Oklahoma City's Historic NBA Season: A New Dynasty?

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00:00Oklahoma City now becomes one of four NBA teams ever, one of three NBA champs ever,

00:05to win at least 84 total regular season and postseason games in a single NBA campaign.

00:12When you look back on what Oklahoma City accomplished last night, winning that Larry

00:17O'Brien trophy, how will you describe this season for the Thunder? The beginning of a dynasty.

00:24You know, when you look at this team, especially after they got knocked out of the playoffs last

00:28year, you looked at them and they said they had to get a little grit. They had to get a little

00:32toughness. And they went and got that in getting Caruso and Hartenstein to kind of help fortify

00:38the backcourt and the frontcourt. You know, obviously Caruso coming in, bad hitting two

00:43big threes as soon as he got in the game. I think his over three-point props at one and a half at

00:47plus money. Hartenstein struggled a little bit. They ran a couple of pick and rolls, decided to

00:51flip it from the right side to the left side, kind of got him going a little bit and the defensive

00:56force that he was. It's just the beginning, man. And you just look at a team with, you

01:02know, these guys at such a young age and, you know, Chet's got a team option. D'Ang has

01:09a team option. Jalen Williams' team option. Keeson Wallace' team option. Man, they're all

01:14coming back. All of them. And then you have to look at what's coming up the pipe, starting

01:19with that first round of traffic. They got via trade through Miami. So they are a team that

01:26has really arrived. And now they have set the bar. The bar has been set. We thought

01:31it was Boston last year. I know the Tatum injury impacts them. But in the Western Conference,

01:35you got to figure that they are the bar now. And teams have to go up and play them. So

01:40you need to think about when you're a team like Indiana, you need to have big guards.

01:45Like the little guard, 6-1 dynamo backcourt. Like, I don't think Cleveland would be a good

01:50matchup for them if they play the finals next year because Garland and Mitchell are too small.

01:54You need bigger guards to defend. You got to be able to play multiple styles. And you

01:58got to match your defensive intensity, which is increasingly going to be difficult next year.