Wait, the Oklahoma City Thunder are back?! I didn’t think I’d ever see them be competitive again in my lifetime after what the Golden State Warriors did to their franchise years ago.
Recall that back in June of 2018, the Dubs had just romped through the NBA for their third championship and parade party in four years. Along the way there, they broke the will of multiple franchises, using their opponent’s shattered dreams as stained glass for the cathedral of the Golden Empire.
One of those destroyed teams happened to be the Oklahoma City Thunder, who went from an NBA Finals appearance to marooned in a sea of irrelevance after blowing a 3-1 lead in the 2016 Western Conference Finals to the Dubs and losing their best player Kevin Durant to those same goshdarned Warriors.