Damon Stoudamire on the Portland JailBlazers era: "We lost game 7 to eventual champions Lakers. Then we traded away Jermaine O'Neal and we didn't run it back for one more year. Both of those still bother me to this day."

Sam Presti If there is one thing I'm a little frustrated about besides not winning the final quarter of the season is I think we lost out on a lot of team development

De'Aaron Fox We lost Game 3 but that was the first time he Gregg Popovich walked into the locker room and was like Nah that's BS that's not how we play basketball and obviously he had some choice words for us

Mitch Johnson We werent ready to win an NBA championship The better team won We did a lot of good things and we didnt finish the job That's what it is

The Spurs players the last time after losing the finals

Pelinka What did those teams Detroit San Antonio and OKC have to go through to build through the draft Multiple seasons of losses and that is just not part of our infrastructure here As much as some of us might want it to be that way its not the Lakers way

14 Years Ago Today - OKCs Big 3 Played Their Final Game Together