The Oklahoma City Thunder are not your grandfather’s NBA franchise.

Unless you’ve got a strangely young grandfather. Otherwise, your granddad would probably frown upon Sam Presti’s unprecedented team-building strategy. Some would argue that he’s taken tanking to an entirely new extreme.

It doesn’t sit well with everyone, but Presti doesn’t seem concerned. He’s intent on stockpiling draft picks until he lands a transcendent superstar to use them to build around.

If it works, it could revolutionize the league. On the other hand, one wonders if Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will be content to stick around long enough to find out.

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With every season that passes finding the Thunder more concerned with missing the play-in tournament than making the playoffs, those questions grow louder.

It may be time to trade Gilgeous-Alexander already. His continued development threatens to compromise the strategy as the team continues to add lottery talent around him.

If the Oklahoma City Thunder agree, here are three deals that send him to the Windy City.