Thunder

Today is the first exciting and uplifting day for Oklahoma City Thunder fans in quite some time, as Russell Westbrook has decided to make a commitment (kind of) to be the face of the Thunder’s franchise moving forward. [tweet https://twitter.com/NBATV/status/761195984403722240] This is a huge sigh of relief for the Thunder organization as the nightmarish haze [...]

Will Kenneth Faried begin next season in a Denver Nuggets uniform? It’s a fair question, now more so than ever, knowing that Wilson Chandler should be healthy and given Nikola Jokic’s breakout rookie campaign. The Nuggets simply have too many bodies in their frontcourt, and Faried figures less into their future than any of them, [...]

Over the last 48 hours or so, there has been a lot of chatter about Kevin Durant specifically indicating to Russell Westbrook that he planned to re-sign with the Oklahoma City Thunder. But that apparently never happened. Royce Young of ESPN.com shed some clarity on the situation: There has been a lot of conversation about [...]

Even though the Oklahoma City Thunder lost Kevin Durant, they will still need to pay a pretty penny to keep their current core together. Weird, right? Russell Westbrook is slated for free agency next summer, and the Thunder will invariably try to renegotiate his contract soon, ensuring he doesn’t have the ability to leave for [...]

It seems as if a resolution to the Russell Westbrook-Oklahoma City Thunder conundrum that Kevin Durant’s departure created will be reached semi-soon. The Thunder, naturally, want a commitment from Westbrook, most likely in the form of a contract re-negotiation. They might settle for his verbal pledge, but the commitment itself is key. They cannot lose [...]

Upon choosing to leave the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors, Kevin Durant did what any self-respecting NBA free agent who just broke the hearts of millions of basketball fans would do: lay low. True story. Per Newsday‘s Al Iannazzone: The two days after I didn’t leave my bed because if I walk [...]

Trade Russell Westbrook? Just because Kevin Durant up and left for the Golden State Warriors? Puh-lease. The Oklahoma City Thunder have bigger plans, as evidenced by their decision to rescind Dion Waiters’ qualifying offer. They want to renegotiate Westbrook’s now, ahead of 2017 free agency, locking him up long term so that they don’t have [...]

Signing Kevin Durant was kind of like finding money for the Golden State Warriors. Or so team president Rick Welts says. Though the Warriors heavily recruited Durant over the last year-plus, and while they were widely viewed as the most likely landing spot for him should he leave the Oklahoma City Thunder, they never really [...]

Andre Iguodala made a pretty interesting observation on Thursday about the NBA pecking order during the 2016 NBA Playoffs. As we all know the Warriors lost in 7 games in the NBA Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers and defeated his new teammate Kevin Durant’s Oklahoma City Thunder in 7 games in the western conference finals. [...]

So much for the relationship between Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook being peachy keen. They themselves have denied it, and it has become common practice to vilify those who think a rift between the two existed. But the separation between them, as a source told Bleacher Report’s Howard Beck, was apparently very real: Their partnership [...]