Steven Adams, the luscious-maned New Zealander for the Oklahoma City Thunder is not sweating the trade deadline despite the fact that his name has been heavily involved in tasty trade talks.
For his part, the laid-back Kiwi is waiting until a “Woj bomb” hits courtesy of Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN:
“As we all know,” Adams said in a story in The Oklahoman by Joe Mussatto, “what Woj says is prophecy.”
Adams has been with the Thunder for the entirety of his seven-year NBA career, and the hulking center has been a hugely important piece of the Thunder’s identity both on the court and off. Adams has long been a fan favorite, and his high-profile friendships with his former teammates Enes Kanter and Nick Collison always brought a laugh.
The 26-year-old center has been heavily featured in trade rumors this season, especially considering his 4-year/$100 million extension comes off the books next offseason.
Adams’s numbers have never truly been eye-popping, but he is logging a career-high in defensive box plus/minus with a 3.3, which ranks 13th overall in the NBA. The Thunder have been a fairly surprising team so far this season as most pundits expected the Thunder to be retooling around Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Darius Bazley, Luguentz Dort and others, but the team has played extremely well around its three-guard lineup of SGA, Dennis Schröder and Chris Paul – the latter of whom have been featured in multiple trade rumors of their own.
As it stands, the Thunder are firmly ensconced in the 7 seed in the West, and Adams continues to wait for that fateful Woj “prophecy.”
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