Kevin Durant left the Oklahoma City Thunder on the Fourth of July, Russell Westbrook posted a picture of a plate of cupcakes the next day, and the future of the Oklahoma City Thunder hung in the balance. Sam Presti had drafted three future NBA MVPs to start his tenure in OKC, and now two of them were gone. The Thunder had made one NBA Finals appearance and four conference finals appearances with the best young core in basketball, but they couldn’t breakthrough. With Durant unfathomably now wearing a Golden State Warriors jersey, it felt unlikely they ever would.
The Thunder gave the ball to Russell Westbrook the next year,
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