Stephen A. Smith DESTROYS OKC's Sam Presti [White Privilege]

[who_better_than_me]

It's a business. From an owner's perspective, as long as they put a product on the floor that makes money, they are good. A championship is just a bonus.

That's what fans don't seem to get. Yall really over here talking about championships? It's about money.

OKC's mistake was signing Ibaka first. Once he signed, I knew Harden was done, despite the fact that he was significantly better.

Harden might’ve been “significantly better” but during that lockout season the impact on the floor wasn’t significantly in Harden favor. Ibaka was defensive difference maker out there in the floor who affected the game heavily in once favor. Don’t matter who got paid first. Should’ve tried to keep them both

 

[Kang Deezy]

Every team would love to have Sam Presti as their GM.

He’s the one who built that team from the ground up through his own drafting/scouting, and it wasn’t his fault that ownership was too cheap to pay for his core.

With that said, OKC deserves all the bad luck they get for stealing that team from Seattle and taking it to that hillbilly shythole.

Fail to win a title with Harden/Durant/Westbrook brehs

Fail to make it back to the Finals with Durant/Westbrook/Ibaka brehs

Lose in the first round with Westbrook/PG/Melo brehs

Pay Kendrick Perkins $8 million a year but refuse to max out Harden brehs

I’d take ainge over him

People forget thunder also had Jeff green

 

[Kings County]

Break up a trio of 3 future MVPs + Serge Ibaka over a little more than a million a year brehs

Have a franchise in OKC brehs

harden wouldnt have been mvp if he never got traded
he needed to have his own team to improve

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Revisionist History... a lot of people thought OKC fleeched HOU with that Harden trade. It was like the deal they made with the Pacers last summer, very few thought Indy won that deal

Yup. Idiots thought the Rockets lost by not keeping Chandler parsons.

People don't actually watch sports, they watch CNN.

People are dumb as fukk.

 

[Da King]

The fall off

 

[tremonthustler1]

harden wouldnt have been mvp if he never got traded
he needed to have his own team to improve

Nah. Let the Coli believe them three and Ibaka were gonna average 105 points just those 4 and they were rattle off title after title.

 

[Dilltastic VolWon(derful)]

Revisionist History... a lot of people thought OKC fleeched HOU with that Harden trade. It was like the deal they made with the Pacers last summer, very few thought Indy won that deal

Nobody thought “fleeced” people did think they got fair value for him though. (Clearly they didn’t).
The Indiana deal you are right, people did think they won that trade

 

[who_better_than_me]

I’d take ainge over him

People forget thunder also had Jeff green

Presti outsmarted Ainge in the Green/Perkins deal. That deal was originally agreed to be Harden/Krstic for Perkins/Nate Robinson but Presti sweet talked him into Green instead.

 

[Kang Deezy]

Presti outsmarted Ainge in the Green/Perkins deal. That deal was originally agreed to be Harden/Krstic for Perkins/Nate Robinson but Presti sweet talked him into Green instead.

Ainge has won a championship as a GM.

 

[kuts]

I agree the talent is there, but this post is also shytting on Westbrook unfairly.

 

[surv2syn]

Presti has been great with drafting. No GM is perfect, they have their ups and downs. They have their strengths and weaknesses. Would not compare him to Ainge. Boston a much more attractive destination for FA's. The way things unfolded was just bad. I thought the Indy trade was good for both parties. Presti has been a genius with drafting.

When Reggie Jackson was coming out, I had watched him that entire year in the ACC. I was on another forum and we were talking about darkhorses in the draft and I said Reggie Jackson was going to be a steal. People laughed. Then when he didnt work out for teams because OKC had gave him a guarantee, people were saying why draft him to be a backup. I said Jackson was going to be starter quality and they needed insurance for Russ. That turned out to be another smart move by Presti who made an early guarantee to Jackson.