When you win an NBA championship, expect several other teams to try to play Copycat. This even includes the front offices in different leagues. The Oklahoma City Thunder experienced this in the first hand after having crowned one of the biggest seasons of all time with the Larry O’Brien trophy.
The Thunder showed offices before the League that you can still build a competitor thanks to the project and development. Pulled by Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren, they mainly had local talents on their list. Although Shai Gilgeous-Alexander does not technically enter this category, he flourished in a MVP in OKC.
The rest of the rotation is filled with local talents. Lu Dort, Cason Wallace, Aaron Wiggins and Jaylin Williams. Others took advantage of their second chance. Isaiah Joe and Kenrich Williams are some names. And even when they provided external help, they were part of the movements of know-how with Isaiah Hartenstein and Alex Caruso.
The Thunder is living proof that if a managing director has enough patience to burn property and is a thinker before doing so, he can collect a stack of project assets and accelerate a reconstruction to a pretender in the title by hitting all their premium draft choices.
Dallas’ wings of the WNBA hope to imitate thunder. The GM Curt Miller recently discussed with the NBA and the journalist of the WNBA, Grant, their vendor movements while they continue to go through a reconstruction. That said, they seem that they have nailed the most important room with Paige Bueckers. She had a recruit campaign of the year compared to some of the grown -ups of all time. If we stick to the comparisons of thunder, it is easily the Gilgeous-Alexander of the Wings.
“We almost have the impression that we are playing in a stars match of the 2023 repechage class – we have five players from this class in this team," Miller said via dallashopsjournal.com. "Lots of players with a lot of track ahead of them. We take a bit of the OKC model – Build with young people and choices. »»
The Wings have made three professions while seated near the WNBA ranking. Two were long -term movements for the capital project. They exchanged Nalyssa Smith at the AS of Las Vegas for a first -round choice in 2027. They also sent Dijonai Carrington to Minnesota Lynx for a second round choice in 2027 and the old diamond choice n ° 2 in 2023.
Let’s see if the wings can survive in the line as quickly as the Thunder. If Bueckers continues to dominate in the way she has done this season, she will give Dallas a lot of track to build a competitor around her in the predictable future. It is now a question of filling the rest of the list.
This article originally appeared on OKC Thunder Wire: Dallas Wings of the WNBA hopes to model the reconstruction after OKC Thunder
