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According to Thunder insider Brandon Rahbar, Isaiah Hartenstein will be unavailable against Los Angeles due to injury management. Before returning to the starting lineup in their last matchup against San Antonio, Hartenstein has missed the previous two weeks due to a calf strain.
Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs snapped the Oklahoma City Thunder's record 16-game win streak with a 111-109 win in the NBA Cup semifinals.
That dropped the Thunder to 24-2 on the season, “only” a record 76-win pace. They are off to the second-fastest start in NBA history, trailing only the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors, who were 25-1 and went on to set an NBA record 73 wins that season.
Victor Wembanyama is expected to return following a 12-game absence, and that’s perfect timing as Wemby’s San Antonio Spurs take on the Oklahoma City Thunder in Las Vegas with a trip to the NBA Cup Finals on the line.
Oklahoma City lost its second game of the season last weekend, and once again, it came down to the wire. It took a perfect storm for this Thunder team to finall
The Thunder is upending the cosmic order of basketball. Like the mythological gods of thunder, the Thunder basketballers have become all-powerful.
Oklahoma City's 16-game winning streak has ended with a 111-109 loss to San Antonio in the NBA Cup semifinals.
All in all, the Knicks were able to grab a double-digit win and move to 18-7 on the year. Prior to the season, dozens of analysts league-wide would've had the Thunder and Knicks as a potential NBA Finals matchup, with the two teams projected to be respective No. 1 seeds.
The same conversation followed around Kevin Durant’s and Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors. In 2016, Durant joined a group that lost in the finals after a magical 73-9 regular season. The Warriors won the title in each of the next two years. Yet, some teams still chose to compete with them.
The Thunder are now 24-2, while the Spurs are headed to the championship game in Las Vegas. Here's how the four semifinalists in Las Vegas have found success this season.