The Oklahoma City Thunder eliminated the Denver Nuggets from the NBA Playoffs on Sunday with a 125-93 win at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City. The big picture: Oklahoma City secured a 4-3 series win against the Nuggets and will face the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference Finals.

Russell Westbrook is easily one of the most polarizing players in the NBA. Fans across the league gravitated toward him after Kevin Durant departed from Oklahom

How a best-of-7 series against the Nuggets turned the Thunder into a team that's on the verge of reaching the NBA Finals. The postseason has forced the NBA’s youngest team to grow in critical moments.

Oklahoma City Thunder were a great basketball team, as they were the last team in franchise history to make the Western Conference Finals before Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led his side to the NBA Finals this season.

It's not often that NBA and Nuggets fans hear about Jokic once the season is over, as he usually goes back to Serbia to be with his horses. So, when Nuggets veteran DeAndre Jordan was able to provide an update on Jokic's offseason on an appearance on FanDuel's "Run It Back," it was notable.

The Thunder rallied from a 10-point, second-half deficit to beat the Pacers on Friday night and tie the NBA Finals at two games apiece.

Game 1 of the NBA Finals could have been an especially crushing defeat for a young Oklahoma City Thunder team had they not dealt with nearly the exact same scenario earlier in these same playoffs

Sam Anderson, a staff writer for The Times Magazine, first wrote about the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2012. He is the author of “Boom Town” (2018), a book about the team and the city it calls home.