When the news broke that Huestis would become the first domestic D-League draft-and-stash first round player and would not sign the CBA mandated rookie contract, shock turned into outrage. SBNation's Tom Ziller called on the NBA to force the Thunder to pay Huestis his first round money and wrote the Thunder were "duping" a Stanford graduate into helping them avoid the luxury tax. He said Presti was the genius behind it all and that he used a promise to pick Huestis in the first round as "bait" to convince him to agree to this "lunacy.
Josh Huestis is proof that a good mind can be more powerful than a good jump shot
