{"id":483631,"date":"2024-05-29T06:15:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483631"},"modified":"2024-05-29T06:15:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:15:04","slug":"oklahoma-city-gm-on-hayward-trade-thats-my-mistake","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/oklahoma-city-gm-on-hayward-trade-thats-my-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City GM on Hayward trade: \u2018That\u2019s my mistake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City Thunder GM Sam Presti claimed he &#8220;missed&#8221; on the midseason exchange that landed Gordon Hayward, describing it as a learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>OKC had a phenomenal campaign, qualifying for the postseason as the number 1 seed in the West, but were eliminated from the Mavs in 6 matches in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round.<\/p>\n<p>The general manager tried to strengthen the young team by bringing in Hayward several months ago. However, Gorden averaged just over 5 points in almost 17 minutes per match for the franchise in 26 regular-campaign matches and did not score in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took the blame for this deal, \u201c Sam shared with the media at his end-of-campaign conference. Presti added that he is learning and that in the future, this experience will only make him a better general manager for Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>OKC acquired Hayward from the Hornets for guards Tre Mann, Vasilije Micic, and Davis Bertans, and the Thunder also sent this year\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round selection and next year\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round pick in the trade.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I missed on that. That&#39;s on me, but I&#39;m learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sam Presti discussing how while the Gordon Hayward trade was multidimensional (freed up roster spots &amp; Cap), he feels that he misread it &amp; talked about how it\u2019s a learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>Found the self-awareness cool. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rJe7f6ASAT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rJe7f6ASAT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Thunder Film Room (@ThunderFilmRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThunderFilmRoom\/status\/1795514538374406374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City Thunder GM Sam Presti claimed he &#8220;missed&#8221; on the midseason exchange that landed Gordon Hayward, describing it as a learning experience. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483632,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,16786],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17840,22965,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Presti revealed that he missed that deal and that he is the one to be blamed.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483633,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483631\/revisions\/483633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483631"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483631"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}