If your dream is that everyone from Smart, Brown, Nets 2017 and Nets 2018 are going to be superstars that create this dynasty know that its most likely we don't become contenders until our best player is around 25 to 26. If that player is picked this summer or next you are looking at not contending until 2023 or so. I hope you are patient.
Just having a bunch of young, high draft choices doesn't make you contenders. There are so many teams that can prove that that its ridiculous. They have to grow up and learn to be stars and superstars first. I am guessing when OKC had Durant, Westbrook, Harden and Ibaka all at young ages they thought they had a dynasty. They never won a ring and now because of money only one of those players remain.
I would love for it to happen but I think I will temper my enthusiasm for hoping teenagers will deliver the next Celtics dynasty. Too much can and usually does go wrong when it comes to expecting only the best case scenarios with drafted children
OKC isn't the best example. They actually DID draft three stars in three years; three mvp caliber stars. But most of the time that doesn't happen. Need to bring up one of those teams as an example.
It was only the ownerships cheapness that lost them their dynasty, I believe they were only a few million apart from extending Harden and didn't budge because they didn't want to pay the luxury tax, essential the same problem with Durant walking not surrounding him with enough talent because of their cheapness.
The most painful thing about that OKC team is that if they didn't sell/move the team from Seattle they probably would have been able to afford the luxury tax, it was a royal screw job as Oklahoma is a smaller market with an equally crappy stadium.
I would still be devastated if I was a Sonics fan, I'm actually glad Seahawks have had some success recently as their sports fans deserve it.