Welcome to Down to Dunk. I'm your host Andrew Schlacks. We're part of the Athletic

Podcast Network. With me today is my good friend Alex. Here's Alex. What's up? Good morning.

Good morning. It's a all-star break. No basketball. It's been been kind of nice to have a

little break. But the thunder get back in action tomorrow night against the Dallas Mavericks who are on

the second nut of a back-to-back. Yeah. That's rough for them. I know right out the gate they get a back-to-back

San Antonio O.K.C. for them. So quite the battle. Let's go ahead and just take a look at the

standings. We can go to our friends tankathon.com. I'm going to share my screen. Maybe we can do a

a little lottery sim here. Oh, pull the lever. Let's see what we get. So here the thunder are currently

sitting at nine type 8 with the Pelicans, which is just kind of an unbelievable thought.

At the same record as that roster. But maybe Stan Van's past his prime. Maybe he doesn't

deserve to be in the league, Alex. Wow. You jumped there quickly. I've been seeing a lot of people

posting. I forget what outlet it is, but they were doing some type of mock trade. And they traded

away brain and ingramas. They're very first trade in like this league-wide thing, which just

seems so crazy to me. It's a big jump. That's a big jump. He's had like 50 games with his eye on

and people are like, God, he got to get him out of here. Get him out.

I'd take him. Yeah, I'd take B.I. Easily. So anyways, the thunder would have, if things just went

chalk, the thunder would have pick nine and pick 17 in the draft, which feels sickening to me.

I've taken some time to watch some more of the prospects in the draft, and it's just becoming

increasingly clear that you want to top five pick. Still not impossible, but the thunder

got some work to do. Yeah. And last night, in particular, because there were some tweet, two tweets,

one from San Vassini and one from Mike Schmitz, both basically just gushing about the top five.

And both basically saying, this is one of the best top fives we've seen in the past decade.

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