The Oklahoma City Thunder’s season ended on Friday night when they lost a six-game series to the Utah Jazz. The defeat wasn’t a huge shock, given the teams had identical 48-34 records in the regular season, but it put the finishing touches on a disappointing year in OkC and sent the franchise—along with its individual […]
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The Oklahoma City Thunder have been…well, thundering through the NBA’s Western Conference as we reach this weekend’s All-Star break in New Orleans. The Thunder are sitting on a 43-12 record, good for a four-game lead for the top seed in the West, and narrowly ahead of the Indiana Pacers for the NBA’s best overall record. What’s more, Kevin Durant is emerging as the odds-on favorite to be the MVP.
The NBA’s Western Conference has certainly enjoyed an interesting first couple weeks of the season. We start it off with Oklahoma City trading James Harden and then the Los Angeles Lakers firing head coach Mike Brown. Then the bigger surprise of the Lakers not replacing Brown with Phil Jackson, and instead opting for Mike D’Antoni. TheSportsNotebook took a closer look at the Lakers last week, and the fundamentals of what was written remains the same. It’s just the offensive-minded D’Antonio rather than the defensive-oriented Brown who will be overseeing what needs to be done. Today let’s look at the other Western Conference power in transition, and that’s the Oklahoma City Thunder.
This was supposed to be Oklahoma City’s year in the Western Conference, as the compressed lockout-induced schedule would favor their young legs and the conference finals loss to Dallas a year ago had given them the playoff toughness. So far, so good. The Thunder is 11-2 and leading the West as they go into a […]