The Lakers will be without one superstar as LeBron James sits out the early weeks of the season with a back injury, but Los Angeles still has a stud to lean on.

The defending NBA champion Thunder take on one of their biggest adversaries in the Western Conference, as Oklahoma City will raise a banner before facing Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets on openi...

The Thunder are coming off a 68-14 regular season that was followed up by a postseason in which they went seven games in two series, swept another and won the fourth in five games.

What started as a few notes sung into a machine would become one of sports’ most iconic theme songs.