Honestly, no. I hadn’t heard anything about the possibilities to be honest. It’s the trade deadline, so I know it’s possible for everyone, but I didn’t think it at all. I just got a text, was playing Legos with my son and practice was supposed to be at 2 and it got bumped back to 6, so I thought great I’ll just play with my kids. Was playing Legos and got a text from my friend that said ‘Congrats on your new team.’ And I looked and it was literally two minutes before the trade deadline. Typed my name into Twitter and saw the deal.

When you hear it’s the Thunder, you excited about getting inserted into a playoff race?

You obviously feel a lot of things at first. You know you can be traded, but you don’t really live that way. You have relationships and friends and you’ve invested yourself in that team. So your initial thoughts are about leaving Utah and your friends and your teammates and that kind of thing. So it was tough. But then you think about where you’re going and obviously coming to a team like this is what you play for. You want to contend and play for a ring. That side of it is extremely exciting, but the whole thing is bittersweet.

Enes (Kanter) was a guy who obviously wanted the trade, so I’m sure he’s embraced it. But you’ve been on a lot of teams. Do you give him any advice about switching teams, things like that?