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Building NBA Teams: Draft & Trade Strategies Revealed
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6/5/2025
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the thunder we kind of know how they built their team uh gilbert uh but it's very you know it's
00:05
similar in a way to indiana through the draft as well i really didn't realize that but indiana a
00:10
lot of their bench players and sort of their role players are built through that way the thunder
00:14
were going through a lot of losses for many years gilbert but as they were doing it it seems like
00:18
they made some tremendous trades to acquire players and picks and i know they even have more
00:23
in the future coming yeah it goes to show you just really how important homegrown talent is
00:29
you look the nine draft picks on the thunder and seven on indiana um and the thunder a lot of it
00:33
is credited to that paul george trade in 2019 they hit the reset button they didn't waste any time that
00:38
offseason after they lost damian littler hit that shot they trade paul george they get shea gillis
00:42
alexander nobody knew he was going to be an mvp but they knew he was a player worth parting ways
00:47
with paul george for you get all the draft picks some of those draft picks were used to take jay
00:51
williams and move around a little bit in the draft as well so regardless you get two all-stars out of
00:56
that trade and that is really the building block of what they have and they drafted well as well
01:00
chet holmgren was their own pick from after a very rough year on the court they get the second overall
01:05
pick and chet holmgren is definitely a rising star in the nba as well so a lot of times you see it and
01:09
maybe the spurs are paying attention draft for need and not necessarily the best guy or the guy who's
01:15
biggest on the on the draft board draft who you need who will fit in the the vision that you have for
01:19
your team over forward the same goes for the pacers with guys like miles turner the longest senior
01:23
player on their team benedict mathurin andrew nimhart was a second round draft pick who proved
01:28
to be a steal so it's really cool to see teams built that way
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