OKC Thunder Are a Wire-to-Wire #1 Seed for the Third Straight Year

The Oklahoma City Thunder have done something only six teams in post-merger NBA history have ever accomplished: finishing as the #1 seed wire-to-wire. And they have now done it three years in a row — matching the Warriors dynasty run from 2014-15 to 2016-17.

At 64-16, SGA and company have not just been good. They have been historically dominant. Chet Holmgren has never finished worse than a #1 seed in his entire basketball career — high school, college, NBA. That is not a cherry-picked stat. That is a pattern.

The Thunder are one of only two teams (along with the Spurs) that have not lost three straight games all season. With SGA shooting 55.4% on mid-range twos and the defense suffocating opponents, OKC is not just the best team in the league. They might be building something we talk about for decades.