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The Oklahoma City Thunder enter the season as defending champions. Here are five teams that can deny them a repeat title.
Watch every game on the OKC Thunder’s schedule as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren try to defend their NBA championship.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are pushing to repeat as NBA champions, but a loaded Western Conference could extend the NBA's era of parity at the top.
Can the Oklahoma City Thunder become the first team to win back-to-back NBA championships since the Golden State Warriors? They're talking about it.
NBC is carrying NBA games for the first time since 2002. Here's how to watch the season-opening doubleheader on Tuesday.
The Oklahoma City Thunder will begin their season on Oct. 21 by playing host to the Houston Rockets on ring night as the team drops their first NBA championship
The defending champs always start the season on top of these NBA Power Rankings (unless someone goes full Mark Cuban and blows up a champ for no good reason), but it almost feels like the Thunder should be on their own tier to start this campaign. It's OKC and everyone else is chasing. Let's break it all down by tiers.
This list puts a spotlight on the Thunder players who have earned First Team selections throughout Oklahoma City’s combined 58 seasons.
But even before the Larry O’Brien Trophy took up residence in Oklahoma City, these Thunders started working their way into people’s hearts.
Oklahoma City brought back every major piece from last year’s championship team, plus added Nikola Topic with the 12th overall pick, Brooks Barnhizer with the 44th, and signed 2022 11th overall pick Ousmane Dieng. The Thunder are favored to win back-to-back titles by a wide margin, and it’s hard to argue against.
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