The OKC Thunder will play their first home game in front of fans in three weeks when the team welcomes the Hornets to the Paycom Center. This will be the first time since March 2020 that fans will enter the stadium and have a chance to watch their hometown team.
Last year, then called the Chesapeake Energy Arena, was a fan-less environment for all 72-games of the 2020-21 pandemic season. A year in which the team went 22-50 under first-year coach Mark Daigneault but saw Shai Gilgeous-Alexander turn into a star, Lu Dort find some offensive momentum and the NBA Twitter Star Aleksej Pokusevski rise to fame.