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One of Oklahoma State’s Splash Brothers is joining the team that originated the term Splash Brothers.
The Oklahoma City Thunder is trading Lindy Waters III to the Golden State Warriors, according to Shams Charania. Anthony Slater, an Oklahoma State alum who covers the Warriors for The Athletic, reports that Golden State plan to keep Waters and pay him $2.2 million next season. In return, the Thunder will receive the No. 52 pick in the NBA Draft, which will be selected later Thursday.
It’s bittersweet in that Waters’ journey through Oklahoma ends. A Native American who attended Norman North High School, Waters played at Oklahoma State from 2016 to 2020. He then played with the Enid Outlaws before landing a deal with the OKC Blue — the Thunder’s G League affiliate. He then worked his way up to a two-way contract with the Thunder before an outright NBA contract. But at the same time, Waters wasn’t playing a ton of minutes with the Thunder, as OKC made its push to earn the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference this past season. He appeared in 38 games, playing 7.4 minutes a contest. So hopefully this move sees Waters on the floor more frequently.
Waters scored 1,152 points in his OSU career — good for 31st in program history behind Joe Adkins and ahead of Joe Atkinson. Waters hit 177 career 3s in Stillwater, which is good for 11th in program history. His 3-point shooting paired with classmate Thomas Dzaigwa’s gave the pair the nickname the Splash Brothers, which funnily enough is a play on the Splash Brother tandem of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson at Golden State.
Waters has appeared in 104 NBA regular season games, putting up 550 points in that time while shooting 38% from 3.
He helped the Blue win a G League title this past season and average 21.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 10 G League games.
Spots on the Thunder’s roster are growing limited, as OKC took two players in Wednesday night’s First Round — Serbia guard Nikola Topic at 12 and Weber State guard Dillon Jones at 26. Golden State, meanwhile, didn’t select anyone in the First Round.
The Warriors went 46-36 last season, earning the 10 seed in the West before failing to get out of the Play-In Tournament. It’s an interesting time in Golden State, as the franchise is working to make the best of its remaining years with Curry, who is 36. There has been a lot of talk around Thompson’s future, as he enters this offseason as an unrestricted free agent.
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