blank964
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Whew! What a relief. I thought step 1 was going to be "relocate to a new city".
No step one is have an owner who is one of David Stern's fuck buddies. Seriously I'm getting tired of people labeling OKC as a small market team in the same sense of a Memphis, Detroit, or Indiana. Not to say that OKC is going to attract big name free-agents or get ridiculously one-sided trades, but it just feels like they're going to be a consistently good team over the next few years if nothing more just so the league can say "small market teams can win too" as if it's just a rotation of teams that will always be good and those who will always be terrible.
While we can't just simply copy OKC's model, I hope we do improve through the draft and get better at evaluating talent in the draft. During the Lebron-era I think the organization was always under pressure to prove they were serious about winning a championship (instead of banking on getting free-agents for multiple seasons like the Knicks or Heat) and that's part of the reason they didn't seem to develop a lot of talent from the draft especially by the time Ferry got there. Some of the blame has to go on the coaching staff as well, but I just hope they can get better at developing talent.