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OKC Thunder Post 68 Wins, 6th-Most In NBA History

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Published14 Apr 2025

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The Oklahoma City Thunder are the top seed in the Western Conference for the 2025 NBA Playoffs, and no team came close to challenging them for their spot. They finished out the regular season with a 16-game cushion between them and the next-best team in the West, and put up numbers that proved their domination from start to finish.

Thunder Post 6th-Best Regular Season Mark In NBA History

They finished the year with 68 total victories, which is enough to put them in a tie for the 6th-best season in league history.

The top spot obviously belongs to the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors, Steph Curry and company won 73 games that season, which topped the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls who set the all-time mark with a 72-10 record.

Aside from that dominate Warriors team, the 2024-25 Thunder are the only team this century to rack up 68 regular season wins. The Boston Celtics won 68 games in the early 1970s, and the Philadelphia 76ers accomplished the same feat in the late 1960s. The only two teams that have ever won 69 games in a single year were the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers and the 1996–97 Bulls.

The Thunder are the first 65+ win team in the NBA since the Houston Rockets in 2017-18.

The accomplishment bodes well for OKC. The Warriors infamously lost in the championship after their 73-9 season, but the next four teams on the single-season wins list all won titles. Of the 10 teams that have posted the most wins in a single NBA season, 7 of them wound up hoisting the Larry O’Brien trophy when all was said and done.

The Thunder have set records that the other teams on the list would be jealous of. OKC’s point differential of +12.87 per game is the best margin in the history of the NBA, and they’ve outscored their opponents by a combined total of 1,055. They finished 29-1 against the Eastern Conference, which is the best record of any team against an opposing conference in league history, and had 54 double-digit wins during the regular season.

As the no.1 seed, they’ll take on whichever Play-In team takes over the 8th spot in the upcoming playoffs.