Westbrook averaged 11.7 points a night for Denver this postseason but shot just 39.1%. His hand may have impacted that.

Westbrook reached the playoffs in nine of his 11 seasons with the Thunder, making four Western Conference finals appearances alongside Durant. Oklahoma City reached the NBA Finals with Durant, ...

Russell Westbrook comes off his 17th NBA season, one in which he served as a solid playmaker for the Denver Nuggets. The UCLA legend underwent surgery on his r ...

If the Oklahoma City Thunder complete their title run this season, Kendrick Perkins says Shai Gilgeous-Alexander won’t just ...

It was a rare crack by Gilgeous-Alexander. The usually stoic MVP winner seldom shows his emotions on his sleeve. Whether with ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder became the NBA’s most dominant team this season by laying waste to conventional wisdom.

The Oklahoma City Thunder will soon play for a title after working their way through the gauntlet of the Western Conference ...

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Follow the NBA — or anything, really — for too long, and your brain gets sentenced to myopia. You think about the game one way, honoring outworn rules and traditions and beliefs, shunning innovation ...

We haven't even tipped off the 2025 NBA Finals, and the playoffs have already given us several weeks of eye-popping ...

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander just took the Thunder to the 2025 NBA Finals and is now being called the 'savior of the NBA' by a ...

The OKC Thunder advanced to the NBA Finals on Wednesday with a Game 5 home win over the Minnesota Timberwolves.