Is OKCs Owner the Worst in NBA history.

[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

lol.. true

Their reasoning was money and Spurs having Tim Duncan. I get it.

OKC didnt have the foresight of Golden St.. nobody did really..

man that shyt with gsw was luck....curry was looking like a bust with those bad ankles....who knew he'd get healthy and all this would happen

in hindsight it looks like a sure thing...but it wasn't...not even close

 

[duckbutta]

Them not keeping Harden for AT LEAST is one of the single dumbest things in basketball and by virtue of the roster moves they made after that makes no sense logically or really even financially...

 

[L. Deezy]

man that shyt with gsw was luck....curry was looking like a bust with those bad ankles....who knew he'd get healthy and all this would happen

in hindsight it looks like a sure thing...but it wasn't...not even close

Funny cuz I typed that and erased it..lol.

I revised it to mean more to the fact that adding Durant and basically not worrying about luxury tax like OKC was

 

[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

Funny cuz I typed that and erased it..lol.

I revised it to mean more to the fact that adding Durant and basically not worrying about luxury tax like OKC was

ironically they end up with the most expensive roaster in the nba.... and paying tons of luxury taxes anyway

 

[King Jove]

Worst thing is they still have one of the highest payrolls in the league and are in the luxury tax.

 

[Osmosis]

Not even close


And it’s amazing how nobody wants to believe that the Thunder with all those guys still would have not won a title.

They went to the finals with their best player in his age 23 season.. they were definitely going to compete for multiple titles as long as that team is kept together.

 

[TDUBB]

Why keep Harden? He’s a scam artist remember?

 

[tremonthustler1]

They went to the finals with their best player in his age 23 season.. they were definitely going to compete for multiple titles as long as that team is kept together.

There’s “compete” which up til now they have and win a title which I don’t think they were ever gonna get.

 

[BornStar]

Not at all. Orlando lost Shaq. Cavs lost Lebron. So many franchises ended up making bad decisions or losing free agents. It happens.

Shaq was one human being.
LeBron is one individual.

If Shaq , Kobe and LeBron were on the same team you could make that case.

We are talking 3 MVPs with a 2 time MVP pending.

How do you separate 3 most valuable players (put emphasis on 3 Most Valuable Players) and a defensive superstar? That's hard to do if you try.

 

[Osmosis]

There’s “compete” which up til now they have and win a title which I don’t think they were ever gonna get.

I don’t see how they don’t win a title. They made the finals with their three best players four or five years away from their prime.

By 2014 they would likely be the consensus best team in the league. The Heat’s window had closed due to injury/age related regression from Wade and Bosh and the Spurs roster that made it to the finals in 2013 and 2014 was almost identical to the team OKC beat in the 2012 WCF. Then when the time Warriors and Cavs emerge the Thunder would still have the overwhelming talent advantage. The team machination would be something along the lines of: three superstar caliber players, a DPOY caliber player, and ring chasing veterans on cheap deals.

 

[Scientific]

Kind of hard to imagine another team essentially losing out on the odds. 1/3 odds to get it right.

I remember when they traded Harden. I couldnt belive the Rockets gave up peanuts for an emerging star. I knew hed be a legit All-Star. Westbrook's game was being shyted on harder back then after the Finals. Marbury, Francis, Arenas were all the ones he was being compared to. Braun vs brains in so little words.

 

[x-factor7]

He's up there. OKC drafted 3 MVPs in 3 back-to-back drafts and 2 of them are gone. It's basically what Hinkie was trying to accomplish with Philly with the Process.

They should've done everything in their power to keep that trio together. They made the finals in 2012 ahead of schedule and were only gonna get better.

 

[Paper Boi]

come on brehs...

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

come on brehs...

Dude literally said in public he doesn’t care if he fields a losing team as long as he turns a profit, pretty sure he kept the scouting department on a skeleton crew, fired an assistant coach to avoid paying his cancer treatments, hired coaches solely because other teams would be on the hook for their money, would pocket the revenue sharing money instead of trying to compete even though he was in Los Angeles, and then to top it all off, there’s all the racist shyt we knew about him before the tape came out. He was arguably the worst owner ever even before we got into any of that. Ted Stepien is way up the list too. How the fukk are you so bad as it relates to management that the league put rules in place to stop owners from giving away as many draft picks as you did?

 

[Dilltastic VolWon(derful)]

They had Reggie Jackson too

Deadass are you Reggie Jackson? Because nobody on this forum would even think to mention dude, much less in this thread