Alexander’s MVP season leading the 2025 Thunder to the NBA Finals, the comparisons to the 2012 Durant-Westbrook-Harden trio are heating up. But who’d actually win a seven-game series?

The Oklahoma City Thunder punched their NBA Finals ticket for the first time since 2012 in true Thunder fashion: They suffocated the Timberwolves' offense to the point that Minnesota -- a deserving conference finals team -- looked completely inept.

Seventeen years ago, then-Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson said teams must win 40 regular-season games before losing 20 games to be seen as elite. The

During his time suiting up for the Thunder, Cole wore only jersey No. 30 and put up 3.3 points and 1.1 assists per game.

How are we meant to remember the finish of the Thunder’s Game 4 win? A quarter and final few minutes so chaotic that they feel impossible to define or whittle down to a single moment.

Home-court advantage has always been coveted by NBA teams, but the Paycom Center lends the Thunder an advantage virtually no other team has. Throughout the NBA playoffs, teams out