Oklahoma City Thunder 2024-25 NBA Championship Betting
With the duo of general manager Sam Presti and superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the Oklahoma City Thunder has been transformed into one of the elite franchises in professional sports. Oklahoma City dominated the 2024-25 NBA season with the best record in the league. OKC has undergone a remarkable transformation into an impressive rebuild that began during the 2020-21 season. Most important of all from a wagering perspective is that the Thunder made gamblers quite happy with a large profit margin. Under the leadership of head coach Mark Daigneault, the Thunder is a full-court team that controls both ends of the floor.
In the 2025 NBA Playoffs, the Thunder won its first NBA championship in a thrilling seven-game series against the Indiana Pacers.
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The Oklahoma City Thunder had a final regular season record of 68-14 straight up, 55-23-4 against the spread, and 55-36 over/under the total. Oklahoma City was first in the Western Conference playoff standings. The Houston Rockets were 16 games behind the Thunder in the Western Conference playoff race.
Oklahoma City had NBA metrics of 3rd for scoring offense, 7th for field goal percentage, 6th for 3-point field goal percentage, 1st for free throw percentage, and 10th for offensive rebounding. On defense, the Thunder ranked 3rd in scoring defense, 1st in field goal percentage allowed, 1st in 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 22nd in defensive rebounding.
Key Players
PG Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 30.1 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 6.2 assists per game in 2023-24. He is a 3-time NBA All-Star, including this season. Alexander averaged 23.7 or more points per game in the past three seasons. This season, he is averaging 32.7 points and 6.4 assists per game. Alexander was the 11th overall pick of the 2018 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets out of Kentucky.
Head Coach
Mark Daigneault has been the head coach since the 2020 season after serving as an assistant from 2016 through 2020. He was a former assistant and is a disciple of the legendary former Thunder coach, Billy Donovan. Daigneault has a career regular-season record of 211-189. He has led Oklahoma City to the playoffs the past two seasons.
Season-by-Season Record (Last 7)
| SEASON |
GAMES |
WINS |
LOSSES |
FINISH |
PLAYOFFS |
| 2024–25 |
82 |
68 |
14 |
1st, Northwest |
NBA Champions, 4–3 (Pacers) |
| 2023–24 |
82 |
57 |
25 |
1st, Northwest |
Lost in Conference Semifinals, 2–4 (Mavericks) |
| 2022–23 |
82 |
40 |
42 |
3rd, Northwest |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2021–22 |
82 |
24 |
58 |
5th, Northwest |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2020–21 |
72 |
22 |
50 |
5th, Northwest |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2019–20 |
72 |
44 |
28 |
2nd, Northwest |
Lost in First Round, 3–4 (Rockets) |
| 2018–19 |
82 |
49 |
33 |
4th, Northwest |
Lost in First Round, 1–4 (Trail Blazers) |
Oklahoma City Thunder History
Since their relocation to Oklahoma City from Seattle in 2008, the Thunder have consistently been a playoff team. They made the NBA Finals in just their fourth season in Oklahoma, and they made the playoffs in 10 of their first 12 years in their new home.
Whereas most teams that moved from one destination didn’t leave much behind, this franchise left a lot in the rearview mirror, as the Seattle SuperSonics were beloved and had achieved a decent amount of success. The SuperSonics were founded in 1967 and made it to the NBA Finals in 1978 and 1979. In seven games, they lost their first finals appearance to the Washington Bullets, but they won the rematch the following year to claim their first NBA championship.
Seattle was a perennial contender in the 1990s with Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton. The Rain Man and The Glove only made it to the NBA Finals once, but they won 55 games or more for six straight seasons.
Clay Bennett led a consortium that bought the franchise in 2006. Bennett and his group had seen that basketball could work in Oklahoma City after the New Orleans Hornets played in OKC for two years following Hurricane Katrina. The Thunder had two superstars to build around after taking Kevin Durant as No. 2 overall in the 2007 NBA Draft and Russell Westbrook as No. 4 overall in the 2008 NBA Draft.
Oklahoma City was a title contender for a half-decade with Durant and Westbrook. Still, the Thunder gave us one of the biggest What If scenarios in the modern-day NBA after they traded James Harden to the Houston Rockets after the 2012 season. Harden established himself as a future Hall of Famer in Houston, and that move was part of why Durant wanted out of OKC.
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