Do Oklahoma City Thunder NEED To Win NOW Before San Antonio Spurs DOMINATE?

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Oklahoma City Thunder face rising expectations as contenders to repeat as NBA champions, but is the real pressure shifting somewhere else in a league where title opportunities can disappear quickly? Wes Goldberg, Matt Moore, and Haize discuss the Thunder’s postseason prospects, upcoming roster decisions and why teams like the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves might be under even more scrutiny this season. Lively debates break out over Victor Wembanyama’s late MVP push, the need for a perimeter Defensive Player of the Year award, and the evolving Western Conference hierarchy. Plus, the surging Houston Rockets’ playoff hopes, Charlotte Hornets’ incredible turnaround, and a deep dive into anticipated matchups like Lakers vs. Thunder.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Locked-on NBA Daily. The thunder are the favorites to repeat as champions, but did they also face the most pressure. Meanwhile, we'll talk about an idea for a new end-of-season award, and we'll find out which team has had the biggest turnaround since last season. Locked-on NBA Daily starts now.
0:26.5	You are Locked-on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.
0:31.3	Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:35.9	Hello and welcome back to Locked-on NBA Daily.
0:36.7	I'm Wes Goldberg.
0:38.3	That's Matt Moore and Hayes. We got a great show for you today.
0:40.0	We're playing Make It Take It in the next segment.
0:41.9	We're going to be talking about an MVP race that could come down to the last game of the season.
0:45.9	And while we may have written off a certain Western conference team a little bit too early.
0:50.7	But guys, I want to start with this idea proposed on Locked on Thunder
0:54.8	that OKC is under pressure to repeat this season, maybe the most pressure to repeat this
1:01.1	season, given how much parity there's been in the league, no repeat champion since 2018.
1:07.2	Here's more from Locked on Thunder.
1:08.8	Yeah, you know, whenever I think about this season, I think that inherently there is pressure on this team, given how talented they are.
1:17.4	And given they've won 60 games, they're the best two in basketball.
1:21.0	And whenever you have a team like this, you always have to feel some sort of pressure to win it, considering how good you are, to capitalize on this year's team. And then there is some pressure of, they're going to have to make tough decisions this summertime. You're looking at Lou Dort. You're looking at Isaiah Hartinstein. And the questions that they have to answer to the summertime, we don't know how dramatic of a change that there will be, Brandon,
1:44.7	but we do know there will be a change.
1:46.3	They're not going to bring back 99% of the roster like they did a year ago,
1:50.8	heading into next season.
1:52.2	So this is kind of like the last hurrah of this team,
1:56.8	of this core who's won a championship in Oklahoma City.
2:00.1	And so that creates some pressure for this team.
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