Oklahoma City Thunder
I’m sitting here frustrated with the Oklahoma City Thunder. For anyone who watches the Thunder, one thing screams through the television nightly: their apparent need for another big to help their struggling rebounding. Chet Holmgren is a good player but can’t man the paint alone. This Thunder team is excellent, and they have enough draft capital to throw at a team like the Utah Jazz to make them trade Lauri Markkanen, who would have catapulted the Thunder into actual contender status. If not Markkanen, they could have acquired any available big man they wanted. Sam Presti has built an incredible team that will have the Thunder in contention for the next decade, but at what point do they move off their war chest of draft capital to win? It should have been yesterday, and now, I can’t see the Thunder beating the Nuggets, Suns, or Clippers in seven games. It was a wasted opportunity.