OKC Thunder: Matt’s Monday Musings, Edition One

For the first of my Monday Musings I am revisiting the OKC Thunder Reggie Jackson trade to the Pistons.

The fast-approaching trade deadline marks two years from the trade that sent OKC Thunder guard Reggie Jackson to the Detroit Pistons. I wanted to revisit this trade, it’s background and what future effects it has had on the OKC Thunder franchise.

For those who have forgotten the particulars of the trade, it was a three team trade involving the Thunder, Pistons and the Utah Jazz.

To simplify the trade, this is the net result;

Detroit received Reggie Jackson, only giving up Kyle Singler and D.J. Augustin.

Utah received Kendrick Perkins, Grant Jerrett, Tibor Pleiss and Oklahoma City’s protected first round pick in 2017. They had to give up Enes Kanter and Steve Novak.

Oklahoma City received Enes Kanter, Steve Novak, Singler and D.J Augustin. They had to give up Perkins, Jackson, Pleiss, Jarrett and the protected pick.

On the surface, Utah appeared to lose this trade in a major way. However, history tells us they started winning after this trade so they might not think so.