Good News: The Thunder are Featured on ESPN Bad News: It's for This

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It's an ESPN link to a running record of the worst teams in NBA history. On the list, our beloved Oklahoma City Thunder.

"This isn't exactly what the folks in Oklahoma City had in mind."

Really doctor? I'm guessing this won't be printed on any of those gameday programs the Thunder hand out and it probably won't be made into a t-shirt.

I do hope the team sees it though. Not because they should be ashamed of themselves or because the good people of Oklahoma City deserve better or any of that. I hope they see it because it's bullshit that ESPN's making a mockery of them and it should light a fire under their collective asses.

The good news is with Scotty Brooks at the helm the team is improving. They really could play themselves off this list. 16 wins will do it. 14 more out of 62. This seems so doable.

You can look back already this season and find a slew of coulda-woulda-shoulda's on the schedule. The Timberwolves a few nights back, the Phoenix game before that. Last night in Charlotte.

It's like in golf where you tally up your strokes at the end of the round and it comes back 92 or 102 or whatever. Then you think back to the 3-putts, the brain-farts, the lost balls and you realize how close you really were. Focus, concentration and pride. That's the difference. OK, probably a lot of skill and a little luck helps too.

For the Thunder, as the Charlotte game proved, it's free throws, rebounds and turnovers. Focus, concentration and pride.

The Thunder can do this. They have the skill. They are gym rats from the Head Coach to the superstar. And they are thisclose.