Joel Lorenzi

And Paul George.

And Paul George traded those guys for...

you know, what, what was then a record, it still is a record amount of picks.

And, um, but I imagine people were scratching their head at like, huh?

Like, you know, but, but nobody, nobody remembers you.

We, we talk less about this stuff than we do their shot at defending a title.

And I think people need to understand Michael needs to understand that this thing has to get ugly before you really build something sustainable.

He's talking about sustainability.

There's nothing sustainable.

You're not building toward anything sustainable when you're picking from the middle and you're making these sort of micro transactions.

First of all, they have not even showed historically that they've been

good on the margins like the Thunder are getting starter level guys from two-way contracts and GD Lou Dort who they're probably in a position to trade this summer and I know I'm on a rant here they're probably in position to trade Lou Dort this summer because he's like almost no longer fits

where they're headed because they're so good and so deep and so talented and they got redundancy in talented players.

Lou Dort started as a culture center for them and a two-way guy, undrafted.

A.J.

Mitchell could start for this team and has made several starts and will be wildly important to defending their title.

They drafted him 38th.

And he started on a two-way.

The Thunder, I know it is difficult to compare the Thunder to anyone, let alone the Bulls.

But the Bulls have to start somewhere, right?