Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren scored 25 points each as the Oklahoma City Thunder kept their winning streak rolling with a 131-101 win over the Utah Jazz on Sunday in Salt Lake City.
The Oklahoma City Thunder continue to make history as they march through the 2025-26 campaign. Now at 23-1, the OKC Thunder have tied their longest winning streak in franchise history, with 15 straight victories, as they dominated the Utah Jazz on Sunday in Salt Lake City.
Oklahoma City has enjoyed a historic start to their 2025-26 campaign. Sitting atop the NBA with a 22-1 record, the Thunder are not only off to their best start in franchise history but just two more wins shy of tying the Warriors 24-1 record to start the 2015-16 campaign in which Golden State went on to rattle off 73 wins.
Oklahoma City is still a bit hampered by injuries with bumps and bruises, including Isaiah Hartenstein’s week-to-week diagnosis. As the team takes the floor on Sunday night, the injury report is lengthy, although many of those injuries are short term and just out of caution.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will have to watch from the bench for the first time in Oklahoma City's season on Sunday night—leaving the integrity of a 14-game win streak in the hands of his teammates.
Christmas and the NBA go hand-in-hand. The day serves for the top hoops league in the world, like Thanksgiving for the NFL. However, while the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys are perpetual Thanksgiving participants, the NBA has mixed up the matchups and the teams throughout the years.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have one of the best defenses in the NBA, and potentially one of the best in recent memory. OKC sits atop the NBA in multiple defensive statisitics, including defensive rating and turnover percentage.
Oklahoma City Thunder star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will miss his first game of the season on Sunday when he sits out versus the host Utah Jazz on Sunday because of left elbow bursitis.
The Thunder enter Sunday night riding a fourteen-game winning streak, but their momentum is suddenly under threat. The team announced that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will miss the Jazz matchup due to elbow bursitis, leaving Oklahoma City without its MVP candidate for the first time during this run.
It took Russell Westbrook until the final days of the offseason to find a team, but the all-time great has been making the most of his opportunity nonetheless.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star Jalen Williams revealed he’s not 100% from wrist surgery after Friday’s 132-111 win against the Dallas Mavericks.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams were big parts of the Oklahoma City Thunder's championship run last season. Heading into Sunday's matchup with the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City, Gilgeous-Alexander is playing even better than he did last season, when he won NBA Most Valuable Player honors.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are far and away the best team in the Western Conference and the NBA. They are a well-rounded team, but they always hang their hat on their elite defense, which is their biggest strength.
The defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder hosted the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night. The Thunder defeated the Mavericks 133-111 at the Paycom Center.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are proving they are ready to create a new NBA dynasty. Fresh off winning the championship last season, they look even hungrier and more dominant, currently topping the Western Conference standings with only one loss.
The Cason Wallace DPOY hype is getting more traction after the Thunder guard was named the Western Conference Defensive Player of the Month. Wallace is seeing a bigger spotlight in his games as he continues to put up massive defensive performances in his games.
Mark Daigneault of the Thunder and J.B. Bickerstaff of the Pistons have been named the NBA’s Coaches of the Month for games played in October and November, the league announced in a press release.
Raptors forward Scottie Barnes is the Eastern Conference Defensive Player of the Month for October/November, while Thunder guard Cason Wallace won the award for the Western Conference, according to an announcement from the NBA (Twitter link).
The Oklahoma City Thunder are off to a 20-1 start, and poised to get even better in the years to come. That has the rest of the NBA very worried. The Thunder could own as many as three lottery picks in 2026 as a result of past trades depending on how things go.
Despite missing multiple key players for extended periods of time with injuries in consecutive seasons, the Oklahoma City Thunder are off to a historic 20-1 start.
The Oklahoma City Thunder will be without center Hartenstein for 10-14 days. It's a preview of what salary cap constraints might force their roster into next season.