Rylan Stiles

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The Athletic NBA Daily · Thunder Season Preview · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

I think so, but it will be interesting to see how they could get there.

It's pretty boxed in.

I think that the floor for this team is going back to the Western Conference Finals.

You you look around the West and some teams have made interesting moves.

Uh, some teams have repositioned themselves uh to get to where they need to be uh later on in their rebuild.

But in terms of closing the gap, there there was an obvious gap last year between Oklahoma City and San Antonio.

I mean, the three seed was ten games back, and then the Thunder waltzed their way to the Western

Conference finals and for the Spurs being in their first ever playoff run, they classify it as waltzing their way to the Western Conference Finals too.

And nobody has done anything to change that.

And if these teams are healthy, which we can't predict injuries in August, like these two teams should be back in the Western Conference Finals, and that should be the bare minimum for Oklahoma City.

And the ceiling should be winning the NBA championship.

So it has to be uh ending in late May uh and late June.

Oh gosh.

I mean I I mean honest to goodness that they're just it would be shocking to see them do it if anyone not named San Antonio, but maybe maybe if Denver had h a healthy starting five and played the starting five thirty nine minutes i in each game and they somehow pulled that off.

Um, I I just I don't know that Minnesota can do it.

I don't know that uh LA especially can do it.

Like I think that those two teams have made interesting moves.

I don't think that they've gotten to the level of competition that Oklahoma City and San Antonio would be at.

So I would go with those guys.

I I I think that Houston's defense could be interesting.

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