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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on Trade to Thunder: 'I Am Not Russell Westbrook'

The Oklahoma City Thunder will have a drastically new look when they take the floor for the 2019-20 season, and one of their new pieces wants to assert that different could be good.

"I am not Russell Westbrook," Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who came to Oklahoma City as part of the trade package that netted the Los Angeles Clippers Paul George, told reporters. "We don't have the same name, the same body type, nothing like that. So I'm going to try to be myself and be the best me, and everything else will take care of itself.