Presti talks trades, Durant and Westbrook

THUNDER JOURNAL

Thunder general manager Sam Presti met with the media for 20 minutes before shootaround on Friday morning.

As with any Presti interview, the quotes were long-winded and a bit hard to sift through. But he hit on some important topics, including the Thunder’s recent trade and all the recent rumors surrounding Kevin Here are the highlights:

“He’s a guy that has a physicality, has pretty good size, competitive. His maturity. I think he understands the small things that go into winning. He can make plays with the ball. It gives us another person on the roster that can attack the paint, and we’ve slowly started to increase those numbers.”

“That’s what makes the business what it is. People are interested in that. It drives attention. It’s probably one of the reasons why the salary cap is gonna do what it’s gonna do over the next couple years.

NBA SCOREBOARD It’s the industry that we’ve chosen. Again, I think we’d have to cut him up into 29 pieces to get him to play every place he’s supposed to be going.”

“I talk to him and I talk to Russell because those guys are the founding fathers of the organization and have cultivated the identity people have for the Thunder…They are a huge part of what we’re doing. So of course I’m talking to them. I want to know what they think because we wouldn’t be in this position without them.”

FOYE DETAILS HOW HE LEARNED ABOUT TRADE

Randy Foye

wasn’t expecting to be shipped on Thursday afternoon.

But as he went up the steps in the Nuggets practice facility, he got a tap on the shoulder and that “we need to talk” look.

“So right there, I knew something was getting ready to happen,” Foye said.

He was told what Denver had in the works. That a trade to Oklahoma City was in advanced discussions, but at that point only “50 percent done.”

He couldn’t practice though. So he just sat and watched and waited. Until he finally got an update. From his phone.

“Once it came up on my NBA app, I knew it was done,” Foye said.

It took a bit for the news to settle, but once it did, Foye realized he was going from out of the playoff race directly into a championship hunt.

“I’m like, man, I’m about to be on a team that can win it all or has the goals to win it all,” Foye said. “I just sat there for a minute and let it sink in.”

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