The same conversation followed around Kevin Durant’s and Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors. In 2016, Durant joined a group that lost in the finals after a magical 73-9 regular season. The Warriors won the title in each of the next two years. Yet, some teams still chose to compete with them.

The Oklahoma City Thunder held practice on Wednesday, Dec. 17. It's the last day of a mini-four-day Christmas break thanks to the funky NBA Cup tournament. The Thunder will host the LA Clippers on Thursday before they travel to face the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday in an impromptu home-and-road back-to-back created by the NBA Cup schedule.

The Oklahoma City Thunder are getting the entire team to buy into this fluid rotational set up of Mark Daigneault, and have for many years. The Thunder players and coaches discussed how this is possible at practice today.

The Thunder is upending the cosmic order of basketball. Like the mythological gods of thunder, the Thunder basketballers have become all-powerful.

NBA All-Star voting is now open, allowing Oklahoma City Thunder fans to support their favorite players as the team makes an impressive start to the season. To vote, fans can go to OKCThunder.com/vote to have their say. They will need to have an NBA ID to make the selections.

Stephen A. Smith warns that the Oklahoma City Thunder’s dominant start could make the NBA season less exciting.

Oklahoma City lost its second game of the season last weekend, and once again, it came down to the wire. It took a perfect storm for this Thunder team to finally drop one — namely Victor Wembanyama’s nearly flawless return, and Oklahoma City going ice cold from long range.

The San Antonio Spurs toppled the defending league champion Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Cup, and surge in the power rankings as a result.