Could the Oklahoma City Thunder Become the NBA's Next Dynasty?

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00:00The Oklahoma City Thunder are the youngest team on average age in the NBA.

00:05You look at their starting five.

00:06The MVP, Shea Gilgis-Alexander, 26.

00:09Lou Dort, also 26.

00:11Jalen Williams, 24.

00:13Chet Holmgren, 23 in his second fully healthy year in the NBA.

00:18And even the offseason acquisition of the big man, Isaiah Hartenstein,

00:22he's only 27 years old.

00:25With that on paper, and Oklahoma City expected to win this NBA championship,

00:30again, a minus 700 favorite to do exactly that,

00:33are we seeing the start of a special and significant run for this Thunder franchise?

00:39So buy or sell to you, Donnie Wright's side.

00:41The Oklahoma City Thunder Corps will win three-plus NBA championship.

00:47I'm selling that.

00:48I'm selling that, too, because there is a salary cap.

00:50Not necessarily a cap, but how much you want to spend for a small market team.

00:53But also, how hard is it to win championships?

00:56Look at the Boston Celtics and their payroll and the amount of talent they have.

01:00They must have five or six championships with Jason Tatum.

01:02They got one.

01:03And that might be all the Celtics get, which is incredible,

01:06because you can never plan for the future of you being healthy

01:09and everybody playing the exact same way.

01:11It's hard to go through an entire season.

01:13Understand this when we talk about the NFL.

01:15It's like, boy, one team plays in week one,

01:17one team goes all the way to the Super Bowl.

01:19Now that offseason is even shorter at that point to try to get ready for next year.

01:23Then you have the target on your back.

01:24Other teams are going to retool.

01:26So you have to be not only as good, but probably even better just to get back

01:29to the NBA Finals in the next year.

01:32You might have changed my opinion if it said, okay,

01:34have a two-plus NBA championships with the score,

01:37because we're counting one for this year,

01:39which means maybe we can steal another one in the next three to four years,

01:42which would be amazing to have two championships within five years in the NBA.

01:46But for me, I'm going to have to sell that,

01:48because three-plus championships is hard enough for any group,

01:51non-salary cap.

01:53Everybody's young.

01:53I don't care.

01:54It's almost impossible to do in this day and age

01:57without maybe the best player of all time.

01:58Let's talk about maybe a Michael Jordan back in the 90s.

02:01Did it twice, three and three, having a year off there with retirement here.

02:05So for me, it's a great basketball team.

02:07They might get two, but I got to sell three.

02:09That's a lot.

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