The Oklahoma City Thunder enter the 2019-20 preseason with 20 players on their roster, be they on max deals or unguaranteed camp contracts. Only one of those players seems like a true lock to still be on the roster 2 years from now: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
SGA is fresh off an impressive rookie season where he started (despite being coached by a notorious hardass in Doc Rivers) on a playoff team that put up a surprising fight against the (at the time) healthy Golden State Warriors in the first round of the playoffs. And yet, despite thriving under the big lights, the Thunder’s young guard is still a bit of a blank slate.