Shai's Basketball Journey with Oren Weisfeld

Down to Dunk OKC Thunder Podcast

The Athletic

Sports, Basketball, Hobbies, Leisure

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Andrew Schlecht is joined by Oren Weisfeld, authoer of The Golden Generation: How Canada became a Basketball Powerhouse to discuss Shai's basketball journey and how Canadian basketball has moved forward in recent years.

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0:00.0	This is Shred Good just Alexander and I'm down to dunk. This is Jay Will and I'm down to dunk. There we go. I'm Isaiah Hardinstein and I'm down to dump. I hope like savior of basketball is one. I want the Dorcher Chamber has been going pretty well. I'm Aaron Wiggins and I'm down to dunk. I'm Chad Holmgren and I'm down to dunk. I'm Mark Degnell and I'm down to dunk. He just does a big smile and like... I feel blessed by God to be here with down to dunk, be here with you. I'm Alice Crusoe and I'm down to dunk. I'm AJ Mitchell and I'm down to dunk. This is Isaiah Joe and I'm down to dunk. Oh geez. Are you gonna sing it good
0:38.6	enough for me to guess it or? Panhandle. Pann handle. Geez. I'm tweaking. Name two famous
0:45.5	Oklahoma. Um, myself and J-Lam Williams. Is that a crazy answer? All my friends call me Bob.
0:51.8	Where's Rachel?
0:53.2	Unique story. He lived the whole life. Plain? Plain. This is Kaysen Wallace and I'm Down to Dunk. This is Lou Dorett, and I'm Down to Dund. True Blood, Oklahoma. That's right. Pretty exciting, if you ask me. This is J-Dub, world champion J-Dub, and I'm Down to Dunk.
1:12.7	And eat burgers.
1:14.9	Welcome to Down to Dunk.
1:18.3	I'm your host, Andrew Schleck, for part of the Athletic Podcast Network.
1:20.0	Special Thursday pod.
1:25.1	Today we have Oren Weisfield, who wrote a book, and I have it in my hand right here.
1:27.0	It's called The Golden Generation.
1:27.7	It's a beautiful book. I love the cover. I love the art. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, my friend, Moia,
1:35.8	illustrated it. He painted that. So that's actually by hand. Yeah, and then superimposed it
1:40.8	somehow onto a computer. However, the artists do that. But yeah, it, uh, it turned out
1:46.3	really well. I'm really happy with it. Uh, well, Orrin, welcome to the show. I, I'm really excited to have
1:51.7	you on. This, this book is unique for, obviously, like, people that are interested in, like,
1:58.5	the Canadian national team, uh, people that are, uh, Toronto natives are probably very interested in like the Canadian national team, people that are
2:01.9	Toronto natives are probably very interested in this, but also people in Oklahoma City
2:06.3	are also very interested in this book because the best player on the Thunder is a huge
2:13.3	part of this book. And Lou Dort is on the team and the Canadian national team.
2:19.4	And so I wanted to bring you on to, one, promote your book because I think that Thunder
2:24.2	fans would really enjoy this, but also I want to talk about Shay's journey.
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