{"id":365936,"date":"2025-12-23T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365936\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:56:10","slug":"heres-the-5-most-important-okc-thunder-games-to-watch-in-2026-according-to-steve-mcgehee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365936\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the 5 most important OKC Thunder games to watch in 2026, according to Steve McGehee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new year of 2026 delivers 48 games for the Thunder before they reach what is expected to be a playoff run. The schedule is more challenging compared to the early portion of the 2025-26 season, with eight more back-to-backs remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Four matchups await with the Denver Nuggets, three more against an improved Suns team, and three with the Lakers, including two at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Once the calendar flips to 2026, Oklahoma City will play Detroit, San Antonio, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Toronto, Minnesota, Orlando, New York and Boston twice.<\/p>\n<p>With so many quality matchups, it was difficult to narrow the list to five key games after Jan. 1, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>(List ordered by dates)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new year of 2026 delivers 48 games for the Thunder before they reach what is expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-365936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}