Thunder Thankful
They don't make teams like this
The Thunder have won 94 percent of their games, which—it never happens this way, but just for fun–puts them on track for a 77-win season. The best ever is 73 wins. The Thunder’s net rating is +16.7 which, if they kept it up all season, would be the best all time. It’s hard to know who in the West can beat them; They have overcome the Rockets and Clippers, and recently had back-to-back wins over the Warriors by 24 and Lakers by 29.
And soon they’ll be adding back Jalen Williams, arguably their second-best player, who has been out all season.
So it hardly takes courage to suggest the Thunder will win the 2026 NBA championship.
But if you’re a regular TrueHoop reader, then you’ll know that I came into this season leery, because we didn’t yet have any idea how that first title might affect them. Winning is so hard, such a slog, and it’s a special team that can dig th…
