Oklahoma City Thunder has been a conference rival of Spurs for several years. I heard about there are too many same things between Spurs and Thunder. Their cities are small, their cities have just one big league team, their fans had a lot of passion to their team, they had a lot of successful seasons in past few years. Even Sam Presti who is the GM of Thunder was former Spurs' front office member.
If I told you San Antonio is small, I'm wrong. OKC is the most boring city I've been in this road trip. San Antonio has wonderful riverwalk and The Alamo, but OKC has nothing.
I doubt Chesapeake Energy Arena is the most interesting place in the city.
Kevin Durant left Thunder at 2016, and Russell Westbrook carried this team leading Thunder into the playoffs. Thunder's GM Sam made a great trade that acquired Paul George from Indiana Pacers. This fan wore Thunder's hat and Paul George's jersey, but this jersey is Pacers.
I don't like the video, but I like the introduction.
Thunder is very similar with Spurs. They both com from small cities, they both don't have enough resources, their superstars were drafted, their fans show a lot passions in the games, guest teams are very difficult to defeat them in their home arena, and the most important thing is they had super good grades in past 10 years.
Thunder has three superstars in this season, Russell Westbrook, Paul George, and Carmelo Anthony. ESPN's preseaon prediction showed they would be the huge competitor in western conference champions, but played awful when season started. There was no chemistry between Russell Westbrook and new members, and they had a very rough season. They played a lot of terrible games against those ok teams just like Miami HEAT we watched.
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