{"id":817947,"date":"2026-08-22T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/817947\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:00:17","slug":"every-colorado-state-player-drafted-by-the-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/817947\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Colorado State player drafted by the Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 21, 2026, 9:00 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a data-autotag=\"cd165858-eeda-4db8-a84a-db7a782e61e3\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> have developed their team over the decades via the usual ways most teams in the NBA have, finding special success through the NBA draft since their founding as the Seattle SuperSonics. Many of the franchise&#8217;s top players have joined the team either through direct selections in the annual draft or via trades executed on that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On top of this, the Thunder have selected not only several star players through the draft but also a number of notable alumni each offseason. A few colleges have been more prominently represented than others in sourcing those prospects, though OKC has always cast a wide net as well. Both prestigious programs and smaller institutions have consistently contributed high-caliber talent to the Thunder&#8217;s roster over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">So without further ado, let&#8217;s take a look at every player who has been drafted by the Thunder out of Colorado State.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Rule &#8211; center<img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:372px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787385617_822_74872452007-Short-Logo-Side_1.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thunder City Edition uniform (Photo by Zach Beeker\/NBAE via Getty Images)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Draft year and position: 2nd round (7th pick, 19th overall), 1967 NBA Draft<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Seasons at Colorado State: 2<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Seasons played with Thunder: 5<\/p>\n<p>Joe Vogel &#8211; center<img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:372px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787385617_822_74872452007-Short-Logo-Side_1.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thunder City Edition uniform (Photo by Zach Beeker\/NBAE via Getty Images)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Draft year and position: 2nd round (16th pick, 45th overall), 1996 NBA Draft<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Seasons at Colorado State: did not make the team<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Seasons played with Thunder: 4<\/p>\n<p>Nique Clifford &#8211; guard<img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:372px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787385617_822_74872452007-Short-Logo-Side_1.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thunder City Edition uniform (Photo by Zach Beeker\/NBAE via Getty Images)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Draft year and position: 1st round (24th pick, 24th overall), 2025 NBA Draft<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Seasons at Colorado State: 2<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Seasons played with Thunder: did not make the team<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 21, 2026, 9:00 p.m. CT The Oklahoma City Thunder have developed their team over the decades via&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72400,7,6,12,90461,30882,72482,72404,72452,72444,72422,72570,72484,72405,72406,72403],"class_list":["post-817947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-draft","tag-accessfree","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-sourceokc-thunder-wire","tag-sstssportsnbathunder","tag-sstsnokc-thunder","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagnba-draft","tag-tagoklahoma-city-thunder","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117138110745754757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}