The league allowed them to do a bunch of non competitive moves to get to that point. What’s to stop them from doing the same with SGA, Bazley, etc and be on an infinite loop. It really makes for a worse league when all 30 teams not trying to win
I said the same thing about Houston. At this point the NBA draft is a crap shoot. Even if you get the number one pick, there are too many unknowns. OKC had bad contracts that they were able to get rid of and I commend them for that. I guess the logic with these teams is going 38 - 44 is no different than going 15 - 67. At least with the latter, you can get a high draft pick and still have a lot of cap space.
but the problem with OKC is that they will never attract big name free agents. And if they think they will draft another KD, Westbrook and Harden is consecutive drafts, that will never happen again.