Sundays haven't been kind to the OKC Thunder

The Thunder has played 17 Sunday games this season. The Thunder is 7-10 in those games. On all the days when the Lord did not command us to rest, the Thunder is 48-23.

The Thunder is 5-8 in Sunday home games, which is particularly alarming since a Sunday home game is exactly what the Thunder faces in Game 7 of its Western Conference Semifinal against the Memphis Grizzlies.

In all other home games, the Thunder is 30-4. Thirty and four!

It's enough to make the Thunder wonder if God prefers his teams here in the Bible Belt to refrain from Sunday competition.

“I sure hope God isn't frowning on that, especially tomorrow,” said mega-Thunder fan Chris Lambert, whose wife, the Rev. Wendy Lambert, is an associate pastor at St. Luke's United Methodist Church.

When the Thunder plays on Sunday, “I may rearrange my church schedule, but I don't skip it,” Chris Lambert said.

“With any team other than the Thunder, that might be a concern. But considering Kevin Durant carries a Bible in his backpack, and Eric Maynor was going through ‘The Purpose-Driven Life' earlier this year...

“I tend to see God being concerned about other things than when the Thunder plays.”

Eric Chaffin, a Baptist minister who runs 3:14 Ministries, Inc., said his father, a long-time pastor, “used to jokingly say that they should turn Remington Park into a football stadium, because it's a lot less sinful to play sports on Sunday than to gamble on Saturday.