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-11 posts tagged "Oklahoma City Thunder"
Grant DelVecchio | Thursday, February 14, 2019
As we approach the 68th-annual NBA All-Star Game, the race for this year’s MVP award has just started to heat up. If you ever thought the award would end up being a shootout between Giannis Antetokounmpo and James Harden, Paul George is doing his best to help change your mind. George is in the midst
Charlotte Edmonds | Monday, November 5, 2018
Only 10 games into the 82-game NBA season and things are starting to shake out as teams work through injuries and new additions. Although no significant conclusions can be made until at least the All-Star break, these are my much-too-soon observations. Minnesota Timberwolves Featuring the backcourt duo of Jimmy Butler and Derrick Rose, the Wolves
Charlotte Edmonds | Thursday, August 23, 2018
Having begun my amateur journalism career in news, the thought of writing a sports opinion piece is my own personal eighth circle of hell. However, there are few things I love talking about more than my hometown of Oklahoma City and its beloved basketball team — the Thunder. Consider yourself warned that the majority of
Marek Mazurek | Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Knee-jerk reactions are fun. Or I guess I should say they’re absolutely and utterly fantastic. In any case, they drive a lot of sports media content in today’s market, and one area where such reactions get a platform is in trade evaluations. When trades happen — particularly in the NBA — every TV personality has
Michael Ivey | Wednesday, January 24, 2018
It hasn’t been a great couple of weeks for the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavaliers have a record of 3-8 since their Christmas Day defeat to the Golden State Warriors and have fallen to third in the Eastern Conference behind the Boston Celtics and the Toronto Raptors. Last Saturday, the Cavaliers were defeated 148-124 at home
Tobias Hoonhout | Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Although my colleague Mia Berry made some good points about the unbalance in the NBA in her column yesterday, the fact of the matter is that the Western Conference, with potentially 10 teams fighting for the final five playoff spots, remains a dogfight for who will be playing besides the Spurs, Rockets and Warriors come
Michael Ivey | Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Golden State Warriors remain the standard in the NBA. They have made the last three NBA Finals, won two of them, and are the favorite to repeat as champions this upcoming season. But their road through the Western Conference might have gotten a lot harder. On Saturday, news broke that the Oklahoma City
R.J. Stempak | Tuesday, August 30, 2016
One of the biggest free agency losses in NBA history happened this summer. The only instance that was even close to the Oklahoma City Thunder losing Kevin Durant to the Golden State Warriors was Shaquille O’Neal leaving the Orlando Magic for the Los Angeles Lakers all the way back in 1996. And while the repercussions
R.J. Stempak | Monday, April 4, 2016
The NBA playoffs are drawing near, and the two teams that are dominating headlines are the ones that are predictable and consistent. The San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors are the teams that get all the attention because they have put together two of the best regular-season performances in the history of the sport. So,
R.J. Stempak | Monday, February 15, 2016
With Super Bowl 50 in the past, baseball long gone in hibernation and hockey impossible to imitate, now is the perfect time to watch the NBA. The NBA is wrongly ignored until the playoffs, under the assumption that simply nothing matters until May and June. That could not be more untrue as this season finds