After starting the season 0 and 10 on any court other than Chesapeake Energy Arena, it felt like the Oklahoma City Thunder would spend the entire 2017/18 season looking for new and more inventive ways to lose to bad teams on the road. Since then, the Thunder have won 8 of 9 outside the 405 and look to improve upon that on the Talking Stick Arena floor in Phoenix at 7:00 p.m. tonight.
A lot has changed since those early days after Sam Presti added Carmelo Anthony, the final piece of the OKC3. Russell Westbrook has worked off the summer’s “first-baby” fat and is back to terrorizing opposing defensive perimeters.