Thunder GM Presti: Josh Giddey didn’t want to go to bench, asked for trade

Josh Giddey felt like the odd man out during the Thunder’s playoff run. While he had some quality games in the sweep of the Pelicans – including 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting and eight rebounds in Game 3 – he ended up a bad matchup against Dallas. Giddey was targeted on defense, and on the other end of the court he didn’t space the floor as well as a shooter, allowing the Mavericks to double off him (or just sag off into the paint and clog things up). For the final two games of the Dallas series, Isaiah Joe started and Giddey came off the bench.

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