A busy night in the NBA featured lots of firsts for the season including a fight, a crazy shoot out and plenty of impressive individual performances. Unfortunately, the narrative for the OKC Thunder was a wash, rinse repeat as the club played yet another close game and once again ended up on the losing side.
With Steven Adams out due to a knee contusion, there was ample reason to believe the advantage would fall to the Blazers. That wasn’t the case however, as OKC stayed invested defensively and competed right to the final buzzer.
The irony is while the Thunder are 1-4 this season they could just as easily be 4-1 and aside from the Wizards (although the Rockets might disagree after tonight) the losses came versus elite clubs.