{"id":844566,"date":"2026-08-05T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/844566\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:50:10","slug":"watch-lu-dorts-emotional-goodbye-video-to-thunder-fans-after-trade-to-hawks-in-nba-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/844566\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Lu Dort&#8217;s Emotional Goodbye Video to Thunder Fans After Trade to Hawks in NBA Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Lu Dort is no longer a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder after they <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/hawks-trade-for-lu-dort-thunder-mavericks\">traded<\/a> him to the Atlanta Hawks last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">But he will forever remember his time with the franchise after playing the first seven seasons of his NBA career with the Thunder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Dort released a goodbye video that featured highlights from his time in Oklahoma City. In addition to the basketball, it included moments with his teammates and the fans and the celebration after winning the 2025 championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">It ended with the words, &#8220;Thank you, OKC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">While Dort was a secondary option with the Thunder for the majority of his time, his defense, perimeter shooting and ability to impact the game in multiple ways proved critical as they established themselves as one of the best teams in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Oklahoma City may not have won the championship without him in 2024-25, so the team is surely just as thankful for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lu Dort is no longer a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder after they traded him to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-844566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}