Thunder Rumblings

As Charles Barkley remains steadfast in his criticism of the Thunder, one obvious question remains: If OKC has such little hope of winning a championship, how does it keep winning so many games? With Thursday night’s 105-102 victory at Orlando, the Thunder has the best...

Power Lunch Chat with NBA writer John Rohde

Nuggets from my notebook from Wednesday’s win at Philadelphia. This was a tough, tough win by the Thunder. And you figured it would have to be. The Sixers are an extremely good defensive team that likes to slow the game down, grind it out and make teams work for everything. And we all know...

Nuggets from my notebook from Thursday’s win at Orlando. I’m not sure what happened here tonight. All I know is the Thunder was dead in the water, staring at an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit one second and then had the lead the next. This was one of the most amazing victories in Thunder...

As first reported in The Oklahoman, Kevin Durant recently signed on as an endorser of Sprint. It’s one of three new sponsorships the Thunder forward has added to his expanding portfolio. And the telecommunications company already has thrown KD out there as a pitchman. Here is Durant’s...

The second half of the season is upon us. With All-Star Weekend in the rearview mirror, the Thunder will now embark on its final 32 games of the regular season starting Wednesday at Philadelphia. Already sitting atop the Western Conference standings at 27-7, the Thunder has enjoyed some pretty...

OKC Thunder Power Lunch Chat with Thunder writer Darnell Mayberry

A bunch of random thoughts and observations from three days in Orlando. Russell Westbrook was one of two people who became the first to welcome me to Orlando. Take a look for yourself.Kevin Durant nearly ruled the weekend. He narrowly lost a tiebreaker shootout to Kevin Love in the 3-point...

ORLANDO — Scott Brooks is not a yeller. He doesn’t subscribe to screaming at his players or cursing them for every miscue. At times, it may look like Brooks is too easygoing, too laid back, too player-friendly. But the Thunder’s biggest star, Kevin Durant, says that’s not the case....

For 2½ hours Thursday night, every non-Lakers fan in a sellout crowd of 18,203 at Chesapeake Energy Arena seemed to boo superstar Kobe Bryant. Roughly an hour after the  Thunder’s 100-85 victory and well past local newspaper deadlines, Bryant showed OKC far more respect than he had...

Nuggets from my notebook from Thursday’s win over the Lakers. Tons of credit goes to Serge Ibaka, Kendrick Perkins and Nazr Mohammed for the job they did on Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum. That Lakers duo has been a perennial pest to the Thunder, but the way the bigs bodied them up and made them...

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Nuggets from my notebook from Wednesday’s win over Boston. Welcome back, Daequan Cook. You were sorely missed. Cook made 5-of-11 shots tonight went 3-of-8 from deep to match his season high of 17 points. His first 3-ball that dropped was only his second in the past five games. And when he...

Skip Bayless was at it again this morning. The renowned talking head on ESPN2′s First Take continued his personal campaign against all things Russell Westbrook, ignoring last night’s gritty win by the tough-minded Thunder and instead focusing more on how the team’s All-Star point guard...

          When Sunday night’s historic game at Chesapeake Energy Arena finally was over, a safe assumption quickly was confirmed as fact: No team in NBA history had ever had a player score 50-plus, another player score 40-plus and a third player...

The inside of the Thunder’s locker room an hour before Monday’s game against New Orleans looked like a battlefield. Eric Maynor’s right leg was attached to some rehabilitation machine. James Harden’s left ankle was fixed to simulated ice. Nick Collison and Lazar Hayward weren’t...

Nuggets from my notebook from Sunday’s win over the Nuggets. It took Kevin Durant 4 1/2 years to record his first 50-point game. It’s going to take some time for that to sink in for me.The story in this one was the Thunder did something no other team in NBA history has ever done. That is...

Nuggets from my notebook from Monday’s win over New Orleans. James Harden missed this one with an ankle sprain. He rolled it in Sunday’s game. Nick Collison also was out because of a quad contusion. Without them, and considering it was the second night of a back-to-back that just happened...

OKC Thunder Power Lunch Chat with Darnell Mayberry

We asked Kevin Durant to share his most memorable big-time shots. Here are a few clips of the ones he noted. Tell us which ones were your favorites, what you remember about them and perhaps which shots you remember that weren’t included here. Enjoy. Dec. 29, 2011 against Dallas Jan. 22,...