Let us now speak of the world champion Oklahoma City Thunder the first time in franchise history.

That sentence has been able to be uttered.

You thought it was coming many a time in previous iterations to the team.

And now the Oklahoma City Thunder are world champions to talk about their title defense is Joe Mazzato of the Oklahoma

making his third consecutive appearance on this show. I think the fact that you started coming on here

mostly responsible for the thunderous meteoric rise in those three years, do you think?

Yeah, I started covering the thunder in the in the depths of rebuild, and I've seen it all the way through.

So it's good to be back here for the third time.

Yeah, well, and I'm sorry to tear you away from football season in Oklahoma to talk about a real sport.

I know that's difficult for...

Happy to do it.

And a team that might actually win something this year too.

Actually, I have no idea how good Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are, uh, this year.

But I guess where I wanted to start with you for this team is going back to last year.

I, I normally we like to just kind of stick to the nuts and bolts, but this, of course, is a

market and a team that's been through a lot with this group and teams that were supposed to

win it and various departures and then building this team back up.

What was the mood like?

What did it feel like in Oklahoma City when this team finally won it?

Yeah, I mean, it was it was euphoria, Nate, and just, you know, I was born and raised

in Oklahoma City.

Obviously, the team comes in 2008.

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