Good Morning It’s Basketball - Why the Thunder will roll for a while
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The Sailboat (Seascape); Gustave Courbet; 1869 The revelation in the NBA last season was the Oklahoma City Thunder. They:
After all that, in the offseason, they traded Josh Giddey (the weak point of the core) for Alex Caruso and signed Isaiah Hartenstein. They are being almost universally lauded by the NBA intelligentsia. It’s hard to find any voice skeptical of the Thunder’s continued excellence. Trust me, I tried to find defects in the gears. The Thunder are just clearly a top-3 team in the West barring a major injury. And frankly, the only single injury that might knock them out of the mix is one to top-4 player alive and MVP candidate Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. They are likely deep enough to survive injuries to anyone else. What I wonder now is how long this era of Thunder basketball can last. ... Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Good Morning It's Basketball to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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