Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz discuss OKC’s historic start to their season which continued when they defeated Phoenix Suns to advance to the NBA Cup semifinals. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.
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OKC wins 138 to 89, and dare I say, the game wasnt even that close.
The Oklahoma City Thunder just absolutely clapped the Phoenix Suns.
And let me be an old man for a second.
Just grant me the grace of being that old man This shows who I am.
I watched the Bulls, uh, Historic team when I was a kid.
I watched all of that while we all, Society was mesmerized.
Mesmerized by how good Jordan and Pippen And Rodman looked.
And you just thought, man, Nobody could ever stop him.
I remember OKC or I remember Golden State.
A few years ago, and what that season looked like, that didn’t end in a championship.
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And I watched OKC last night, and I just sat there on my couch and said, This is better.
This is better than any of that.
This is the best basketball I’ve ever seen.
This is the best team.
I’ve ever seen.
This is the most dominant team I’ve seen.
Look, let me make this very clear.
Oklahoma City is so good that, for example, Let’s say the Bucks call OKC and say, “Come on, why dont you guys add Giannis?”
OKC should just hang up the phone and laugh.
They don’t need anything.
They don’t need anyone’s help.
They dont need an extra superstar.
They are going to go, barring injury.
Shatter the all-time wins record this year.
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They’re going to shatter and destroy each team throughout the playoffs.
And they are going to make history before our eyes.
Every single time we get to watch this team, Caroline, it is a gift because I don’t just I think this is the best team this year.
This is the best team of all time.
So just get used to watching them kick butt.
Because they make it look easy.
This is the kind of team that, when your team inevitably gets beatand beat pretty badly by Them, I feel like you just have to laugh because it’s comical.
They are so good and so dominant.
It’s almost comical.
And to your point, I believe they will shatter that record, because for Oklahoma City to To just match that record, they’ll have to go 498.
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To cover the rest of the course of the season.
Doesn’t that seem, after going 24-1, like pretty easy?
Like child’s play?
You see the way the matchups go there.
OKC will take on San Antonio.
Orlando will take on the Knicks as the Cup continues in Vegas.
Which will give us more chaos.