The Oklahoma City Thunder lead the NBA several defensive categories, and they take care of the ball. The Indiana Pacers are in the NBA Finals for the second time in franchise history, and they ...

The 2024-25 NBA season isn't over quite yet. The Finals kicked off on Thursday, and the underdog Indiana Pacers managed to take a 1-0 lead. The series may have a long way to go, but teams other than Indiana and the Oklahoma City Thunder are already looking ahead to the looming offseason.

Oklahoma City is no stranger to this. The Thunder haven’t lost back-to-back games in the playoffs, and they followed up that Denver loss with a 43-point victory in the series’ next game. Another option for Oklahoma City will be to return to its normal starting lineup.

A city that didn’t exist a century and a half ago, a town off the major-sport grid when this century began, is sports' latest magnetic north

NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal spoke out with criticism after the Oklahoma City Thunder's Game 1 NBA Finals loss.

The Thunder didn’t even exist in Oklahoma City when the 1995 bombing happened; the franchise that had been known as the Seattle SuperSonics didn’t relocate to America’s heartland until more than a decade later.