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\n dynasty in the making? A historic MVP season? The emergence of the league\u2019s next generational star? One last grasp at glory for the league\u2019s senior-citizen superstars?<\/p>\n
Or are we so firmly entrenched in the NBA\u2019s great parity era that trying to make predictions is a fool\u2019s errand and the only way to properly enjoy the 2025-26 NBA season is to sit back and let yourself be surprised?<\/p>\n
Even though the Oklahoma City Thunder became the seventh different team to win a championship in the past seven years \u2014 the longest stretch in league history without a repeat winner \u2014 there is every reason to believe the small-market Thunder can stop all the parity talk cold by defending the title they won in seven games over Indiana in June. The main one: They are returning the top 12 players from a rotation that was the second-youngest ever to earn a championship, which suggests a 68-win team last season is only going to be getting better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dynasty in the making? A historic MVP season? The emergence of the league\u2019s next generational star? One…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-229297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}