The only thing to slow down the Oklahoma City Thunder this week was a couple of days off.

And perhaps the extra rest could help the team with the NBA's best record.

The Thunder will find out when they visit the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday night.

They have been off since their Wednesday game, a 121-92 dismantling of the Los Angeles Lakers, who won earlier in the week in Charlotte.

Yet Thunder coach Mark Daigneault believes there is no reason for his team to be content with a 12-1 record.

"We're a better team today than we were 13 games ago," Daigneault said. "The thing is we have the maturity to understand there's 70 more games. And the rest of the league is going to continue to evolve and improve, and we have to do that to (keep) pace with the rest of the league."

The Thunder own a

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