The Oklahoma City Thunder's defense, similar to the Detroit Pistons, stands out in the NBA for its robust, physical play, ...

The Thunder, which featured the NBA’s top-rated defense during the regular season, had several things go awry as it attempted to execute the strategy Monday. Of course, Oklahoma City’s harsh ...

By the end of OKC’s 124-94 Game 5 win Wednesday night, the Thunder’s barbaric defense had reduced the Wolves to nothing but a ...

Surely, when Oklahoma City Thunder GM Sam Presti pulled the trigger on the rare ‘one-for-one’ swap of Josh Giddey for Alex Caruso with the Chicago Bulls last summer, this was the sort of playoff ...

The Pacers' desire to push the ball will test the Thunder's trapping defense in the 2025 NBA Finals. John Schuhmann The Pacers are at their best scoring off made baskets, which is a strategy they ...

But the Thunder's matchup versatility on defense should play to its advantage ... Oklahoma City might not immediately employ the same strategy for Julius Randle and Rudy Gobert here, but there's ...

The Thunder’s defense has been suffocating all postseason ... And Rick Carlisle is a genius-level coach who will employ every possible strategy at his disposal. And yet ...

The most important plays of the conference finals are happening nowhere near the basket -- and they're defining the series.

The Thunder defense allowed 3.6 fewer points per 100 ... forcing him to pass early in the shot clock to his teammates. Expect similar strategies designed to force “the others” to generate ...

The Timberwolves are back in the Western Conference Finals but might be bigger underdogs than a year ago. But here are three predictions.