Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey understood he’d get requested concerning the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder, as he geared as much as play his former staff. Giddey additionally provided nothing however reward for the Thunder group.
“If you play your former staff, you clearly circle it in your calendar. However you’ll by no means, ever hear me say a foul phrase about that group. High to backside, unbelievable individuals. I’m trying ahead to seeing all of them. I like that group,” Giddey stated.
Oklahoma Metropolis middle Chet Holmgren stated he and the remainder of the Thunder had been trying ahead to seeing their former teammate.
“I believe you will get wrapped up within the enterprise of what that is,” Holmgren stated, “as a result of it’s a enterprise, and it’s a particularly severe enterprise. However you may’t lose sight of the relationships that you simply construct with guys alongside the way in which. I don’t suppose anyone’s ever performed with the identical 15, 17 individuals their total profession. That’s how the league works. Individuals and groups need to do what’s greatest for them enterprise smart. And you’ll’t maintain that in opposition to anyone. If you get to go on the market and hoop in opposition to guys that and you actually like, you take pleasure in all of it the identical.”