The 2025-26 NBA season is already over a quarter of the way over and the Oklahoma City Thunder are once again overwhelming favorites to win the league title after their history-making start to the year.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Co. have already shown that they are the top contenders to win the NBA championship in 2026 after winning 24 of their first 25 games in a highly competitive Western Conference.
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The Oklahoma City Thunder have been so good that they have equalled the NBA record to start a season of 24-1 through 25 games that the Golden State Warriors originally set during the 2015-16 campaign when Steph Curry, Klay Thompson.
The best 25-game starts in NBA history:
⚡'25-26 OKC THUNDER 24-1
🔥'15-16 Golden State Warriors 24-1 pic.twitter.com/RgrqtzARQM
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) December 11, 2025
That season, the Warriors went on to win 73 regular season games before shockingly losing to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals.
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Meanwhile, the Oklahoma City Thunder are aiming to pull over a similar regular season feat but with a better postseason ending given how dominant they have been so far in 2025. Gilgeous-Alexander has averaged over 30 points per game without even needing to appear in the fourth quarter of most games because the Thunder have been up by so many points.
SGA is one of the NBA favorites to win the MVP award this year all while the Thunder prepare to have three more first-round picks in the 2026 NBA Draft to further bolster their talented roster.
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