Tip-off: 6:30pm @ Paycom Center, Oklahoma City | Broadcast: TNT/Local
u26a1Pod Preview: Fresh Legs
Youth and relative inexperience are the two conventional factors working against OKC's title hopes, on paper. But after a season checkered with lengthy and isolated absences, the Thunder are fully healthy (only Nikola Topic and Ousmane Dieng are out for Game 2) and well rested. They won't have as massive an energy advantage against their remaining playoff opponents that they did against Memphis (still down Brandon Clarke and Jaylen Wells) in Game 1, but the Thunder's swarming, hustle-harder edge against older teams should be a consistent feature of the 2025 postseason.