There is still more than half the schedule remaining in the 2025-26 NBA season, but the Oklahoma City Thunder are off a great start. Well … they were off to a great start.

The field is set for the NBA Cup's eight-team tournament. Among the competitors is the OKC Thunder, which won Group A of the Western Conference with a perfect record of 4-0 in group play. It'll host the Phoenix Suns in the quarterfinals at 6:30 p.m. CT on Wednesday, Dec. 10.

For the second straight season the Oklahoma City Thunder have advanced to the final four of the NBA Cup tournament. That marks two trips in the first three year's of the in season tournament's existence. Just another aspect of the NBA the Thunder have ...

Record-wise, the Thunder are still the best team in the league at 30-7, but all of a sudden, they don't look as unbeatable as they did at the beginning of the season and their current struggles have Rashad McCants and the rest of the Gil's Arena crew debating whether or not they're still the best team in the NBA today.

Keep its foot on the gas. It was something the Thunder did magnificently a season ago. It's something OKC must do with the rise of the Spurs.

Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault will need to figure things out. And quickly. You can't let bad habits bleed into the rest of your game. While still the NBA's best defense, they've been sliced apart too frequently in recent games. The offense has also deteriorated. To the point that even Shai Gilgeous-Alexander looks human.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/nba/cavaliers/onsi as LeBron James game, OKC Thunder matchup headline Cleveland Cavaliers' January schedule. The Cleveland Cavaliers have an important 15 games in the month of January that could define how their season turns out.