Odds of tying 14 straight times is 1 in 4,782,969

Thats a 0.0000209% chance 🤯pic.twitter.com/2NAkoZBUj4

— Taylor Snow (@taylorcsnow) February 26, 2026

“The Joker” pic.twitter.com/NcfmLeRbzW

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) February 28, 2026

本日のOKCのダーティープレーまとめ

・ヨキッチを転倒させるジェイリン
・マレーへ目潰しするハーテンシュタイン
・フロップ失敗してボールを投げつけるSGA
ドートは言うまでもないが、Jwillもあらゆるチームに喧嘩売って乱闘仕掛けていて終わってる

ジャズやペイサーズのタンク取締りよりOKCが先 pic.twitter.com/o1b5dIU2OQ

— pet (@pet80213149) February 28, 2026

Thunder are a bunch of foul baiting dirty *****es.

I'm seeing more negative opinions on the Dort ejection than I expected, even from non-Thunder beat writers (which I expect at this point). Reputation has to matter eventually, and this from @RADeMita is just a small sample of the stuff he does that often goes unnoticed pic.twitter.com/QHbm606qLX

— Josh Paredes (@Josh810) February 28, 2026

"I couldn't let it go"

Charles Barkley tells the full story of the time he threw a mf through a glass window. I had no idea that he was with Clyde Drexler. Watch til the end - the last line is vintage Chuck pic.twitter.com/U233IlcLGx

— Apex Jones (@ApexJones22) February 28, 2026

LEBRON JAMES DREAMSHAKE 🔥 pic.twitter.com/th2GHpxJcN

— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) March 1, 2026

When your girl is venting about her coworkers, but you know she’s the actual problem

pic.twitter.com/c4ZpdPwseu

— DJ R-Tistic (@DJRTistic) March 2, 2026

Trae Young EJECTED for running on the court 😳

He still hasn't played a game for the Wizards yet 😅 pic.twitter.com/MFfK2ZrtDS

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) March 3, 2026

Trae Young got ejected from a game before ever playing for the Wizards

Stick to solitaire Stephen pic.twitter.com/1hBtJThJdx

— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) March 3, 2026

Jared McCain tonight vs. the Chicago Bulls:

20 PTS
3 REB
1 AST
66.7% True Shooting %
4/9 3P FG 2 STL

3rd 20+ point game in OKC.
8th (out of 11) 10+ point game in OKC. pic.twitter.com/o2XDva3Eus

— Thunder Film Room (@ThunderFilmRoom) March 4, 2026

The McCain trade might end up saving the one seed for OKC. With SGA, Jdub and Ajay all missing for extended stretches, playmaking was sorely lacking. McCain has filled in nicely.

Brother, if Denver/Minnesota keep that 4/5 slot, you can have the 1st seed.

That's the draw I do not want. Would be hoping MIN-DEN slug eachother into oblivion like DEN-LAC last year.

Only question I have about this draw is: Will it be Dillon Brooks or Draymond Green that cheap shots Wemby into an injury in the first round?

Crazy tanking stat: the bottom 10 teams in the NBA are on a collective 40-game losing streak. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/hnV9WC1Za2

— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) March 4, 2026

David Fizdale says the Knicks gave him a roster with Tim Hardaway Jr. and Enes Kanter as his best players and told him to tank for Zion or Ja, while assuring him they were guaranteed to land KD and Kyrie

(🎥 @RunItBackFDTV / h/t @NBA_NewYork )

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— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) March 4, 2026

Refs don't want to call SGA with the 3rd foul in the 1st quarter.

SGA made the basket, Mike Brown got a technical because the refs ****ed up.

Thunder won by 3. This play was basically the difference in the game.

The refs did NOT want SGA to pick up his 3rd foul and Mike Brown was HEATED 😳 pic.twitter.com/h7LVf7o6On

— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) March 5, 2026

Mike Brown CALLED OUT SGA after the loss 😳

"He does a great job of convincing the referees better than anybody in the league that he's getting hit." pic.twitter.com/2C8qgz2Z6k

— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) March 5, 2026

Brunson would have been more likely to get that call if he didn't flop on the floor 100 times per game.

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Brunson would have been more likely to get that call if he didn't flop on the floor 100 times per game.

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While true... we've all see SGA play.

This is a flop pic.twitter.com/uA53YM6ovp

— will jones ⚒️ (@Will_d_jones) March 5, 2026

But even without Brunson's flopping, SGA went directly through his chest.

In all seriousness, arguing about fouls and foul narratives is very uninteresting to me. So I don't usually respond to your Thunder-related posts on here. There's 100 calls made every game, most of them are proper calls that we don't talk about. Inevitably the refs miss a few.

Rooting interest is the most accurate predictor of whether fans see a marginal call as a bad call or a proper call. Twitter algos are loaded with confirmation bias that can lead fans to think certain teams are receiving an epidemic of favorable or unfavorable calls. My feed looks very different than yours. And that's ok.

For every SGA flail, I can post a Jokic flail. Or a Brunson flop. Or a Lebron flop. For every "dirty" Lu play, I can post 10 other dirty plays around the league. It's all very boring to me and something I have zero interest in arguing about. Granted a six month regular season is alot of time to kill haha.

The Thunder are in the spotlight right now and I totally get it. They're on top. Alot of fans don't like them. They stole (and ate) alot of cake last year. Opposing players/coaches use officiating as an attack vector against them. As well they should. It's a competition.

Chris Finch or Mike Brown voicing an opinion doesn't prove or disprove a narrative. They're professionals doing a job of trying to give their teams the best chance to win.

To me, basketball is much more fun to observe through the lens of matchups and strategy. As frustrating as it's been to watch OKC at times this year, I've enjoyed watching them patch it together personnel-wise. It's forced them to make a few strategic pivots that I think will be helpful for them in the playoffs.

They've made their money the last few years on dominating turnovers and points off turnovers. Those margins have slipped this year and the league as a whole has 1) wised up and 2) gotten better (going b2b is very difficult in today's NBA). It's made it harder to justify playing guys who excel in forcing turnovers at the expense of guys who can create/score/shoot. I think/hope we see more of McCain/Ajay/Joe down the stretch, even if it means fewer minutes for Cason, Dort and Caruso.

I watched most of the game last night. To me the most interesting things were:

1) The Thunder/SGA trying to figure out how to move the ball in crunch time when SGA is getting doubled. Obviously this is something they will face in the playoffs. Losing Lu next year will be such an addition by subtraction in this department. It's so frustrating to watch defenses leave him, the ball rotates to him, someone closes out on him, then he tries to drive and kick (which he SUCKS at). It's the classic fan experience of "Lu, no, no, no, no" --> turnover lol. Daig is insistent on him being in the closing five though. Whatever.

2) Hartenstein might be out again. If he's not right in the playoffs, the Thunder aren't going to win the title. IMO the Thunder can win a title without Jdub, but they can't win without Hartenstein. They need his beef and paint presence.

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In all seriousness, arguing about fouls and foul narratives is very uninteresting to me. So I don't usually respond to your Thunder-related posts on here.

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Yeah, you usually go with the passive aggressive pathway.

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Rooting interest is the most accurate predictor of whether fans see a marginal call as a bad call or a proper call.

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Not really, but it certainly influences. We all see good and bad calls that have nothing at all to do with our rooting interest.

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For every SGA flail, I can post a Jokic flail. Or a Brunson flop. Or a Lebron flop.

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This is whataboutism at its finest, and all of them are a scourge on the NBA and all should be given technicals, fines and ultimately suspensions for their antics that are in direct opposition to good sportsmanship and ethical basketball. All of them are awful.

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For every "dirty" Lu play, I can post 10 other dirty plays around the league.

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It is amazing that OKC fans can't bring themselves to say Dort's play on Jokic was dirty when Dort himself said he crossed the line. If you don't care that he has no problem deliberately doing dangerous things with a high likelihood of injuring other players, that's fine. But the entirety of the rest of the league and all fandoms - INCLUDING DORT HIMSELF - will call it what it is.

This is how Lu Dort is allowed to play basketball, then they don’t let defenders get near Shai.

NBA is a joke 🤡🤡pic.twitter.com/CzQ6sun7nu

— HeroOfTheDay (@Hero_OfThe_Day) February 28, 2026

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The Thunder are in the spotlight right now and I totally get it. They're on top. Alot of fans don't like them. They stole (and ate) alot of cake last year.

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This isn't it, this is a deflection. People were saying the same thing about Dort and SGA years ago. It has nothing to do with success and everything to do with their actions.

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Chris Finch or Mike Brown voicing an opinion doesn't prove or disprove a narrative. They're professionals doing a job of trying to give their teams the best chance to win.

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We don't need their words and no one is relying on their words. We can all use our own eyes.

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To me, basketball is much more fun to observe through the lens of matchups and strategy. As frustrating as it's been to watch OKC at times this year, I've enjoyed watching them patch it together personnel-wise. It's forced them to make a few strategic pivots that I think will be helpful for them in the playoffs.

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What is not fun for most fans is when instead of focusing on basketball strategy, teams and players focus on exploiting weaknesses in officiating. What SGA does is just a continuation of what James Harden did in Houston and Harden was hated for the same thing. It wasn't because Harden won a lot of rings or was really successful. It was because Harden was actively working to trick and exploit the refs rather than focus on matchups and strategy. The OKC defense is somewhat similar in their hacking method that you see going off the belief that the refs won't call everything, if they do, they will naturally try to give makeup calls, refs (and the league) tend to want fewer FTs and stoppages, and the Thunder have significantly more depth so even if guys get in foul trouble, they have another man up. I think gameplanning to exploit the refs is repugnant (goes for LeBron, Jokic, Brunson too).

But I get that OKC fandom is an echo chamber. Just like the Rockets fandom was when they worshipped the ground that Harden walked on, even though what he did and really pioneered with the arm hook was the exact same thing that SGA copies now. Fans of all teams hated it then and hate it now.

The bigger thing is that OKC and SGA and Dort have all the talent to just match up and play ball and win. But they still lower themselves to this type of bull***** Fans hate it. It isn't just teams that are involved. It is league wide. But sometimes you can't see that when you are in your little algo echochamber.

TOO CLEAN 🧼 https://t.co/1n6IuuKQlk pic.twitter.com/oY5vsNH10j

— Washington Wizards (@WashWizards) March 6, 2026

Trae is back for Washington... as they lose to the Jazz.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Phoenix Suns' Dillon Brooks was arrested for DUI in Scottsdale.

Details: https://t.co/7T3hlRFggy pic.twitter.com/WZ6yyaAEUR

— TMZ (@TMZ) March 6, 2026

LaMelo had him lost 🌎 pic.twitter.com/INW6pJOZSq

— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) March 7, 2026

Ben Simmons has been more available than Joel Embiid in the last 2 years pic.twitter.com/OsXKm6THuQ

— Onyx (@OnyxOdds) March 8, 2026

Marcus Smart broke Doris Burke’s mic 🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/bDKfevi16b

— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) March 8, 2026

Greatest thing Marcus Smart has done in his career.

The Rockets have no chance this year - and it’s because Alperen Sengun’s defense pic.twitter.com/pCRkw08gTw

— MD (@mike_daddino) March 9, 2026