{"id":46392,"date":"2025-08-05T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46392\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T06:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:09:11","slug":"serge-ibaka-thinks-okc-thunder-have-chance-to-become-nba-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46392\/","title":{"rendered":"Serge Ibaka thinks OKC Thunder have chance to become NBA dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cheering from afar, Serge Ibaka was ecstatic to see Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren accomplish what he couldn’t. The Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> star trio brought home an NBA championship after a historically dominant season.<\/p>\n

After finishing painfully close to basketball nirvana, Thunder fans finally had the chance to enjoy the Larry O’Brien trophy. It was a moment that had been building up for nearly two decades. What Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Ibaka couldn’t do, Gilgeous-Alexander, Williams and Holmgren did.<\/p>\n

After Ibaka reminisced on how the Durant and Westbrook dynamic duo could’ve brought home a couple of NBA championships, the two-time block champion believes that the Thunder are set up to compete and possibly win more titles. He recently talked to TMZ Sports<\/a> to offer his opinions.<\/p>\n

“They have a lot of potential. The game now is very different. The game has changed,” Ibaka said. “This generation, I think they have the chance to be one of the best. But it’s always easy to say but hard to do it. On paper, they have a chance. They can do it.”<\/p>\n

Ibaka joins the consensus opinion. The Thunder enter the 2025-26 season as a popular title pick. They could be a rare repeat champion. After they signed Gilgeous-Alexander, Williams and Holmgren to contract extensions this summer, expect them to remain in the championship conversations for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

“As an athlete, something I’ve learned is you can’t really say numbers like that. There can be many things happen on your way there. But on paper, they have a chance to win three,” Ibaka said. “They’re young. They’re going to keep getting better and better. Sam always do a great job at putting a team together. Right now, they’re confident. It’s their moment.”<\/p>\n

It’s always nice to hear from a former Thunder great. While Ibaka couldn’t help win a championship in OKC, fans quickly fell in love with the Thunder’s first iteration. Despite several playoff shortcomings, they’ll always have a soft spot in the heart of OKC fans as they welcomed the NBA franchise in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheering from afar, Serge Ibaka was ecstatic to see Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren accomplish what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,8497,32411,32409,459,5400,3555,32408,32412,32410,6691,82,3618],"class_list":["post-46392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-city","tag-gilgeous-alexander","tag-ibaka","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-serge","tag-serge-ibaka","tag-shai","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-sports","tag-thunder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46392","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=46392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}