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Why this Thunder Big 3 might be the one to start a dynasty

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Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Indiana Pacers in the NBA Finals.

Sam Presti's team is the youngest team to win an NBA championship in nearly 50 years .

Presti learned lessons from the rise and fall of the Kevin Durant-Russell Westbrook-James Harden teams.

The three stars who brought home the Thunder 's first championship delight in sharing the spotlight with each other.

Presti: "These guys represent all that's good at a young age" Presti learned from his first build: "Age is a number. Sacrifice and maturity is a characteristic, and these guys have it in spades" The Thunder won the NBA Finals for the first time in four years .

Presti has been thinking about his statement on the championship dais.

Sam Presti had groomed Mark Daigneault to be the Thunder 's head coach.

Presti always liked the way he carried himself, how he talked about the game and how his mind worked.

He found him on the back bench of Billy Donovan's staff at the University of Florida and brought him to Oklahoma City to work with the team's younger players.

The team had gone 22-50 the previous season , a huge departure from the 50 -win team.

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