Oklahoma City Thunder Tickets

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The Oklahoma City Thunder is one of the NBA's most polarized and thoroughly discussed teams. The Thunder was originally founded in 1967 as the Seattle Supersonics. While they were in Seattle, the Sonics won six division titles and three Western Conference titles- 19778, 1979, and 1996. In 1979 they also won the NBA Championship. In 2008 the franchise moved to Oklahoma City, and it was a very controversial move. Many accused the NBA of conspiring to move the team away from Seattle despite promises that the team would remain in Seattle. Since the move to Oklahoma City, the Thunder has been one of the NBA's premiere teams. This run of success has been built on two players, Kevin Durant, and Russel Westbrook, and as far as tandems go, it doesn't get any better than those two. The Thunder have won their division the last four seasons running and won the Western Conference in 2012.

Since 2010 the Thunder have been near the top of the league, however this season they have taken a step back, largely due to injury. Kevin Durant has missed most of the season with injury problems, and that has forced Westbrook to do everything. Westbrook is making a strong MVP run.

The Oklahoma City Thunder finished the 2014-2015 regular season with a record of 45-37, good for 9th place in the Western Conference, narrowly missing the playoffs. The Thunder scuffled a little towards the end of the season which is what led to falling out of 8th place in the Conference in the final week. The Thunder held the 14th selection overall in the 2015 NBA draft, and used it to select Cameron Payne, a point guard from Murray State. The Thunder then used their second round draft choice on Dakari Johnson, a center from Kentucky with nice size at 6'11”, 263 pounds.

The biggest change for the Thunder though was the head coach. The Thunder elected to move on with Scott Brooks and replaced him with Florida Gators head coach Billy Donovan It has been thought for a while that Donovan was headed to the NBA. Donovan's biggest task will be to win over the support of star players Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook.

The Oklahoma City Thunder had a very good 2015-2016 season. The Thunder finished the regular season with a record of 55-27, good for the third seed in the Western Conference playoffs. They took on the Dallas Mavericks in round one of the NBA playoffs, and won that series in five games. In round two, the Thunder defeated the San Antonio Spurs in six games. In the Western Conference Championship Series, their opponent was the Golden State Warriors, and they lost the series in seven games.

During the off season, the biggest task was working with Kevin Durant and his free agency decision. In a move that many thought was a cowardly act by Durant, he signed with the Warriors. This caused many fans of the game to become upset, and many wondered if this NBA “super team” concept has been taken too far. After a draft day trade that left them with no first round pick, the Thunder had a quiet off season.

So far this season, the Thunder are going about the pace everyone thought. They currently stand with a record of 35-28, good for the seven seed in the Western Conference. Russell Westbrook is on pace to become the second player in NBA history to average a triple-double for an entire season, the first having been Oscar Robertson.

The 2016-2017 season for the Oklahoma City Thunder was their first without longtime franchise player Kevin Durant, and it was a rather exciting one. Russell Westbrook joined Oscar Robertson as the only players in NBA history to average a triple-double for an entire season. The team made it to the Western Conference playoffs but were run out of the playoffs in five games by the red-hot third-seeded Houston Rockets.

The Thunder probably had the highest profile off season in the NBA. Before they got to the rest of it, they used their first round draft choice to add shooting guard Terrance Ferguson from Australia. The team then made two massive trades in the off season. First they traded guard Victor Oladipo and forward Damontes Sabonis to the Pacers for forward Paul George. In the second trade, they acquired perhaps the most polarizing athlete in American sports at the moment, forward Carmelo Anthony. This trade was in exchange for Enes Kanter, Doug McDermott, and a second round draft choice. We will see how the Thunder’s new look roster performs.

No team in the NBA has been the subject of more news headlines and more discussion the last couple of years than the Oklahoma City Thunder. After Kevin Durant left in free agency to join the Golden State Warriors, Russell Westbrook’s career took off, and the following season Westbrook joined Oscar Robertson as the only two players in NBA history to average a triple-double for an entire season. So let’s cover what the team did to surround Westbrook with talent.

For starters, fans were excited when they found out that Paul George decided to return to Oklahoma City on a deal for just over 30 million per year. They also traded for hybrid guard Dennis Schroder and they also have talented young center Steven Adams locked in. How have the moves worked out this season? The Thunder are off to a 27-18 start this season, which currently places them in third place in the Western Conference if the playoffs were to begin right now. Westbrook and George are continuing to mesh well, and the addition of Schroder has been positive. Whether or not they can topple the Warriors or Rockets and reach the NBA Finals remains to be seen, but so far, so good.

In recent years, the Oklahoma City Thunder had morphed into Russell Westbrook’s team. He began dominating the ball, averaging triple-doubles the last couple of seasons. However, if you look deeper into the numbers, his ball domination was actually negative for the Thunder. A year ago they finished 49-33, good for the sixth seed out West. In round one they were matched up with the third-seeded Portland Trailblazers, who dispatched of them in-game five when Damien Lillard hit one of the most epic shots in NBA history.

This offseason, the first order of business for the Thunder was to pull the plug on Westbrook, sending him to the Houston Rockets for point guard Chris Paul. Both players were reported to have been “blindsided” by the move. The move pairs Westbrook with another dominator of the ball, shooting guard James Harden, a former teammate of his as well. For the draft, the Thunder used their first-round draft choice, 21st overall, on forward Brandon Clarke from Gonzaga. Other than that, the Thunder did nothing in free agency.

After years and years of trying different combinations of players and coaches, nothing has worked as well as they had hoped, so it appears the Thunder may be getting ready to bail on their roster as is and rebuild it. This could get interesting.