Sam Presti and Media Day

Well, you were at Sam Presti's press conference.

And if you were to, I guess, give the highlights or the theme of his press conference, what would your answer be to that?

Yeah, I think it was, you know, there was a lot of talk of reimagining the team.

And I don't know what that means yet.

But, you know, basically talking a lot about how the team lost Lou Dorp and Aaron Wiggins.

Isaiah Joe and how there's now 10,000 minutes basically for other players to soak up those minutes.

But there was a lot of excitement about specifically, he mentioned these three guys multiple times.

I actually took note of it.

I actually made a note like, oh, that's like the fourth time he's brought these guys up.

Specifically, A.J. Mitchell.

jared mccain and case and wallace like those three guys soaking up more minutes taking on bigger roles and of course thunder fans knew this everybody saw this coming those three guys specifically like case and wallace more than likely takes lou dort's starting spot and aj mitchell you know he's he broke out last year i think even more of a breakout is coming this year as long as he stays healthy than jared mccain we all saw what he could do but You know, reimagining the team, and I think those three guys taking on bigger roles is what really stood out to me.

And, you know, with Kaysen taking Blue Door, you know, there were some comments about Kaysen, and, you know, Presti was talking about the level of confidence that the team was showing in Kaysen by making that trade.

You know, did you get that sense from his comments?

Oh, for sure.

I mean, the fact that he came out and said, you know, this is kind of a gesture to case and to say, hey, we believe in you.

You know, basically you're taking this role.

And this is a dude who was, you know, first team all NBA or first team all defense was the starter for four years and years and years kind of led the culture and the rebuild.

all the way through a championship run and meant so much to the team on the court and in the locker room and basically to hand the baton to case in and say, you know, like we made this deal, you know, it's, it's yours now.

Uh, I do believe that that is putting a lot of trust in case.

And, and, and I agree with, with Sam and, and that, Do you think that

maybe some of the comments he made about Kaysen was expressing confidence in him, but was maybe not necessarily directly tied to the contract negotiations, but maybe Sam Presti saying, hey, you need to consider the gesture that we're making during these negotiations?

I have no idea on that part of it.

As far as the contract talks, of course, that was mentioned.

And of course, you know, Anybody who has followed the Thunder for more than 30 minutes knows that Sam Presti isn't going to get into contract details or negotiation details or anything like that.

But I just have to believe that the Thunder very much believe in Cason Wallace.