A friend called Mike Muscala to give him the news. The Thunder, the team Muscala had reached a free agent agreement with less than a week earlier, had agreed to trade Paul George to the Clippers.
“Then I went online and saw it,” he told The Oklahoman. “Yeah, it was pretty crazy. Unexpected, but you know, that's the NBA.”
The well-documented unraveling of last year’s roster came next as July rolled on. Jerami Grant to Denver. Russell Westbrook to Houston. Now, in the first days of training camp, the Thunder has a mix of players from its last era and players brought in during the Thunder's transition to a new one.