Can the Thunder Achieve the First NBA Triple Crown?

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Oklahoma City Thunder surge to the top—are they truly in a league of their own? Wes Goldberg, Matt Moore, and Haize weigh in on the Thunder’s historic 23-1 start, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s MVP case, and why analysts believe OKC could achieve the NBA’s “Triple Crown.” The roundtable debates what could stop this powerhouse, dissecting playoff scenarios, coaching X-factors, and statistical dominance. Can anyone slow their march through the NBA Cup and regular season?

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0:00.0	Good afternoon and welcome to Locked on NBA Daily on today's show.
0:03.8	The knockout stage of the NBA Cup begins tonight,
0:06.4	so we make our predictions of who will advance.
0:08.1	Meanwhile, are the thunder in a league of their own,
0:10.4	and do the Pelicans have a new face of the franchise?
0:18.5	You are Locked on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.
0:23.2	Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:30.1	All right, welcome back to Locked-on NBA Daily, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network.
0:34.5	Now the number one sports podcast network.
0:36.6	However you're tuning in on YouTube or on your favorite podcast app, Thanks for making us your first listen every day. Today's episode is brought to you by Fandual. If you want to be right in the middle of the action this season, visit fanduel.com. Place your NFL live bets all season long. I'm Wes Goldberg today. We're talking about the thunder positioning themselves for something we've never seen before an NBA history and why the future might be brighter than you think in New Orleans and we're doing it with the help of lockdown's local experts. And I have two of the best with me as always from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast. He's a senior NBA writer for the Action Network. It's Matt Moore, Matt. It's World Beef, birthday. If you don't know who that is, go read any number of books, including Loose Balls, is a great one about the ABA.
1:15.8	But yeah, happy birthday to World Be Free.
1:19.3	Books.
1:20.4	People even read those anymore from the Lockdown Bulls podcast.
1:23.3	He's also a Bears and Bulls creator for Bleacher Report.
1:25.3	It's Hayes.
1:26.2	It's time to talk about West's favorite thing to discuss. That's the NBA Cup. Let's get into it. Okay. Well, we might as well just start there. It is the knockout stage of the NBA Cup tonight. Heat at Magic, Knicks at Raptors for the two Eastern Conference games. And then tomorrow it's the Western Conference's turn,
1:45.3	suns at Thunder,
1:46.5	and then Spurs at Lakers.
1:48.8	Yes, we did make our picks for the four games.
1:53.3	So let's just start with tonight's games, I guess.
1:55.2	Matt.
1:56.2	NBA Cup fan, Matt Moore, who do you got?
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