Thunder fans enjoying home games at Paycom Center this season may notice some changes, including being greeted by new tastes and smells.

The NBA season returns this week, with the first pair of games on Tuesday and the Thunder tipping off on Thursday night. There are high expectations for Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder, how far will they go?

The NBA season is right around the corner, the Oklahoma City Thunder have seen their hype train gain steam as we inch closer to Thursday's season opener in what

Funding for construction of a new downtown arena, largely through a temporary one-cent sales tax between 2028 and 2034, was overwhelmingly approved by OKC voters in December 2023. Ownership of the OKC Thunder team have agreed to contribute $50 million toward the construction, expected to cost a minimum of $900 million overall.

The argument for the 2024-25 Thunder team to be the best ever is straightforward. It’s a year older than the third-best team in Thunder history (by net rating), and it swapped Josh Giddey for Alex Caruso and signed center Isaiah Hartenstein — the franchise’s most significant free agent addition since moving from Seattle to Oklahoma City in 2008.

The Oklahoma City Thunder enters the 2024-25 season as a title favorite. After a first-seed finish last year, they had a productive offseason to bolster their depth. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams round out one of the league's best trios.

Here, we’ll do our best to rank its physical assets. That’s not to say these players should hit the trade block any time soon, we’re only assessing which might be the most valuable from an outside perspective.