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Clemente Almanza

NBA Twitter reacts to Lu Dort’s new contract with the Thunder

The Oklahoma City Thunder decided to lock up Lu Dort for the foreseeable future as the team signed him onto a five-year, $87.5 million contract on Thursday.

This is quite the turnaround as the Thunder surprisingly declined Dort’s $1.9 million team option on Wednesday to make him a restricted free agent. Thunder general manager Sam Presti sounded like contract negotiations were going to wait until next summer during this past Saturday’s rookies presser.

“The only thing I can tell you is that we have an option on that agreement, and obviously it’s our plan to exercise that pending anything different,” said Presti. “So I would just plan on that happening unless something changed.”

It looks like something clearly changed from Saturday to Thursday. Let’s take a look at what NBA Twitter had to say about the deal.

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