By now you know the sordid fourth-quarter statistic: the Thunder has lost 10 games this season in which it led after three quarters. The only NBA team with more such dubious defeats is the Philadelphia 76ers.
You do not want to be on a list with the Sixers.
Ten losses is half the Thunder’s season total. Four of those 10 losses have come since the All-Star Game. OKC is 2-6 since the all-star break, a miserable slump that ranks as perhaps the Thunder’s worst stretch other than Year 1 and the Egyptian Plague season a year ago.