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Westbrook in Serious Contract Negotiations w/ OKC

akirac73 said:
OKC without Durant missed the playoffs two seasons ago, I think they'll be battling till the end for the 8th seed.
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They won 45 games that season. Most years that would put a team comfortably in the playoffs. Westbrook also missed 15 games that year. And their team that season beyond Durant and Westbrook was not anywhere as good as the team they have now. I expect them to make the playoffs easily and still be a threat in the division.
 
Westbrook agreed to an extension. He is in OKC for 2 more years with a player option on his 3rd year.
 
DownUnder said:
can't see OKC battling for anything more than the 7th or 8th seed tops
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Exactly. If that pick is conveyed in 2018 and lower than 20, it's a HUGE win for Utah. Don't get me wrong. . . I hated giving up Kanter for essentially peanuts, but he was out the door in RFA in the offseason and the Thunder were positioned to be either a perennial contender or blow it up and be out of the lottery. Durant and Westbrook basically provided Utah with the best possible chance of actually getting something decent out of it.
 
SCS said:
They won 45 games that season. Most years that would put a team comfortably in the playoffs. Westbrook also missed 15 games that year. And their team that season beyond Durant and Westbrook was not anywhere as good as the team they have now. I expect them to make the playoffs easily and still be a threat in the division.
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Do not try explaining things to a lost cause. It is aready lost.
 
We will see what happens but I think what this does is allows them to see what the team looks like with just Westbrook. If it doesn't look promising they can trade him next year and rebuild... Hopefully they are good enough that they gamble on keeping him. The new cba may help them retain him. I say it's 50/50 whether he's on the team for 2018 and beyond.
 
The best part is that they are pretty much locked into their current roster. Some of their fans think that they can just swap Kanter for cap relief or decent assets. Can you imagine THAT bidding war?
 
framer said:
The best part is that they are pretty much locked into their current roster. Some of their fans think that they can just swap Kanter for cap relief or decent assets. Can you imagine THAT bidding war?
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Yes like Carla BooSir. Worthless asset gets bought out an released on the waver wire.
 
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