The Alex Abrines signing was announced Monday. The Thunder is bringing over the 22-year-old Spanish sharpshooter.
We don't know what kind of ballplayer Abrines will be. Heck, we don't even know how to pronounce his name. Been calling him A-breen-us. But Sam Presti calls him A-breen-ish.
I don't know what Abrines will do in Thunder blue. Will he be Toni Kukoc, who came over to the Bulls at age 24 in the wake of Michael Jordan's baseball exit and eventually became an excellent sidekick to Jordan and Scottie Pippen? Or will Abrines be Nikoloz Tskitishvili? If you ask who (fifth overall in the 2002 draft; averaged 2.