Welcome to Down to Dunk. I'm your host, Andrew Select. We're part of the Athletic Podcast Network.

It's a special podcast. This will be Sam Presti's media availability heading into the 23-24 season.

So I'd just like to put this on the podcast feed so that you guys can consume it that way.

It's easier for me to consume it that way.

So I assume that it's easier for others to do that as well.

So without further ado, here is Sam Presti in his pre-season media availability.

Just want to thank everybody for coming today.

It's always good to be back in the same room with everybody.

This is our 16th year of basketball in Oklahoma City. We're super excited about that. We don't take that for granted.

And I was thinking about, as I was getting ready to make some of these remarks, the

load, excuse me, the image that we sent out last week or something like that about the unveiling

of the logo from 15 years ago. And I really, I really sat with that for a little bit

when you think about all that's happening in those 15 years.

So many great players that have come, have gone,

followed by other great players,

all the different experiences that we had.

As a team, as an organization, as a community, it's really great thinking about all the different people that have been a part of that.

And then I thought, well, how many guys are still in the league from that point of time?

And there's like 5% of the NBA is still in the NBA from the time that that thing dropped off.

So it gives you also a better perspective on that's a long time.

There's a lot of careers that went the entire distance during that period of time.

But I also thought about like what is the through line for those 15 years?

...