Got all that? Good. As the Thunder have neither paid the tax nor gone above the second apron yet, this means they are still four taxpaying seasons away from the repeater penalty and three second apron seasons away from seeing a first-round pick drop to No. 30 overall. This begs the question of when that cycle will actually start for them.

Fresh off an NBA championship, the Oklahoma City Thunder get to afford the rare luxury of a blue-chip prospect headlining their Summer League squad. Nikola Topic has finally suited up after sitting out last year due to a torn ACL. He went No. 12 in the 2024 NBA draft.

The NBA announced the groups for the Emirates NBA Cup 2025, the league's annual in-season tournament, on Wednesday, July 9.

I think that's one of the best qualities of our team — and the fact that he's kind of naturally aligned with that is pretty cool.” Pre-order our new book on Thunder's run to NBA title More: OKC Thunder unveils which assistants will coach NBA Summer ...

Sam Presti put Oklahoma City's first NBA championship team together in an unconventional way. The Thunder general manager didn’t make any splashy trades or break the bank in free agency.

Fort Smith will welcome former local high school basketball standouts and current NBA champions Jaylin Williams and Isaiah Joe back to the city July 24 with a parade and a party. The event will celebrate the pair and their Oklahoma Thunder basketball team winning the NBA championship last month against the Indiana Pacers.

Those periods of equitably distributing the titles were the exceptions for most of the NBA’s first 70 years. The Lakers and the Celtics were the first two dynasties, claiming 27 of the first 41 championships (65.6%). Ten years later, with the Chicago Bulls’ pair of three-peats included, it was 33 of 51 (64.7%).

Mark Daigneault on Saturday shared who will be coaching the Thunder in summer league. Just about every Thunder assistant has served a stint as a summer league head coach.

During his time suiting up for the Thunder, McGary wore only jersey No. 33 and put up 4.4 points and 3.5 rebounds per game.