Thunder make MULTIPLE moves...Major roster updates

The Thunder just made two new roster moves in the first weekend of the regular season. We have breaking news from Shams Charania that the Oklahoma City Thunder have signed a new player to a two-way deal that will eat up the minutes of rookie Otega Mowe, who suffered an Achilles injury in the second-to-last preseason game, and now two games into the regular season, it looks like Sam Presti and the Thunder are bringing in some outside help to help get some of those minutes and fill the role of Otega Mowe. So, breaking news here today on the channel, a player that was drafted 40th overall in the 2025 NBA Draft, now joining the Oklahoma City Thunder, and likely going to see some minutes on this team. Welcome into Thunder Digest, I'm Ryan Breeden. Before we get into today's video, if you've been enjoying the content lately, go help us reach our subscriber goal of 11,000 subscribers. We're going to try to get there by Thanksgiving. we've got 33 days to do it we're at 10,500 I think we can actually smash this subscriber goal without a doubt maybe even get to 12k but again as this the point of this video the Thunder making some new roster moves signing a high upside wing to replace Otega Mowe and that player as reported by Shams Charania is former Pelicans second round pick Micah Peavy joining the Thunder on a two-way deal as reported by the NBA Insider and all of this coming after that injury to Otega Mowe who signed the two-way deal fresh off of his second round pick status earlier this summer he suffers the ruptured right Achilles in the very end of the preseason ending his season and then now the Thunder with an extra two-way spot available because of that injury they on October 23rd yesterday, yesterday afternoon announced that they are signing Micah Peavy and Micah Peavy was a highly sought after one of the cuts that was made around the NBA near the end of the preseason. The Toronto Raptors were heavily linked to him. The Dallas Mavericks heavily linked as well. He ends up signing with the Thunder on this two-way deal and he has had a very interesting path to getting it to the league. It all started back in June of his draft year when he actually worked out with Sam Presti and the Thunder he did that in June 2025 later that month he gets drafted and eventually ends up going to New Orleans his draft rights got traded from Washington to the Pelicans he plays in 61 games in New Orleans in his rookie year last year gets traded to Memphis in September gets waived by Memphis after some ankle injuries and some other struggles that we're going to get into here in today's video and now here he is four days after being cut getting a waiver from the Thunder and a chance to come and develop with the best organization in basketball and the Thunder off to a 2-0 start here this season the thing that is really strange though if you go over to Kalshi right now the Thunder are actually second in odds to face the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals matchup the most quote-unquote likely matchup is Timberwolves and Spurs so it doesn't even include the Thunder this is basically free money if you ask me right now I like the Thunder and Spurs to have a rematch in the conference finals if you trade $50 you would win $146 on that today's video sponsored by Kalshi, go click that link down below, go put in code digest NBA when you do so you trade 25 bucks and you'll get $55 in bonus funds added onto your account you can trade on anything sports related like the the trade that I just showed you right there and either whether it be sports whether it be pop culture whether it be music whether it be anything in between the thing that makes it unique is that you're trading against other users not against the quote-unquote house like other sportsbooks so again go click the link and put in code digest nba to go check it out more but continuing on with today's video basically going one for one with PV taking away his two-way spot and this is going to be a chance for him to re-kickstart his nba career in the best way possible and kind of part two to this whole situation is obviously to free up that two-way spot for Micah Peavy the Thunder have to officially waive Otega away it doesn't mean that he's gone from the organization it means that his two-way spot no longer exists as of right now he is going to basically be absorbed into the G League at this moment in time and the Thunder still own his rights they just don't have him anywhere obligated with the main team right now which makes sense since his entire season is now thrown away, which is awful for him. I mean, I'm gut-wrenched for Otega Maya and what happened, but in a lot of ways, Micah Peavy is kind of Otega Maya 2.0, and let's go into how that is the case. He brings NBA experience to OKC. Here is his rookie numbers for those of you that don't really have a ton of familiarity with Micah Peavy. Last season, he averaged 4.3 points a game. he played in 61 games with the pelicans on a very bad team he played 15 minutes a game 45 true shooting percentage the biggest number that is the thing that he's going to have to work on as a wing player as a guy that you want to have as kind of a defense first type of option he's got to work on his shooting 38 and a half percent from the field only 25.9 percent from three not good enough for sustained minutes at this level he is listed officially at six foot seven 220 pounds so he kind of fits the role of the wing position that I know so many of you out there desire this team to have and he has had some good games in his career the last five games of his rookie season he averaged nearly 11 points a game and he played 35 minutes per game as well so he got a lot of run in several games last season and his experience and you can kind of combine that in with the Thunder DNA this is a perfect signing for Sam Presti and yet another one that is low risk I mean no risk at all and only possibly high upside if it doesn't go well you're not really risking anything but if you're able to develop Micah Peavy into the kind of player that he can be he's another guy that fits in perfectly with this team and he is going to just only come in and he's going to get mentored by other wing players that are defense first guys that have worked on their shot in their career and have become players that are beyond successful in this league exhibit a being Alex Caruso I'm sorry that you can't even see his eyes there I don't know why I cut him off like that but you know what Alex Caruso looks like and the opportunity obviously it's different than just saying okay now we're going to see Micah Peavy play in every game realistically change of pace minutes near the end of the bench I would see him playing between four and seven minutes a game maybe more in games where you're up by 30 points at halftime probably not at all in plenty of the games where it's competitive you know you're playing against San Antonio you're playing against Minnesota most of the time when you're playing against Denver stuff like that he's got a chance to earn more if he can show some flashes and if he can get healthy. He's got some lingering ankle stuff right now. Again, high upside, no risk for Oklahoma City, and he's available now because he was released by the Grizzlies a couple of days ago, along with Walter Clayton Jr., who was a fringe lottery pick. So if the shot can translate, and that is his biggest thing that is going to hold him back, he can absolutely regrow his career into a really good place. At TCU, where he was for three years in the Big 12, He only made 26 threes, or I guess technically you'd say he made, what, 52 threes in his TCU career in four seasons. He goes to Georgetown for a fifth year, and he shot 133 threes in his senior season at Georgetown, and he was 40% from beyond the arc. So at that point in time, teams see his size, teams see his willingness to be physical and have it translate as a 3 and D kind of wing in the league people were interested in having him come on as a late first early second round pick which is what he was but he comes to the NBA and the three-point shot just absolutely disappeared into thin air 25.9% from three huge reason for his release but he can fit in really well alongside the Thunders creators on this team lots of cuts to the basket a guy that can move the basketball around and obviously you know with the defensive prowess that he is known for he can earn some extra brownie points with coach Mark who is a defense first guy and with Micah Peavy getting the chance to earn some minutes here in this late rotation there is an interesting connection that Micah Peavy already has with the Thunder beyond just him having a pre-draft workout in 2025 he was teammates at Georgetown with Thomas Sorber back in 2024 and Sorber had his season ended short about halfway through the year he had his ACL injury that year sorry I mean left his foot injury is what it was he broke his foot and then he tore the ACL when he came to OKC either way Thomas Sorber hasn't played yet at all in the NBA but him and Micah Peavy were teammates in Georgetown for the 2024 season and they thrived with the Hoyas I mean they were the two leading scorers on the team you see their point totals Micah Peavy averaged nearly six rebounds a game he had nearly two and a half steals a game and obviously his shooting splits were phenomenal him and Thomas Sorber quite literally were Georgetown basketball for the 24 games that they crossed over with one another now obviously two years later they both end up with Oklahoma City Sam Presti ultimately liked both of these players and he was able to get both of them Thomas Sorber obviously as a first round pick two years ago who hasn't yet played and Micah Peavy as a guy who he can now bring in with quite literally no risk involved the swing skill for him is gonna be the outside shot if he's able to knock down some of those shots more consistently get some help from the Thunder coaching staff and their development team and also work with some of the guys on the roster and in the G League if he can turn those open looks into points and his useful defense involved with that he can earn a much bigger opportunity with Oklahoma City and you can just see what things look like when it is at its best he played against Minnesota back in a game in April 21 points he was two of four from three six of 12 from the field he played 41 minutes and the dude balled out against a really good Timberwolves team midway to end of the season last year so Micah Peavy there's a reason why teams really really were interested in him off of the waivers and we're going to see if he can earn those minutes going forward he's going to have to get healthy as a reminder two-way deals this is basically what it means NBA and G League development opportunities no true financial risk for the Thunder other than the minimum requirements that you get with the G League contracts NBA availability you're going to follow those two-way limits and then you'd have to sign him to a standard contract in order to have the playoff eligibility and the Thunder do have a 15th roster spot open right now because they weren't able to get Spencer Jones from Denver but my guess into how this whole thing is going to go is that he's going to spend more time in the G League than he will anywhere else for most of this next season but I think his NBA experience and the development that he can go through with this team gives him a unique skill set that he can add at least on to the Thunders roster in some place he's an obvious shooting project no doubt about it but he's going to have a good opportunity and I want to get your guys's opinions now down below in the comments let me know how intrigued you are by Micah Peavy joining the Thunder do you expect him to get decent minutes going forward in the first couple of games when he's available do you like the skill set fit do you think it's going to depend entirely on if he can shoot or do you just need to see him first because you don't really know exactly what it is that you're expecting from him let me know on all of that obviously this is the upcoming schedule for OKC and the times that he could potentially have to play you're gonna have four games this next week Clippers and Suns back-to-back Sunday Monday on the road against Dallas on the Wednesday 28th and then on October 31st Halloween you're gonna play at Houston but yeah let me know kind of what you guys are thinking it down below and then our comment spotlight of the day I think this is going to be a great opportunity for coach Caruso to maybe help coach up Micah Peavy into being a usable interbench player for Oklahoma City I mean the dude started his career as a developmental project in himself with the Thunder G League he ends up making a career out of himself in LA and then Chicago he comes back to OKC helps you win a title and now the dude is the bald mamba that's feared by everyone in the league for his defensive game and what he can do, which is knock down three point shots in the biggest moments. Make Caruso a coach after he retires. Hell, let's make Caruso a coach now. Let him coach up Micah Peavy while he's also playing and help get the Thunder another usable player. So again, let me know what your guys' thoughts are on this down below. More breaking news, any of those kinds of things, all will be right here on the channel. So remember to go subscribe down below if you have not and go leave a comment while you are down there have a chance to be in the comment spotlight appreciate you guys for supporting the channel and we'll see you guys later