multiple MVPs on the squad and then put it on the GM when the team doesn't get over the hump...especially, once again, after being up 3-1. Being a playoff team after losing a player of Durant's caliber for nothing in the West is no small task. NO wasn't consistently making the playoffs and they had AD. I'm not getting into the labeling. Call him what you want. All I know is dude has done a great job and that the Thunder are in a better situation going forward than the overwhelming majority of the league.


No they arent they just have alot of picks,they went from a 2nd round playoff team to a lottery team with "hope"

If i was OKC fan id mad as fukk :yeshrug:
 

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Did someone explain how Presti was supposed to keep Harden if ownership didn't want pay him?

They traded the wrong guy. They should've traded Westbrook instead of Harden(and I was dead wrong, at the time I thought they should've kept Russ).

I think if Harden is there, Durant stays and they win a chip.
 

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Presti has not won a title and lost 3 MVP winners all within a few years...He is wildly overrated,hes a draft pick accumulator who sells hope to keep his job..While his team rarely does anything newsworthy....Nikkas need to learn to think for themselves.

All Presti does year after year is set the bar so low that he exceeds it so nikkas think hes brilliant...
Might be one of the dumbest post iv'e ever read on here :mjlol:


His Job is to acquire talent NOT be on the court playing games ... do you really in your brain think that Rob Pelinka is a better executive than him because he won a ring after LeBron decided on his own that LA would be his next destination ... Presti is easily top 5 in the NBA on his drafting ability alone
 

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Losing 3 MVPs in a span of 5 years with no titles is a stain on his record.The playoff berths are meaningless.Accumulating assets isnt brilliance,its turning them into stars or trading them for stars that lead to contending and ulttimately a title that is brilliance...Nikkas love to put the cart before the horse when it comes to Ainge and Presti...

Hes a good GM but hes not a genius.
Harden wasn't no damn "MVP" when he was traded nikka ..he was coming off the bench ..the fukk are you talking about :mjlol:
 

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They broke up the Valley Boyz :mjcry:

Guess the Suns marketing department going to have to make some changes



And at some point, those picks have to become great players
 

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