Shaun Powell

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Part-time golfer, full-time sportswriter, lifetime dad. Find me at https://t.co/uVXQDmBkRt. Still searching for the perfect story to tell. Author of Souled Out.

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Timberwolves-Thunder: 5 takeaways as Oklahoma City advances to the Finals

1 week ago | nba.com | Shaun Powell

Download the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageOKLAHOMA CITY — There was an aggressive double-team on the ball, a steal and subsequently a dunk. Then a blocked shot, which turned into a pair of passes and a jumper in transition. And this was before the energy was elevated — more defense, more shots made followed. This was the sign of a desperate team.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander vs. Nickeil Alexander-Walker: Cousins battle for NBA Finals berth

1 week ago | nba.com | Shaun Powell

OKLAHOMA CITY — When the Western Conference Finals are over and players from the Thunder and Wolves are wishing each other well, no hug will be more meaningful than the two who share the same blood and hyphenated name: Alexander. What they whisper in each other’s ears before walking off the court won’t be captured by intrusive microphones nor deciphered by lip-readers watching at home. It will almost be their own language, meant only for each other. As it should be.
4 ways Thunder can try to slow down Anthony Edwards in Game 4

1 week ago | nba.com | Shaun Powell

MINNEAPOLIS — The league’s top-rated defense confronted the league’s most diverse offensive player for seven playoff games and survived. That’s why the Thunder are in the Western Conference Finals and Nikola Jokić and the Denver Nuggets are not. This is now a different playoff round for OKC and against a different individual threat, but is the challenge of reducing Anthony Edwards’s production altogether different? In some ways, yes. In some ways, not really.
Timberwolves-Thunder: 5 takeaways as Wolves bounce back at home in Game 3 romp

1 week ago | nba.com | Shaun Powell

Download the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageMINNEAPOLIS — What does a 42-point beatdown do for the team that issued the punishment? To the team that was left bloodied? To the state of the Western Conference Finals which has folks flummoxed over the latest result? All good questions, and all will be answered in due time.
Thunder turning belief in bench into playoff advantage

1 week ago | nba.com | Shaun Powell

Download the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageMINNEAPOLIS — The Thunder spent the last seven months setting standards, breaking records, winning 68 games, breezing through the first round of the playoffs and coming up clutch in the second. They’re also shattered something else: The long-held NBA belief that a bench doesn’t matter much in the playoffs.
For Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Kia MVP just another win on the way toward championship goals

2 weeks ago | nba.com | Shaun Powell

• Download the NBA App• 2024-25 NBA Awards: Complete coverage• Kia Most Valuable Player Award: All-time winnersOKLAHOMA CITY — The most recent of the Thunder’s three MVP winners — four if you include James Harden, drafted by this franchise before winning his award in Houston — is thrilled to be part of that very exclusive group.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander cements Oklahoma City as an MVP factory

2 weeks ago | nba.com | Shaun Powell

Download the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageOKLAHOMA CITY — Here in the belly of America, claims to fame are few, yet proudly declared. Like, surely you knew about this region’s massive concentration of petroleum, and we’re not talking jelly. And there’s natural gas, enough to warm a cold heart. Farming? This place produces some produce. And NBA MVP winners?
Nuggets-Thunder: 5 Takeaways as Oklahoma City closes out Denver in Game 7

2 weeks ago | nba.com | Shaun Powell

OKLAHOMA CITY — The basketball education of the Oklahoma City Thunder, a team that sashayed through a breezy regular season, took a steep turn Sunday: Could this young team ace the ultimate playoff test? Matter of fact, yes. And resoundingly so. Game 7 of their Western Conference semifinal with the Denver Nuggets was secured with a resounding 125-85 victory, earning the Thunder some stripes ahead of the Western Conference Finals.
NBA playoffs: What to expect in Thunder-Timberwolves series

2 weeks ago | nba.com | Shaun Powell

Download the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageAll of the traditional franchises are on the golf course or the beach or back to the drawing board. In their place, the Western Conference will be decided by a pair of teams with one combined NBA Finals appearance to their history. Well, they’ll double that number in roughly two weeks.
Thunder-Nuggets: 4 things to watch with reputations, legacies on the line in Game 7

2 weeks ago | nba.com | Shaun Powell

Download the NBA App2025 NBA playoffs scheduleNBA playoffs: Bracket & complete coverageOKLAHOMA CITY – So much is on the line Sunday: Reputations, legacies, financial implications, jobs, promotions and of course, the chance to keep playing into next week. All that because the Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma Thunder couldn’t figure a way to eliminate one another through six games of this intense conference semifinal.