Ned Dishman/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE Sometimes, you really do need to lose. You start seeing your name at the top of the standings, you name at the top of everyone’s power rankings, your name

Brian Babineau/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE Go ahead and gripe about Russell Westbrook. Gripe about his shot selection, gripe about the chip on his shoulder, gripe that he’s not a point guard, gripe that he

Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE All blowouts are not created equal. There are the ho-hum variety like the way the Thunder handled the Suns or Rockets. And then there are the kind like the

Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE The Thunder played like a team in its fifth game in six nights. Lucky for them, they were playing an overmatched Hornets squad that was without its best player

Joe Murphy/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE The last time Russell Westbrook visited Memphis, he took 13 shots. And didn’t make a single one. He called it the worst game of his career and left the

Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE So, I think the second unit might be just fine. OK, that’s probably way too early of a judgment, but considering the way the Thunder, and more importantly the

Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE You just really can’t ever doubt Kevin Durant. Even on nights where he looks off and has lost his touch, he always possesses the ability to come back. It’s

Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE A couple days off can make anyone feel a whole lot better about going to work. The Thunder didn’t play all that well in consecutive losses to Dallas and