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Roberson has kept confidence in long-awaited return to court

If there was any Thunder player who shouldn’t have been confident, it was Andre Roberson.

Instead, Roberson had the power quote of Thunder media day, showing a surprising amount of bravado for a guy who hasn’t played in the NBA in 18 months. Roberson was asked what he missed most since rupturing the patellar tendon in his left knee and battling through a year and a half of rehab.

"Locking people up," Roberson said without hesitation about his defense.

Then the 27-year-old sounded like a man who was sick of seeing the likes of Damian Lillard, Andrew Wiggins and even his new teammate Danilo Gallinari torch the Thunder.