On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the humming of a late afternoon lunch gathering grinded to a halt when Thunder teammates Terrance Ferguson and Dakari Johnson entered the room.
Clad in blue tees emblazoned with the Thunder Cares wordmark on the chest, the duo took their seats at the front of the room as part of a panel for a mentoring session with middle school students from the OKC Boys Institute on Sunday inside the Thunder Corporate offices at Chesapeake Energy Arena.
When Ferguson and Johnson fielded questions, they shared light-hearted anecdotes of life as a Thunder rookie scrambling around town to fulfill food orders from teammates and recounted the exhilaration of having their name called in the NBA Draft.