Resume and Highlights: Clippers 103-104 Thunder in NBA Season
Thunder surprises the Clippers at home in a very disputed duel leaving the fans on the edge of their seats as the final score was 103-104 in favor of the locals, Clippers leaves with a painful defeat as they were the favorites to win against the last place of the conference, Dort was the leader in scoring for Thunder and his great performance gave them a valuable win.
During the beginning of the last decade, the Oklahoma Thunder had three future NBA MVPs on its roster: Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden.
The Los Angeles team does not have many collective achievements to boast about, however in the individual matter they have some players who stood out in the All-Star Game. The first of them was Randy Smith by taking the 1978 All Star MVP, the same recognition that Chris Paul took in 2013 and Kawhi Leonard in 2020.
The Clippers do not have any retired jersey, but throughout their history they had great players such as Bob McAdo, Bill Walton, Elton Brand, Randy Smith and in recent times some references were Blake Griffin, Chris Paul and DeAndre Jordan, in addition to current stars Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and Lou Williams.
The Thunder honored the numbers that the SuperSonics had retired: Gus Williams 1, Nate McMillan 10, Lenny Willkens 19, Spencer Haywood 24, Fred Brown 32 and Jack Sikma 43. The Thunder retired only one jersey, Nick Collison's No. 4 jersey.
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Costing $89 million, the venue took three years to build, the pavilion is one of the government's works to improve sports facilities, the arena hosts Oklahoma City Thunder, Oklahoma City Blazers and Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz home games.
Clippers and Thunder are living very different realities, while the team from Los Angeles have superstar Kawhi Leonard in their ranks, the Oklahoma Thunder are sunk at the bottom of the Western Conference and with three straight losses, Clippers are undoubtedly the favorite but nothing is written.
The beginnings of the Clippers date back to 1970 in the city of Buffalo, where they remained for a brief period of 8 years, thanks to a constant change of owners and poor results, the team moved to the city of San Diego now with the name of Clippers, in his first season the team got its first positive record after 13 years, but in the 1981-82 season, the team was sold and in 1984 moved to Los Angeles, the team spent much time in the shadows until in 2011 managed to unite Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan, the team began to be protagonist in the PLayoffs reaching the conference semifinals but still did not make the leap to play an NBA finals, in the 2019-20 season Kawhi Leonard arrived along with Paul George, they got the pass to Playoffs but fell to Denver Nuggets in the semifinals, For the 2020-21 season the team managed to reach their first conference finals, but Chris Paul and the Suns beat them 4-2, the Clippers are currently ranked fifth with a positive record of 16-13, the team has high chances of qualifying for the Playoffs and will be a tough opponent for anyone who faces them.
The Thunder'shistory begins in Seattle with the extinct Seattle Supersonics in 1967, being a practically new team at the end of the 70's they won their first and only NBA title, by the beginning of the 80's the team is sold and along with its sale comes the decline of the team, However, in the 90's the team achieved a record number of league wins but failed in the first round of the Playoffs, for the 2007-08 season, the team closed the season with only 20 wins, the bad results and the excessive expenses led Seattle Supersonics to change city, Oklahoma City was the chosen city and the Thunder was born, the team improved economically and was being built, a young James Harden joined the team to share the court with Kevin Durant, as the seasons went by the team was improving economically and athletically, reaching its first final in the 2011-12 season, in which they faced the Miami Heat of LeBron James, which ended with the championship and being MVP of the finals, prior to this season the team lost great players such as Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook, Paul George, among other great players, currently is the worst team in the western conference with a negative record of 8-19 and have just lost 3 consecutive games.
Thunder in action/Image:okcthunder
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