Oklahoma City Thunder general manager Sam Presti said during his exit interview on Monday that the franchise faces no pressure from their past success and that this new iteration of the team will pave its own success.
Presti also acknowledged, that while the Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden teams were special, the chances of replicating that draft success are slim to none. Just because that’s the case, doesn’t mean that the new era of the Thunder cannot be successful in its own way.
“Skill is recognizing when you’ve been fortunate, and I know we’ve been very fortunate. I don’t think it’s like — if you assign yourself credit for things you probably don’t deserve credit for, I could see you maybe having some pressure because you don’t really in your heart believe that you can do it again. I don’t know how that happened. I think it was a lot of things that came together.
