A private plane had delivered Doug McDermott and Taj Gibson to their new NBA lives, and it touched down around 11 p.m. Thursday in Oklahoma City. By the time the former Chicago Bulls — acquired by the Thunder that afternoon — reached their downtown hotel, it was nearly midnight, and food options were scarce.

It was too late for room service.

But things didn't start to fall into place until Friday.

McDermott and Gibson made their Thunder debuts Friday night in a 110-93 win against the Los Angeles Lakers at Chesapeake Energy Arena, the end of a whirlwind that began at Thursday's afternoon trade deadline.

“When the game started, we were looking at different colors,” Gibson said after a 12-point, four-rebound debut. “The way things are here is just completely different from what we're used to. And it was hard.”

But not hard as the day before or the hours leading up to gametime.