Trail Blazers at Thunder: Portland GM has team back to its winning ways
Thunder general manager Sam Presti hopes to build a playoff contender like Kevin Pritchard has assembled in Portland .
The irony is Pritchard said Presti is one of the people that influenced his career.
Pritchard, a former Oklahoma high school basketball star, has taken over a franchise once mocked as "the Jail Blazers” and has them in position to end a five-year playoff drought.
"I fir...
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