MASSIVE Hartenstein Update… Signing IMMINENT l Thunder News

MASSIVE Hartenstein Update… Signing IMMINENT l Thunder News

we have some big news regarding the Oklahoma City Thunder and free agent Isaiah hartstein has some I want just want to say groundbreaking news and reports came out that Sam presty in the Oklahoma City Thunder flew to Eugene Oregon to sit down with hartenstein and talk about a potential contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder and this could just be the beginning stages of just hartenstein coming to the thunder in general and the first big Domino for the Thunder to you know kind of fall and us to realize what the plan is for next season and what we’re trying to accomplish with the team I know we’re trying to win the finals and you know when the finals make it there and all that and start a dynasty but trying to figure out what this team is actually going to stand for going into I don’t want to say the prime of their career but into the very early stages of their primes because right now it looks like these all these players that we have on the team are going to be great Chad dub sh is about to enter the prime of his career he was just an MVP candidate he finished in second place last year in last season in MVP voting Lou D one of the best defenders in the league Alex cruso who’s in his prime one of the best defenders in the league as well um we have a great bench with you know potentially Isaiah Joe and Aaron Wiggins coming back it looks likely that they will come back as well Cason Wallace at the moment as well it’s just a struggle finding finding who’s going to be our starting four but it looks as though we may have had and found our our backup center in isaah hartstein as Shan reports here with cap space teams Orlando focused on Wing free on Wing free agents and Utah focused on current roster decisions and Nick’s working to unhard cap sources say the OKC Thunder are in Eugene Oregon set to meet with Isaiah hartenstein now this is big news this is huge because this has only happened only you know one other time in history all right only one other time in history as you can see here all right you don’t mind I had to fly through all those tweets I have a ton in here just talking about this whole situation okay Sam presty famously flew to Minnesota to meet with Mike muscala personally to sign him as a free agent OKC is now in Oregon to personally meet with Isaiah hartenstein so if anything tells me about the past all right if anything tells me about the past what Sam presty has done before what this thunder organization has done to bring in a somewhat big name free agent for the squad they go out there and personally you know talk with them and give them the contract details instead of over the phone or having them come to Oklahoma City and prey doesn’t you know generally do this it’s just that one time we mve Scala and then you know the next few days he signed with us that’s what happened I could see the same things happening with hartenstein I’ve seen you know a bunch of people talking on the you know Thunder Twitter pages the Reddit Pages as well just all over chat rooms I’ve just been seeing a bunch of people talk about how the Thunder could potentially wait with along long if I hartstein wait until July 6 to make this deal official and wait for it you know like for everyone to kind of see it so they don’t think any tampering or anything’s going on and I don’t think anything is I don’t but there was a deleted tweet that I saw that I wasn’t able to grab a screenshot of from uh Andrew I’m not going to try to pronounce his last name you guys probably know him he covers with thunder as well that looked as though there might be a deal already in place for Isaiah hartstein and I just want to say we know hartstein he’d be a great player for us okay go ahead and look that we don’t got to look at the stats because I’ve already talked to you guys plenty about this guy we’ve already looked at his stats a good amount Isaiah hartstein is a great playmaking big and a great defender OKC has placed a premium on passing from every position obviously a premium on defense and yes he’s a great rebounder checks a lot of Thunder boxes the report reported interest makes a lot of sense and it does all right it it makes too much sense to be honest it makes too much sense for us to sign hartenstein and that is going to be the first big domino fall that can eventually make a bunch of other small dominoes fall where we can get a starting power forward for us to move dub back down to the three and half Caruso come off the bench and I feel like our bench would be solid and like I mentioned in the last video of Lori Markin even if that trade doesn’t happen and when you trade for a guy like Bobby poris or if we have enough cap to sign a guy like Jaylen Smith or sadique Bay I feel like those would be solid options at the four for us especially Jaylen Smith the more I look at him I think he would fit in well with with the Thunder at the four all right he’d be a great option for us he’s tall he’s got size he’s a you know a great three-point shooter for his position be a great fit for us and those two additions I feel like make us contenders I feel like they give us you know the best odds to make it out of the Western Conference especially after everything that’s been happening in free agency already Denver losing some key pieces of their squad in Reggie Jackson and cavius Codwell Pope that Dimensions them a little bit the Clippers everything going on with Paul George right now that is huge not only for us you know seaing Wise but also draft pickwise as we have a few of their picks in the draft all right from the previous you know sgaa trade and where we got all those picks that eventually turned into Jaylen Williams as well so there’s a lot of stuff going on in the NBA that is ultimately benefiting the Thunder ultimately that everything is benefiting us from what we have seen going on with these other Western Conference teams and a bunch of free agents signing other places and news that we’ve heard with Isaiah hartstein now to go into like little article that I found now it’s not much all right it’s not much I’m go and tell you guys that but we’re just going to go ahead and go over it we’re going to go over the whole thing here it was like two like I think two to three paragraphs long the Oklahoma City Thunder will fly out to Oregon and meet with Isaiah hardstein in a free agent meeting per the athletic uh Shams he described it as an aggressive pitch by OKC hardenstein is a perfect fit in OKC at the backup center spot he could Shore up its size and rebounding Wes hartstein had a breakout year last season with the New York Knicks he took over the starting center spot for them once Mitchell Robinson went down and was a starter for 49 out of 75 games now last part of this article here the 26-year-old average you know you guys know the stats we’re not really going to cover that a ton he was a starter in their playoff run the Thunder have 30 million in cap space to spin this off season they will likely sign isaah Joe and Aaron Wiggins to exensions this is using you know our second apron tax and early bird rights with Aaron Wiggins um the Thunder adds hartenstein it will likely be a short te term a shortterm deal the Thunder must clear up cap space in two years wants the imping extensions of Chad hren and Jaylen Williams kick in so that is huge for us to short-term deal when I’m thinking short-term deal I can see two things going on here straight up two-year deal 50 million I can see that or when I could see three-year deal all right for like 7075 million somewhere around there and that but that last and third year is a team option it is a team option to see if we have cap space so like okay we can still pick up this team option you’re carrying your load with this team or maybe there’s a trade you know potential trade out there if we pick it up trade you to that team as well so we get something in return while still being able to resign chat and dub to some longer extension some longer deals for this squad that’s something I could see happening it’s very I don’t want to say it’s very likely I could see it happening I think the more likely of the two is just a two-year deal for $50 million all right two year 50 mil over those uh two years 25 each year I could see that happening I could I could see that happening which gives us 5 million left in regular c space to use before going into our first second apron taxes and early bird rights with Aaron Wiggins and Isaiah Joe and even then we can spend all the money that we have in free agency right now and still be able to Reign Joan Wiggins Don’t Be Afraid about that do not be afraid about that and also going into what Clemente had to say with this tweet here you know sham said the Thunder will aggressively pitch to Isaiah hartstein to sign with them in their meeting it’s I I could see where you know maybe they already struck a deal shook hands tonight and like I mentioned before waiting to actually announce it waiting or maybe I’m getting a notification right now I don’t know maybe something happens overnight we’ll see I could see it waiting though until July 6 when something is made official with the squad but I think it seems very likely that he is coming to the Thunder and also another reason here Zack low called with the Thunder to do with their cap space the biggest offseason storyline the rest of the western conferences betting and hoping crossing their fingers they strike out so they’re hoping either we don’t sign hartenstein or we’re not able to get any decent names to add for our dep and rebounding WS that we had in the last season and in the playoffs I think what we’re going to do is we’re going to do our best to get hardenstein we’re going to do everything we can to get him to re you know not resign uh not have him resign with the Knicks but instead come to OKC one we have more money two I think we have a better situation going on here in OKC I think if he comes here he knows that we’re that we would be the best team in the Western Conference because there’s still some more moves that we can make whereas with the Knicks if he goes there that’s the only that’s the last move that they can make and they not they might not even be the best team in the Eastern Conference especially if Paul George Goes to the Sixers then you have to compete with the Sixers and Celtics again and the Orlando Magic are beefing up their squad they’re in talks with Klay Thompson as well they signed kcp then also the Cavaliers could also make some moves as well whereas with the Thunder now the now the nuggets are getting weaker the Clippers are getting weaker the Lakers you don’t know if they’re going to be able to do anything at all now that James Harden is going back to the Clippers Paul George is leaving and you know it seems likely that they’re going to that he’s going to sign for the Sixers Klay Thompson is in talks really with just the Mavericks and Magic right now and so it seems though that the Western Conference is slightly getting a bit weaker allowing some more teams to compete for a playoff spot while the Thunder now the western conference is going to have to run through them if you want to make it to the finals you’re going to have to beat the Thunder everyone is like that’s what’s going to happen if heart and sign signs with them I think that kind of gives us a better position and pitch for him to come to this team but it’s just it’s definitely going to be interesting what happens in the next few days maybe tonight we get some information on hartenstein maybe in the next you know few days maybe July 6 is when it’s official that he’s a member of locm City Thunder but with everything that we have heard about that we’ve seen that we know all signs point to hartenstein coming to Oklahoma City coming to downtown Bricktown and playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder all signs point to that road like like like I mentioned earlier Sam pretin and the Thunder have only flown out and talked with one player talked with a free agent one time with is Mike muscala and he signed with the team we’ve only done that once we just did that with hardenstein and it’s and like that’s all I got to say it seems very likely it seems very likely that he does come to OKC but let me down in the comments what you guys think if you know maybe he does reject us and he wants to stay in New York maybe he enjoys it there more i’ I don’t know maybe he does maybe New York somehow already has you know kind of a trade and talks getting rid of Mitchell Robinson so they can free up some more space for hartenstein I don’t know let me know know down in the comments if you guys still want hartenstein and if you guys think it is you know if like I think it’s very likely let me know how likely you guys think it is that we get hartenstein down below in the comments I’ll see you guys in the next video

Free agency has officially begun, and some major moves have already been made. One storyline though is Isaiah Hartenstein and the Oklahoma City Thunder. Bryson Akins breaks down all the information we got in day one covering Hartenstein and where he is signing.

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