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[✮𝓐𝓷𝓭𝓻𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓭𝓪✮🏳️‍⚧️ @Short_77227]

Notice how this is around 9 months after Charlie Kirk died👀👀👀👀👀

[Champlahoma 🏆 @champlahoma]

After trading Lu Dort, the OKC Thunder have a roster spot open.

Russell Westbrook is a free agent.

Presti, bring Brodie home!

[Blessing 🇰🇪🇨🇩 @praisekeffa]

The undrafted role player out of Arizona State who transformed to an all defensive powerhouse. Thank you for all the effort and dedication you brought to the thunder blue and sunset orange, I still remember your first playoff series like yesterday. I will miss you Lu, Go be great

[Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar]

Another great Lu Dort moment:

Game winner vs the Spurs during the Covid season.

Dort falls to the ground in celebration.

His OKC teammates dogpile him.

The fake crowd noise goes wild.

[triple double cocaine bear @IIlIIlIlIIlIlll]

This will always be my favorite shot in NBA Finals history

[Mayor David Holt @davidfholt]

At 1 a.m. on July 6, 2019, the news broke that the Thunder were trading Paul George. It was evident within hours this was the end of an era in Thunder history and that this blockbuster trade would also lead to the departure of our beloved Russell Westbrook.

About twelve hours later, at 1:30 p.m., the Thunder put out a press release announcing that they were signing an undrafted rookie named Luguentz Dort. On this emotional day for Thunder fans, the timing was perhaps less than ideal. The announcement of Dort’s signing may have seemed a jarring answer to the news of the morning. What anyone could hardly have imagined was that the seeds had just been planted for our city’s first championship.

Four days after Dort’s signing, on July 10th, the Paul George trade was officially announced by the teams involved, and a second Canadian - Shai Gilgeous-Alexander - officially joined Lu to begin a new chapter in Thunder history. Fans will have to be forgiven for failing to realize that four days in July, 2019 had just secured the core of a championship team.

Lu would become the longest-tenured player on the 2025 NBA Champions and would set the tone early for the team’s rise to that moment, starting with a spirited breakout performance in the 2020 playoffs.

Lu Dort was not just one of the 18 young men who brought Oklahoma City its first title in 2025, he was a key leader and contributor, and always a fan favorite for his suffocating defense on opponents. The Dorture Chamber will long live in Thunder mythology. Lu Dort will long live in Oklahoma City history.

We wish Lu Dort all the best in this next chapter of his professional basketball journey, and he will always have a home in OKC.

[Thunder Nation @ThunderNationCP]

It is truly the end of an era in Oklahoma City.

Saying goodbye to Lu Dort hurts differently.

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

OKC’s potential starting 5:

SGA
Cason Wallace
Jalen Williams
Chet Holmgren
Isaiah Hartenstein

👀🔥

[Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar]

Lu Dort splashing 3 3 pointers in 2 minutes in Game 5 vs Denver was one of the most important moments in OKC’s 2025 championship run.

A title swinging stretch of shotmaking from one of the league’s best defenders.

[Addam M. Francisco @SuaveCEO_]

No Lu Dort. No Aaron Wiggins. No Isaiah Joe.

The Thunder identified all three, developed them properly and helped turn them into valuable NBA players.

Now, the cost of retaining the talent they developed has contributed to all three being moved.

The NBA making it increasingly difficult for teams to keep the players they develop will never make sense to me.

[brionna #1 shai defender @iheartjwill]

end of an era….. shaped everything we know about the oklahoma city thunder defense

[LongboiShai @LongboiShai]

Will ALWAYS have love for Lu Dort ❤️

[VonteLM10🇬🇭🇺🇸⚡️ @McQueenLM10]

It’s been hell of a ride 💔

[⚡️Johnny Thunderman⚡️ @jlaw091]

Lu Dort has been with the Thunder since before Covid.

Lu agreed to join the Thunder before PG & Westbrook got traded.

Lu played with Chris Paul, Steven Adams, Andre Roberson, Terrence Ferguson, and Hamidou Diallo.

That’s a Thunder Legend for real.

Thank you for everything, Lu

[Clemente Almanza @CAlmanza1007]

Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren and Jaylin Williams all reposting this Lu Dort tribute video on TikTok:

[Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar]

Atlanta Hawks now have Lu Dort, Aaron Wiggins, SGA’s cousin and Cason Wallace’s brother.

[OKC THUNDER @okcthunder]

Thank you Lu 💙🧡

[×̷̷͜×̷ @RebornKobe]

Cason Wallace deserves that extension Presti get it done ASAP 🙏🏼

[Ghost Koby @Ko6ys__]

BRO NO WAY WE GOT JEFFERY EPSTIEN WITH A DURAG ON BLACK OPS 2😂😂