By THE PICKER Sports Columnist on Aug 10, 2012, at 3:36 PM Updated on 8/10 at 3:36 PM
THE PICKER
Here's what all the experts are saying about the Thunder, past and future:
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Blah, blah.
Blah.
Blah, ...
Who gave Perkins all that money and said he was the real deal?
Who drafted the KU center who couldn't play?
Who ...
OU football coach Bob Stoops had this scoop during his Tulsa campaign stop: The bottom of the SEC stinks.
What campaign ...
It now goes something like this.
1. Miami.
2. Lakers.
3. Thunder.
Here is the way most if not every single one of the NBA champs made it to the top: Trades.
Great trades.
You can only get so good or lucky, or both, with draft picks. Something is always missing.
Look at the Bulls, Boston, the Lakers, Miami, they all took the final step to the top with blockbuster trades.
Forget long-term we're great talk, it's bunk. Injuries happen. Differences of opinion happen.
In the NBA, the future is always now.
After what the Lakers did to get Howard, the Thunder is worse off than when the season ended. The Thunder is in trouble inside.
Despite homer talk, the Perkins trade was a near bust, particularly on offense.
The "genius" Thunder GM has drafted great, KU center excepted.
But he has not yet made the mark as the architect of a champion.
You can't sit still and count your runnerup trophies.
Everybody else is out trading.
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