Destry Suthers

[Destry Suthers @suthersd]

@EnesFreedom @ScottSutton1970 @okcthunder Enes, you are and will always be Family 🤞🏻

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

To my Oklahoma family;
this piece comes straight from the heart.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt.
Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it.

I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives.

When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more.

I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game.

Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker.

But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go.

He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career.

What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it.

So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down.

There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller.

They belong to children.

There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore.

As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed.

That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present.

The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter.

Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained.

We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection.

When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.”

Then he said something I will never forget.

“Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.”

In that moment, basketball felt different.

Not smaller, but clearer.

Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity.

From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me.

On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured.
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[Denton Suthers @dsuthers07]

Beyond blessed to receive my first offer from @braveshoops Thank you Coach Kaiser for the opportunity🙏
#unsignedsenior

[Chris Starr @CoachChrisStarr]

I've been a part of 3 state championships as a player, spent 3 summers in Phoenix training pros, coached 450 games in 4 years (3rd grade to 18U), 3 state tournaments in 4 years as a coach, and helped build an AAU program.

Last summer I coached 10 of the most competitive, coachable, and undervalued players in Oklahoma.

College coaches — here are your next guys🧵👇

[Chris Starr @CoachChrisStarr]

Denton Suthers | 5'10" CG | Heritage Hall @dsuthers07
Relentless 94-ft defender. 2.0 SPG. Will do whatever the team needs — score 20, get 10 assists, or lock up the best player. #Unsigned2026

[Destry Suthers @suthersd]

@kaydinjoness Let’s Ride!!!!!

[Destry Suthers @suthersd]

@JeffDye Whiney little peckerhead…

[Chris Starr @CoachChrisStarr]

Team Griffin Academy 17 Select Grey 1st Place in the @PrepHoops Grind Region Kick Off. Just the beginning for these young men. More to come!

[Jordan Davis @thejordancdavis]

Final: Heritage Hall snaps a 5-game losing skid to defeat John Marshall 64-58 in overtime at the Jones Kiwanis Tournament.

2027 G @xmbroh scored a team-high 18 points, while @dsuthers07 added 12 in the win.

@Thezuokpogba was also dominant, scoring a game-high 26 points in the loss.

[Destry Suthers @suthersd]

@EricTrump @LaraLeaTrump Thank you and your family for everything you have done and will continue to do!!!

[Blaise Ingoglia @GovGoneWild]

President Trump is really bad at this misogyny thing.

[Destry Suthers @suthersd]

@elonmusk Love you man!! Let’s do this!! Thanks for helping save free speech!!

[Denton Suthers @dsuthers07]

Thank you for the write up. @PrepHoopsOK @PrepHoops

[Prep Hoops Oklahoma @PrepHoopsOK]

Prep Hoops Circuit Stock Risers: 2026 Point Guards

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[Denton Suthers @dsuthers07]

clips from Prep Hoops Grind Region Kickoff @PHCircuit @OkieBall_1 Next up Made hoops OKC

[Chris Starr @CoachChrisStarr]

@TGriffinAcademy Select 16U vs ProSkills MTX 16U. Game 1 of @madehoops Norman Clash

[Naomi Jakins @JakinsNaomi]

TEXAS CAUTION:

In regard to all the people wanting to move here from New York and California as well as many other heavily populated cities across the country, as well as those wanting to visit...

Before you come to Texas to visit you must be aware of what is happening here. Especially, around the rural and well, All of TEXAS There's a housing shortage, rent has tripled, and folks are vacationing here in record numbers...

So, if you plan on moving here, or just plan on vacationing in our river bottoms, hill country, mountains or lakes this summer, I think you should know that wolf spiders, fire ants and bedbugs have infested hotels and motels across the area due to dryer than usual weather. The woods will eat you alive with ticks and chiggers.

On the Texas Coast, Bull Sharks are bigger than Jaws & way more aggressive. The Beaches are overrun with Portuguese Man of War Jelly Fish & the Sting Rays are as big as a Volkswagen Beetle.

Our lakes are full of gators, freshwater sharks, and creepy old guys wearing speedos.

Our rivers are full of drunks in tubes peeing themselves while the banjo players lay waiting in the bushes.

Texas Mountain Lions have eaten many domesticated animals and possibly some small children.

The local bear and coyote population are all 'in heat' and think your wife/girlfriend is hot.

Snakes... don’t even get me started on the water headed copper moccasins here, and the Diamond Back Rattler Cobras.

The poison ivy has overtaken all other vegetation.

We have had bear sightings at every park and town and they are after your picnic baskets….and some cougars have been spotted in motel rooms and bars.

Watch out for the jackalopes, they have been extremely aggressive this season.

We have the Skunk Ape invading our parks and it’s their mating season. Porcupines are "stabbing" small children should they dare to utilize the local playground equipment.

Skunks have made their way over and multiplied at unprecedented rates and wander the local campgrounds in packs looking for beer.

Murder hornets!?! We’ve got great black clouds of murder hornets, and swarms of giant crickets and even some Oklahoma grasshoppers.

Scorpions have now migrated here and have been congregating in massive quantities under rocks, logs, wooden steps, automobiles, and tarantulas are now stealing peoples food and biting like crazy.

I’m pretty sure all private tiger owners (we had a jump in them after Tiger King) have released their cats into the streets of our cities and towns.

Head lice now fly and we have vampire bats.

Oh, and no one is vaccinated.

I hear Idaho and Louisiana are really nice though. 👍🏼

[Destry Suthers @suthersd]

@coach_b_chatman @BraxtonMullins8 🔥🔥😤

[Denton Suthers @dsuthers07]

New beginnings !https://t.co/GRfgtEMREO

[Destry Suthers @suthersd]

Let’s go ⁦@dsuthers07⁩ https://t.co/Fo67YnwV73