Harry How/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE The facts are this: The Thunder lost today to the Lakers, 105-96. The Thunder are now 34-11, the Lakers are now 19-25. The Thunder are 2-1 against the Lakers

BOX SCORE For a few minutes there, things weren’t pretty for Oklahoma City. The effort was poor, the focus was weak and the play mostly terrible. The Thunder trailed by as many as 14

Ezra Shaw/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE With 8:08 left in the fourth quarter, the Thunder led by eight on the road at Oracle. Kevin Durant’s hand was smoldering and it appeared he was transitioning fully

BOX SCORE Everything about this matchup changed about an hour and a half before tipoff. Chris Paul was ruled out and not only did that greatly increase Oklahoma City’s chances of winning, it also

BOX SCORE Welp. You can file that one under “great game,” but only for the reason that it was super close and went to overtime. Because really, it was a sloppy mess of a

BOX SCORE Survive and advance. That’s the kind of feel tonight’s game had for the Thunder. Just win the stupid thing and then get the heck out of town. With it kicking off a

BOX SCORE It’s probably a pretty good thing when a win is so uneventful that it’s hard to really think of much to write about. Really at no point tonight, other than when it

BOX SCORE Forget Kevin Durant not being nice. I’m not so sure he’s actually part of our species anymore. A night after carrying the Thunder to a gritty win in Portland, KD played 43