Forgive me for this mini book, but I have been wanting to express this opinion for some time. Most of us want to fault the Big 2 or 3 depending if Ibaka shows up which is not a sure thing anymore, for falling short this and past years, but the reality is that the Thunder ARE NOT built to win a championship as currently constructed. What truly plagues the Thunder is their inability to draw quality free agents and to keep its developing stars. If this trend continues this franchise (teams) will be good, never great. The reasons for this failure are IMO fairly obvious, but for fear of being castigated, I will pass on commenting any further on that aspect. Oh, the franchise will be moderately sucessful through trades and drafts, but, may fall short on Championships. A winning BB team, IMO has to have a strong bench (2d unit) . OKC does not have a strong bench, hence Donovan going with essentially 7 players. OKC has on its roster players who contribute little to winning BB games. Singler, Mohammad, Heists, Collison, Mc Gary, Foye and a couple who are marginal Waiters, Morrow. That's 7-8 players out of 15.

Conversely look at GSW bench players that contributed big to last years and this years wins, Barbosa, Barnes, Igudola, Livingston, Speights, Varejao. Ok look at Cleveland. Dellavedova, Frye, Jefferson, Jones, Kaun Shumpert, Williams, Jones et al

If KD leaves, I believe it will be almost entirely because he has seen the organizations inablity to attract Quality Free Agents to OKC to help him win here. Again, we can debate the reasons for this inability but I do not think we can dispute the validity of that comment.