homefree122 | Thunder

274 | 7 hours ago

We’ve been the one seed for 311 straight days going into last season.

Parallel-Quality

116 | 7 hours ago

I believe that the:

Jordan Bulls
Magic Lakers
Bird Celtics
Kobe Lakers
Curry Warriors

Are the only other teams to threepeat as the #1 seed.

Agreeable-Ad-7110

102 | 7 hours ago

Technically Bill Russell’s celtics repeated as the 1 seed 9 times in a row.

HokageEzio | Knicks

41 | 6 hours ago

Decent squad those Celtics.

ruggnuget | Nuggets

14 | 6 hours ago

honestly, i view pre-merger stats with an asterisk. They count, but comparison carries no value.

HokageEzio | Knicks

29 | 6 hours ago

They just had to go against scrubs like Wilt Chamberlain, no big deal.

ruggnuget | Nuggets

13 | 6 hours ago

adults can discuss the nuances of huge stats in an era that does not resemble most of the history of basketball while it was starting out and finding its footing. Great players existed in every era and I bet all of the best players from every era would have been able to exist in any other era with their tech and knowledge. After all, we all stand on the shoulders of giants. But the game was played differently, with different rules, organizations that had many different motivations that were not related to basketball driving their business decisions, coaches and players that did not have a large base to learn from, and frankly, a small enough budget to not attract more potential talent, lost to other sports or just other jobs in general. Guys like Chamberlin or Russell would have been amazing hall of fame pros in any era because they were both freak athletes, incredibly coordinated and smart. But when every single team has a guy with 14+ rebounds a game, maybe the guy averaging 25 has to be looked at a bit different. Like, I have to take that with a grain of salt. The top 28 seasons on rebounds per game were in the 60s. And 29th is Wilts 71-72 season, where he was the anomaly at 19.1 rebounds per game. So ya know what? I am going to take all those 20 rebounds per game season with a grain of salt. Because otherwise we cant appreciate how amazing it was for Dennis Rodman to get 18 rebounds per game for 2 straight seasons and how extreme of an outlier he was. The 60s numbers just wash the record books as a game that was played really differently. So I stand on what I said. The comparison carries no value.

TheColossalX

8 | 5 hours ago

you can appreciate both. wilt got so many rebounds because of the pace of the game being really high then. they were basically running up and down the court chucking shots over and over. with that in mind, it makes sense an athletic phenom like wilt would grab a bunch of boards—because of course he would, there’s a constant stream of shots being made and he was often the biggest body on the floor.

Superplex123 | Lakers

2 | 2 hours ago

The game now is completely different even compared to the 00s. Does that have no value as well? Although one can argue it’s the current era that holds no value.

HokageEzio | Knicks

-7 | 5 hours ago

You can make any arbitrary cutoff in time and say that is what represents basketball while all the stuff before it doesn’t count the same.

After all, we all stand on the shoulders of giants.

So then we shouldn’t dismiss stuff as having an asterisk just because you weren’t alive to see it.

Kindarelevanttoo

15 | 5 hours ago

They really made that long ass post explaining themselves, and you somehow missed their point entirely. Kinda impressive.

HokageEzio | Knicks

0 | 5 hours ago

I didn’t miss the point. I disagree with the point. The concentration of talent on such a small amount of teams makes it more impressive that the Celtics were able to consistently have the best record in the league.

This is not a conversation about comparing rebounds or blocks or anything like that. That is a conversation where we can discuss the rules and how those changes make stat lines more or less impressive. This is a conversation about having the best record in basketball every single year for 9 straight years despite having to play teams with multiple Hall of Famers on them 10 times a year. That is insane no matter the era, and it’s even more insane when Wilt Chamberlain was in your division for a large chunk of those seasons.

ruggnuget | Nuggets

4 | 4 hours ago

No. You didnt understand the point.

theytracemikey | Cavaliers

7 | 6 hours ago

I mean do they count when the entire league is 8 teams lol

honkycronky

2 | 6 hours ago

Nowadays we have 30 teams and 20 are tanking or simply bad. Not as big of a difference as you think tbh.

supalaser | Lakers

8 | 6 hours ago

nah you are speaking out of your ass. The west alone has had like 8+ good teams every year for the past 15 years at least

idkanyusernameshelp

4 | 5 hours ago

Also those tanking teams are still actively competing against you in other ways, just because they aren’t good atm doesn’t stop them from signing your players and winning out over you in draft lotteries. There’s way more competition to be competitive period.

GMoney_McSwag | Bulls

3 | 5 hours ago

We have never once done those things

Boxthor | GSW

1 | 5 hours ago

I’m not exactly sure what happened to the Kings, but I think Chicago has to be at least partly at fault, somehow.

Irvsauce | Jazz

1 | 6 hours ago

Good lord. Bill was just a basketball psycho

Skullduggory | 76ers

3 | 2 hours ago

That’s not what threepeat means

GreedyPride4565

1 | an hour ago

Kobe lakers????

Your__Pal

2 | 6 hours ago

And all they need to do is win game 1 next year to extend that by like 180 straight days.

tripleyothreat

1 | 3 hours ago

nah this is season days i believe

SplitOk186

125 | 7 hours ago

The scariest thing is that last year was probably one of their weaker versions as a playoff team and they won

Even SGA talked about how he felt their level of play dropped off drastically in the playoffs compared to the regular season the fact that they won it all with close to their floor level is terrifying

TheFatmanRises | Heat

60 | 6 hours ago

I for one am excited for SGA Dynasty era

koggle30 | Thunder

15 | 6 hours ago

Ball knower

whatssenguntoagoblin | Alperen Sengun

6 | 5 hours ago

I think the most likely scenario is a Shai dynasty but Wemby and Luka with a Walter checkbook and no $50 million for LeBron will have something to say about that.

balortech

2 | 3 hours ago

I like how Luka always has to have a huge asterisk with any argument involving him just like his entire NBA career basically.

yash217

1 | 37 minutes ago

Sad, but not his fault. The minute he got a competent team he got traded to a flawed one. I hope his career doesn’t turn out to a what-if.

ChessHistory

18 | 5 hours ago

This doesn’t seem to be a surviving narrative but I still think they got saved by the refs against the Pacers

Aniketos33

1 | 3 hours ago

Time will tell

TheMias24 | Suns

3 | 5 hours ago

I’d be more concerned going into the playoffs with how few games JDub has played this year.

charlesokstate | Thunder

2 | 2 hours ago

He’s looked very good. He wasn’t right the first half of the season when he came back which is expected with that injury. But this core has played together all of last year. I think they know how to play together at this point.

tripleyothreat

0 | 3 hours ago

eh. i think it was more a product of refined and planned defenses. a bit of a slump too, but teams obviously planned hard for them in the playoffs.

charlesokstate | Thunder

2 | 2 hours ago

40% shooting dropped to 30% against zone defenses lol. Defense was the same, but there was significant drop in offense.

redwoody86 | Nuggets

1 | 22 minutes ago

Are you referring to 3pt shooting? Last year you were 37.4% in the regular season, 33.8% in the post season.

Per this interesting post, 3pt shooting usually drops off just over 1% point in the post season. So you did drop more than average, but not 10%. Unless I’m misunderstanding your comment.

Your DEF RTG slightly improved during the playoffs, but that post shows them usually dropping, will be interesting to see if that continues

itsnotyellowfever | MEM

54 | 7 hours ago

Also requires you to be the first team in your conference to get a win, which usually requires you to be the defending champion since they play on the first night of the season

mpmar | Thunder

88 | 7 hours ago

For sake of this ‘record’ it’s every day available. If you don’t play until the 2nd or 3rd day you’re still eligible. And all undefeated teams are treated equally. A 3-0 team is tied for first with a 5-0 team.

itsnotyellowfever | MEM

9 | 7 hours ago

Interesting.

I looked back to last season to figure out an exact date for which OKC may not have been the 1 seed, and I came across a Warriors-Thunder game on 11/10/24 where the Warriors won and moved both teams to 8-2.

Obviously Golden State would hold the tiebreaker so unless something else happened at a later date that’s my best guess for the streak breaker.

Junior-Technology-71

5 | 7 hours ago

I think after the golden state game we played a bit of .500 ball since we didn’t have Chet or Hartenstein or Jwill That’s probably when the dubs overtook us

Then afterwards when Ihart got back, we regained the 1 seed until

morefeces | Cavaliers

6 | 2 hours ago

Did the Cavs not do this last year? They started 15-0 and held the 1 seed all year.

hanacker | Japan

1 | 14 minutes ago

Yeah, either they didn’t look at last year or you do actually have to win on opening night.

Professional-Ad-1491 | Grizzlies

43 | 7 hours ago

Very impressive considering they have dealt with a lot of injuries. Other teams have too, but the point stands.

FormalDisastrous2467 | Thunder

10 | 6 hours ago

Top 5 in injury value the last 2 years.

AnkitPancakes | Thunder

19 | 7 hours ago

3 consecutive seasons as the 1 seed

Junior-Technology-71

9 | 7 hours ago

When was OKC not the 1 seed last year… was it like an early season thing when Chet broke his hip?

tortlethetortoise

24 | 7 hours ago

didnt the cavs go crazy last season at the beginning? 15-0 or something right?

tortlethetortoise

20 | 7 hours ago

oh shit im stupid this is conference

Junior-Technology-71

8 | 7 hours ago

But then with that logic, this season we were also below Detroit for about a week during the Shai injury weeks

tortlethetortoise

4 | 7 hours ago

yea mb i forgot this was conference, i just realized

Round_Business_9978

2 | 7 hours ago

Feel free to correct me with the dates, but as far as I remember, Detroit has never had a better record than OKC this year.

tortlethetortoise

3 | 6 hours ago

They did, I don’t know the exact date but around 2 months ago, the thunder lost the bucks and the pistons had a win percentage of .755 while the thunder had a percentage of .750

DragoniteGang | Timberwolves

2 | 6 hours ago

They did right around all star break. I believe Detroit was 41-12 and OKC was like 44-13

RFFF1996 | Thunder

12 | 7 hours ago

Actually cleveland was ahead of us most of the season

Lots of people forget it now but there was talk of them pushing for 70 wins and they still ended with 64 wins

Junior-Technology-71

1 | 7 hours ago

Oh yeah true I forgot mb There was a very intense race between us until Cleveland lost the breaks at the very end

tortlethetortoise

1 | 7 hours ago

cavs arent in the west though

RFFF1996 | Thunder

0 | 7 hours ago

It probably was the first week or somethingh, some other team likely played more games early

Okc started 8-1, then wemt to 11-4 with chet injury but kept the 1st seed west

justFramy | Thunder

2 | 7 hours ago

i believe the warriors had the 1st seed the beginning of the year last year, and that was the last team to be 1st seed in the west

tortlethetortoise

1 | 7 hours ago

yeah, probably

ConorOblast | Thunder

1 | 7 hours ago

They could still end with 66 wins.

geupard12 | OKC

5 | 6 hours ago

No that was about last years Cavs

ConorOblast | Thunder

3 | 6 hours ago

I misunderstood your comment.

isweariwilldoit | Bucks

1 | 4 hours ago

Cleveland doesn’t matter for this

GSW was 12-3 on 11-22-24, OKC was 12-4. GSW lost the next day and OKC took the tiebreaker

itsnotyellowfever | MEM

5 | 7 hours ago

(Updated Comment) On November 10, 2024 the Warriors beat OKC which moved both teams to 8-2 and Golden State was the 1 seed because they had the H2H tiebreaker

Junior-Technology-71

6 | 7 hours ago

Absolute bonkers the last time OKC wasn’t the 1 seed was over 500 days ago

behlat

1 | 7 hours ago

The Cavs were the one seed for a better half of the season last year

tortlethetortoise

3 | 7 hours ago

isnt this based on conference though?

RFFF1996 | Thunder

9 | 7 hours ago

We almost were the 1st seed of the whole league the full year too, detroit took the 1st seed for a couple weeks

GrumbleAlong

5 | 6 hours ago

I heard a stat tonight that the Thunder margin of victory for the past 2 seasons is over 2000 points? Impressive imo, especially with an injury record in the worst 5 of the league.

AppaWizard | Lakers

2 | 6 hours ago

Kobe!

Wafflelisk | Raptors

2 | 6 hours ago

SGA efficiency merchant

wearenotintelligent | Suns

2 | 6 hours ago

Shae butter is a foul merchant without whom they’d be a play in team

charlesokstate | Thunder

0 | 2 hours ago

I think the ceiling is second round exit, but that’s very good considering you’re losing an efficient 30 ppg efficient scorer.

Appropriate-Self-540 | Thunder

1 | 6 hours ago

Stop. It’s just FTs. It doesn’t count.

ianxf7

1 | 5 hours ago

Didn’t the cavs do it last year?

brnccnt7

1 | 4 hours ago

I think the Celtics tied or took over them at one point last year

pikajewijewsyou | Thunder

-2 | 4 hours ago

This is based on conference

chemistrybonanza | Cavaliers

1 | 2 hours ago

Did the Cavs not do it last year? They started off 15-0 and ended up as the 1-seed. At what point were they caught by anyone?

__BRIGLARD | Celtics

1 | an hour ago

The 08 Celtics one seems weird because I remember we started that season on a Friday; last team in the league to play their first game, league was blue-balling the start of the KG era for whatever reason. So someone else had to be 1-0 before we were.

EDIT: Yeah just checked and multiple teams including Toronto were at least 2-0 (Spurs were 3-0) the same night we went 1-0, B-R has us technically .5 behind Toronto in the division at the conclusion of that night.

techgenusantinomy | Thunder

1 | 6 hours ago

It has been a stressful rollercoaster ride of a season with an amazing start, painful stretch in the middle, and a fantastic high to close it out.

We managed to hold the 1 seed, despite our championship starting five only playing 9 games together fully healthy this season. 2nd most injured team in the league this season iirc.

WCF bound and likely NBA finals bound as well as long everyone stays healthy and keep winning. 🙏

MuchAbouAboutNothing | Thunder

1 | 6 hours ago

Compared to the stress of last year’s playoffs this regular season has been a meditation retreat lol

techgenusantinomy | Thunder

-1 | 6 hours ago

Game 5 against Denver and Game 4 against Indy caused all Thunder fans insane levels of stress.

fingerbangchicknwang | Raptors

0 | 5 hours ago

When were the ‘16 Warriors not in first?

axecalibur | CHI

-3 | 6 hours ago

SGA has been the MVP candidate from wire to wire as well. Some other dudes might have better stats, but SGA has been resting in the 4th and has won several games on the final play. NBA needs a most valuable Laker trophy so all the Luka dickriders can stfu.

The Thunder have become the 7th wire to wire 1 seed in post-merger NBA history