OKC Thunder are NBA's New VILLAINS?! | Why Lakers Can't Afford to Load Manage | Best NBA Rivalries

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The brand new NBA schedule is out, and the league is making a huge bet on the Oklahoma City Thunder as its next main attraction. We'll explore if OKC is ready to become the NBA's new villains and question the league's questionable choices for its annual Rivalry Week.

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0:00.0	The NBA schedule is out.
0:02.1	Who got too much national TV love?
0:04.2	Who got too little? Does the NBA know their own rivalries? Which game will pack the most drama? Are the OKC Thunder poised to become the next villains of the NBA? I'll ask Madden Hayes all of those questions, plus our favorite things of the week. That's all today on Locked-on NBA.
0:30.0	You are Locked-on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.
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0:38.9	Welcome to Locked-on NBA.
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0:54.4	Use code locked-on-NBA at monarchmoney.com. For 50% off your first year, I'm Doug Branson, host of Lockdown Hornets,
0:59.6	and your shot clock Sherpa guiding you through the NBA's biggest stories every day with the help
1:03.9	of lockdown's local experts. And I have two of the best with me as always to break down the NBA
1:10.1	schedule release from the Locked on Nuggets
1:12.7	podcast. He's a senior NBA writer for the Action Network. It's Matt more. Matt, which fans
1:18.2	should be fuming, which team's fans should be fuming over their team schedule?
1:22.9	Yeah, over at Locked on Nuggets today, I'm going to try and calm down Nuggets fans. They're
1:26.3	tied for the most back-to-backs in the league. They don't have that many games against teams on a back-to-back at home. They've got their tied, I think, for the second most trips in the NBA by flight number. They're going to be pretty twitchy. I'm going to try and calm them down over at Lockdown Nuggets. How about you, Hayes,
1:44.4	from the Lockdown Bulls podcast? He's also
1:46.1	a Bears and Bulls creator for Bleacher Report. Hayes, which team's fans should be fuming over their team's schedule right now? I don't think any team should be fuming because you know why? Because no matter what the schedule is, me, Matt, and Doug are going to be covering it five days a week, so you should be happy.
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