Oklahoma City Thunder taking strong economical decisions – NBA Update
Oklahoma City Thunder have been a team on the rise in the past four years and last season they were able to put up their best performance by making it to the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history.
The real reason behind the success has been their policy to build a strong team from scratch by keeping much of the same roster, and this off-season has been no different as OKC have not made any significant changes in the off-season.
Since the end of the season they have signed undrafted rookie Hollis Thompson, former first round draft pick Hasheem Thabeet and picked Perry Jones III from the draft. This has allowed the Thunder management to cover the bases
on the bench and save up to around $4 million in cap space, which they have achieved by letting Derek Fisher and Nazr Mohammad become free agents on July 1st.
At the moment this may turn out to be a smart strategy from OKC’s management who look to keep most of roster available to them in the coming years. With Durant and Westbrook already signed on a long term contracts – saving up money
to afford the due contract extensions of James Harden and Serge Ibaka seems to be the priority number one.
"We've got to understand there's going to be some tough challenges ahead," Sam Presti, the general manager at the franchise recently said. "That's part of our process internally; understand the effect of that, not only on the team,
but on the franchise. But what I can tell you is we're going to do everything we can to make it work. We're going to put everything toward it.”
Presti went on to acknowledge the fact the by sparing up money they are looking to bring in any other player who can help them win in the long run and help the franchise a constant power house in the NBA. With most of their top
players signed on rookie contracts thus far, they did not have to face any major problems monetarily however with contract extensions for Harden and Ibaka due in October they would have to take the best decision for the organization.
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