What the Oklahoma City Thunder are doing right now can hardly be described as normal or typical. It opens the door to possibilities, stirs the imagination and invites two reasonable questions about this regular season they’re ripping through:

Where are they headed?

And can they finish what they’ve started?

This is about OKC’s chance to flirt with history. When a team wins 20 of 21 games to open the season, and does so largely without an All-NBA player who just returned to the lineup, this sets off alarms.

The season is one-fourth over. At this rate, OKC would take ownership of the NBA record for most wins in a season and do so in a smashing way. Obviously, the key words are “at this rate” because the scorching pace OKC is on seems unsustainable over the next four-plus months. But still

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