Nick Collison News

Yes, this will be the first time the Spurs and the Thunder face off in a playoff series, but that doesn't mean the franchises haven't met before in such a setting.

Coach Scott Brooks can't explain why you guys are so much more careful with the ball these days.

As the Oklahoma City Thunder prepare to battles the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals, the "up-and-coming"-type labels tagged to this young team are long gone.

Bill Barnwell of Grantland on OKC : "If the Thunder were truly bunkering down and avoiding turnovers in a way that they hadn't during the regular season, we would have already seen it in the first round, right? You can be the judge of that.

The Western Conference finals bring together the two most outstanding teams of this year's playoffs; the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder will size each other up over a seven-game series, measuring for weakness and bending the matchup to their respective strengths.

Redhawks pinch hitter Matt Hessman came into the game in the ninth and sent a fly ball to left that scored the two go-ahead runs for OKC.

Multiple people are injured after a shooting in Bricktown Monday night just minutes after the OKC Thunder clinched game five over the Lakers.

COMMENTARY: The series would be headed back to Los Angeles if not for the play of Oklahoma City's big three big men.

The Oklahoma City Thunder are at home trying to close out the Los Angeles Lakers, but in the third quarter, they found themselves trailing by two.

Someone scanned the old Sonics logo on a T-shirt and placed the iconic image of the Seattle skyline and a basketball above the words OKC Thunder.

During the regular season, Thunder coach Scott Brooks will stick to his substitution pattern through thick and thin.

Last night's game wasn't the most pleasant thing to see in the world, we all know that.

The Los Angeles Lakers' Steve Blake gets a pass off in front of the Oklahoma City Thunder's Derek Fisher, left, and Nick Collison in Game 2 of the Western Conference Semifinals at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on Wednesday, May 16, 2012.

Entering Friday night's Game 3, with Oklahoma City having taken a 2-0 lead in this best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal series, all of the pressure was on the shoulders of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Kevin Durant scored 22 points and rattled in the go-ahead basket on a baseline runner with 18 seconds left, and the Oklahoma City Thunder scored the final nine points to rally for a 77-75 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals Wednesday night.

It wasn't quite as violent as the elbow that struck Oklahoma City guard James Harden on April 22, but he certaintly returned the favor to Metta World Peace -- minus the ejection and flagrant foul call.

Andrew Bynum was fined $15,000 by the NBA for skipping a post-practice media session.

We were all over-eager to see how the Thunder would come out on Monday after the extended layoff, and tonight we wonder if the Thunder can continue the dominance they showed.

Last week, as part of the Seattle Shakespeare Company's annual fundraiser, Shawn Kemp and I performed a scene from "Taming of the Shrew." The premise of the company's Bill's Bash event was that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be writing for television.

Oklahoma City Thunder: The West's No. 2 seed with a record of 47-19. Beat Dallas Mavericks in 4 games.