OKC Thunder SHOW FIGHT vs Spurs | Jared McCain TRADE DETAILS | Injury Updates
The Oklahoma City Thunder show remarkable resilience against the San Antonio Spurs, narrowing a massive deficit and pushing the game to clutch time despite being shorthanded. Can OKC’s depth and relentless energy power them through upcoming challenges without stars like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander? Rylan Stiles breaks down Aaron Wiggins and Kenrich Williams’ standout performances, analyzes defensive adjustments, and evaluates how the Thunder kept pace with their sharpshooting from beyond the arc.
Key topics include the official acquisition of Jared McCain, the impact of recent trades, and injury updates for Thunder stars. Rylan Stiles unpacks Sam Presti’s moves at the trade deadline, the long-term upside of McCain, and roster implications heading into matchups with the Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, and Milwaukee Bucks. Stay tuned for insider analysis on how OKC’s evolving lineup could shape the rest of their playoff push.
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Congratulations to all the Spurs fans out there! You officially beat the OKC G league team! You should feel so proud
JWill Just Outplayed Wemby Fam Lol .. I Ain’t Worried About Them Spurs At All Mfs Wet Behind The Ears .. I Pray Before The Playoffs We Can Get A Month Completely Healthy To Hoop With All Our Weapons
I don’t think this series would go seven I think it would be another wolves situation six games max
As a Spurs fan, Props to the Thunder, they won in my opinion just based on sheer effort and that they were mostly unfazed throughout the game. It's annoying the spurs are still playing teams to their level rather than just overwhelming them when they could, definitely something that needs to be addressed before March. To me, I got more confidence in the Thunder easily winning over the Spurs in a play off series just because of maturity and effort alone. The fact you guys got Jared McCain is still insane to me, the scoring he'll provide off the bench is something you guys will definitely need. Hopefully, he gets to stay there long term and develop well.
Wiggs, JWill, & Kenrich are tonight’s MVPs. Brooksy, BC, & Youngblood were non factors. Cason needs offensive work while IJ was just ok. Overall I thought this iteration of the team fought to the last buzzer and I can’t be upset with the effort. Health is literally holding this team back and a game like tonight showed that this team can fight
we won vs the 3rd okc team playing poorly .. nothing we should be proud of. GL for te he rest of the season
We won that game. Spurs fans in every comment bragging about beating an 8 man no starters team just makes it even better. 😂
The sixers traded Isaiah Joe to the Thunder,believed that he was not good enough.He's become one of the best role players in the league.
Imagine what the Okc Thunder will do with Jared Mccain who averaged 22 pts with the sixers before injury?!😂
No sga, chet, j-dub, Ihart, Caruso, Mitchell, and the thunder still put up a fight! Hopefully jwill and Kendrich showed chet wemby may be a good player, but he's nothing to be scared of, be physical with him. Thunder up fellas! When we're fully healthy, no one can stop us.
Im so tired of losing to this mf team
The Thunder own June & November… November Rookie of the Month- 21'22- Josh Giddey.. 22-23- Jalen Williams. 23-24- Chet Holmgren. 24-25- Jared McCain.
I am SO stinking proud of my guys JWill, Wiggs, Caso, Kenny, Zai, all showed so much pure grit and maturity in this extremely difficult situation. I literally had chills and the sting of tears when we closed to within 4. Gave them a private standing O!!!!
The guys should be very proud of themselves like you said there’s no moral victories but in this case, I’ll take one because it is hard for a team to come in down 10 players and even compete much less get close to winning lol especially when the other team is fully healthy or mostly healthy excuse me. I’m impressed. Hopefully, we can still at least a couple of games maybe even three. It’s gonna be tough, but if they come in with the same mindset that they did last night, they can do anything.
Did we watch the same game? Spurs obviously did not take this game seriously. Wemby was just f**king around lol my opinion okc tried their absolute hardest and spurs not at all
Thunder fielded an audition tape for potential trading partners, showcasing players who fill the trade piece conversation. This was their chance to make the cut after we hit apron territory in the summer
Ryan,
Regarding the 3rd trade made yesterday, did you happen to notice that the Mason Plumlee and Balša Koprivica have a history of transactions together.
Most notably the Detroit Pistons traded Mason Plumlee and the 37th pick in the 2021 draft (JT Thor) for the 57th pick in the 2021 draft (Balša Koprivica).
So possibly Detroit wanted to get off of Plumlee's contract, but maybe there was some unusual language regarding either a no trade clause or not being able to waive him for another player.
So why exactly would I come to this absurd conclusion:
IMO: (Less importantOn February 9, 2023 Mason Plumlee was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers. )
Because on June 30, 2023 the Pistons traded the draft rights to the Los Angeles Clippers of Balša Koprivica for $2.1 Million.
Then on July 7, 2023 The LA Clippers resigned Mason Plumlee.
Which brings us to yesterday's trade between the Thunder and Hornets, to bring in Mason Plumlee in exchange for Ousmane Dieng.
Then we hear about this deal by the Thunder for Balša Koprivica's draft rights!
If I were to guess the Thunder obtained Balša Koprivica, prior to obtaining and waiving of Mason Plumlee!
My thoughts are this is all just Thunder GM Sam Presti, doing his due diligence.
What do you think?
If we run across the Spurs in the playoffs (granted we’ll be healthy) it’s no more than a 6 game series and I would lean more towards 5.
I predict okc will go1-3 in their next 4 games and Spurs will go 4-0. At all star break Spurs will be only 2 games behind the thunder Go Spurs Go!
The 8 men that went to the Spurs game made a brave effort. JWill had a triple double. He always show up. KRich and Wiggs did all they could as well. Very proud of them. They still did Thunder defense. They only had 5 contract players and 3 2-ways on board. Also proud of Barnhizer. I was pleasantly surprised at him getting 14 pts. Very disappointed in Joe and Carlson. No offense. They are capable of doing much better.
OKC needs to get rid of JDubs expensive contract. Give Ajay his minutes. They should go after Clippers Zubac to do the same as Hart does. Happy about McCain. Didn't see that coming but love the value. Thunder could rescue Chris Paul or Westbrook for sentimental value. CP3 really got a raw deal.
The Thunder keep missing shots close to the basket like lay-ups. They really need to fine tune their offense with a lot of practice.
What is the forecast on McCain's injury? Will he be out a long time? The Thunder can really use his 3 pt skills.
Finding value in a lose is over rated but putting the burden on players that are role players only makes them better role players. I actually hope shai and Chet don’t play at all until after the break. Just eat the losses. #1 is valuable but being healthy in April is paramount. Let the spurs have their moment even tho it’s hard to hear. Get even went it counts.
JDub getting back is not a good thing for the Thunder. Trade him.
Nothing to take away from this game besides the fact that OKC is soft and sat their whole roster on a nationally televised game
Isaiah Joe’s 2 point game was terrible. Could have won if he showed up at all.
It’d be nice if I Joe just shot the ball more I don’t even care how much he misses Joe needs to just shoot the ball😭
It's hard to be mad about a loss like that…. but freaking Joe, man. Surprisingly, we had a real chance at winning that one and Joe pretty much single handedly let everyone down. I expected 4 or 5 3s from him and 20+ points with all those minutes he got and he only came away with 2! He's one of the most inconsistent shooters in the league, it's been frustrating all season and last night wound up changing my perspective on Joe and how it pertains to retaining him long term.