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“Is This Tanking?” And Other FAQs for a Rebuild

Rylan Stiles hosts the Locked on Thunder podcast, and just launched a new project — Bricktown Buckets.

The Oklahoma City Thunder are embarking on a new but familiar journey. For the first time in Oklahoma City, the Thunder organization has updated its roster in such a way that has decreased its immediate ability to compete. Some call this “tanking”, some call it “rebuilding”; VP & GM Sam Presti has called it multiple names, but “shifting the odds” is one of his more descriptive phrases regarding this era of Thunder basketball.