The Oklahoma City Thunder are making its case for being the best team in the entire NBA through 25 games on the season. A formidable defense and an offense with several scoring weapons and a juggernaut in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City has achieved ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder have a chance to win the second NBA Cup with a win Tuesday over Milwaukee in Las Vegas and climb atop The Arizona Republic's NBA power rankings. A loss definitely won't drop them out of the top five. This is arguably the best team in the NBA.

Eight teams made the knockout stage after round-robin group play that involved all 30 NBA teams in the league's second annual in-season tournament. The Magic, Knicks, Mavericks and Warriors were knocked out in the quarterfinals earlier in the week.