The Western Conference is looking surprisingly top-heavy to start the 2025-26 season. It's beginning to look like the NBA version of capitalism, with the 1% getting richer at the expense of the rest, as six West teams currently have fewer than 10 wins.
In NBA terms, that 1% is the Oklahoma City Thunder, who now have an absurd 24-1 record.
The Thunder have a +17.4 point differential and an active 16-game winning streak. It would be a 25-game winning streak, and we'd be having the conversation of whether they can break the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers record of 33 consecutive wins; that is, had the Portland Trail Blazers not defeated them on Nov.