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Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2) reacts after a basket during the preseason NBA game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Dallas Mavericks at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla. , Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. [Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman]

TULSA – With 2 1/2 minutes left in the first quarter of the Thunder's preseason opener, 26-year-old Nerlens Noel must have felt like an old-timer.

A few feet away in a huddle of youth stood 19-year-old Darius Bazley and three 21-year-olds in Terrance Ferguson, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Hamidou Diallo.