When the Thunder started the 2015-16 season 7-6, or slogged through a stretch of eight losses in 12 games after the All-Star Break, there was a chance to crumble. To divert from the plan. To flinch. Instead, the Thunder doubled down on its principles, bet on the people and ideas within the building, and stretched its wings to rise all the way to the seventh game of the Western Conference Finals, it’s fourth trip to the NBA’s final four in the past six years
Through all of the adversity on the court with untimely injuries to Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, Serge Ibaka, Steven Adams and others, the team re-centered itself in 2015-16 and was ready to play a powerful brand of basketball.