CLIP: Why the OKC Thunder are a LOCK to Win More Than 60 Games
RealGM Radio
September 11, 2026
Wes and Mike make their over/under picks for the Western Conference and talk about why they are both taking the over Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder. RealGM Radio is your top spot for the best weekly NBA coverage.
Speakers Wes Goldberg, Mike Shearer
TopicsBasketballSportsNewsSports News
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Wes Goldberg (1:58)
Alright, Oklahoma City. 64 wins last year.
60 and a half is the win total. This team has won 60 plus wins in two straight seasons. And the year before that, I think they won like 58 wins. So like right around there. Regular season juggernaut. But the 60 and a half number is so high.
I don't know. I don't know how high they could have made this number for me to be like. Yeah, I just don't feel good. I went over on this. I just don't know. I had to go over. I couldn't feel. I didn't feel good going under. I had to go over. What about you?
Mike Shearer (2:32)
Yeah, I hate doing this because not only did I go over, but I think this is my lock. Wow. It's good for the lock to be on the edge of the barbell. You know what I'm saying? Like you don't want to generally speaking, if people are like, oh, this is going to be the best team in the league. There's a lot more ways they're probably not going to be number one. But to your point, they always are really good in the radio season. They went 64 last year, basically without Jalen Williams all year. I know he ended up playing a couple dozen games, but he was horrible. So I think him coming back healthy is just such a huge. Yeah, they lost some guys. They lost Isaiah Joe, they lost Lou Dort, they lost Wiggins. But Joe and Wiggins were in and out of the rotation anyway.
Dort is, it sounds like they were prepping for him to be on a bench roll anyway, because they need to make room for Casey Wallace and AJ Mitchell.
I don't think the depth on this team is bad. They have Jared McCain now, who's going to eat up a lot of that time too. Their depth is not actually worse than it was going into last season. They're getting Jalen Williams back healthier. I think Chet Holmgren is going to come in with a chip on his shoulder. He played great in the regular season last year and then had such a poor showing against Wimminyama. You know that's eating at him. He's a fierce competitor. He's going to come back hard. And on top of all this, they have the third easiest schedule in the league. So yeah, it's hard to get 60 wins. It's hard to get 60 wins three times in a row. But to me, this is as close to... Shai's always healthy. Knock on wood, right? Like whenever Shai plays, they're unstoppable. I just don't see...
I mean, it's always injury related. But I think if this team is as healthy as they have been traditionally, they hit this without Jaylen Williams last year. But you know what I mean?
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