Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus on Serge Ibaka’s 3-point shooting: “Something noteworthy happened during the third quarter of Tuesday’s innocuous preseason game between the Chicago Bulls and the Oklahoma City Thunder: Serge Ibaka made
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BOX SCORE The Thunder finished off their preseason slate of games with an 88-76 win over the Mavericks to go 4-3 overall. Kevin Durant led the way with 18 points, James Harden had 16
The last preseason game before the real stuff starts in a week. Hooray. The Thunder are expected to play their full complement of players, but with this being the last chance for the non-guaranteed
Darius Soriano of PBT on role players for contenders: “Maynor also offers them lineup flexibility, giving them a key contributor to any small-ball lineup Brooks wants to deploy. For example, a grouping of Maynor,
Gary Dineen/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE Main lesson from the Thunder’s 94-89 preseason loss to the Chicago Bulls: Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook are important. Playing without their two superstars, the Thunder struggled to find
Good news: The game is on TV tonight (NBA TV)! How about that? Bad news: Neither Kevin Durant nor Russell Westbrook will be playing. The Thunder have whittled one man off the roster and
The annual NBA GM poll came out yesterday. A few notes: The Thunder gathered only 6.7 percent of the vote that they’d win the NBA title, 36.7 percent have OKC in the Finals, 30
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Lessons from preseason
Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty Images In terms of meaningless basketball games, the Thunder’s preseason turned out to be fairly eventful. Improved players, new faces, new ideas. Now of course, with any discussion of preseason basketball comes