Fresh off of winning the NBA Championship, the Oklahoma City Thunder have an interesting dilemma. With a team obviously in win-now mode, they find themselves with three picks in Wednesday’s NBA Draft and not a lot of roster spots nor patience to develop those picks.
The logical solution is to combine those picks into a single premium pick. According to ESPN’s Jonathan Givony, that appears to be exactly what the Thunder are working on. Givony said the following on ESPN’s SportCenter:
I keep hearing rumblings that the Thunder are trying to move up.