It’s August, which means the NBA has dropped its entire 2025-26 regular season. It’s an oasis in a desert content, as the league is in the middle of its slowest two months of the calendar.
The Oklahoma City Thunder learned when and where they’ll play their opponents. The reigning NBA champions will kick off the 2025-26 season on Opening Night, as they host the Houston Rockets. That means Kevin Durant will be across the court as he sees his former team unveil their championship banner and receive their rings.
The NBA schedule-makers are fully bought into the Thunder. They’re tied with the Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriors and New York Knicks for most national television games at 34. They enter the 2025-26 campaign as the consensus title favorite, as they run it back with mostly the same roster.
Examining the schedule, the Thunder are around the middle of the pack for total mileage traveled this upcoming season. They’re No. 18 with 42,235 miles. Considering OKC is smack-dab in the middle of the NBA map, it shouldn’t be a surprise to see them be one of the most-traveled teams in the league.
It’s always interesting to see how much time the Thunder spends on the road. That’s an invisible variable most fans aren’t cognizant of when penciling out a team’s win-loss record. That amount of travel — especially on lengthy road trips — adds to the wear and tear over time during the season’s six months.
