During the months following their 2025 NBA Championship run, many have discussed how the OKC Thunder could realistically replace the Stephen Curry-led Warriors and become the league's next great dynasty.
Following their blowout win over Golden State, it seems head coach Steve Kerr believes this is destined to be the case.
In his post-game presser directly after being eviscerated on the road by a final score of 126-102, the former NBA Coach of the Year, nine-time NBA Champion (five as a player), and headman of the dynastic Dubs discussed how there's more to a team finding sustained success and becoming a perennial title contender than just rostering great players.
Though it certainly plays a major role, Kerr revealed from his own experience with the Warriors that "continuity" with ownership, the front office, and coaching staff is equally as vital.
Excitingly enough, he views the Thunder as checking all four of these boxes.
"When you can line all that stuff up and can be really unified, it allows you to get through the inevitable adversity that you're going to face, and they clearly have that. They have a great, stable infrastructure- coaching, management, ownership, all of that. Because they have great players, great talent, and they're all connected, they're going to be doing this for a long time," Kerr said.
Steve Kerr believes Thunder have ability to become next great dynasty
After seemingly breezing their way through the 2024-25 campaign by rattling off the fourth-most regular-season wins in league history (68) and taking home their first Larry O'Brien Trophy of the Sooner State era, the Thunder find themselves once again on the path toward ultimate domination.
Through 12 games played in 2025-26, Oklahoma City is off to their best start in franchise history, boasting a league-best 11-1 record. Along the way, they rank fourth in the association in points per game (122.7) and first in defensive rating (104.1), net rating (14.4) , and point differential (+14.4).
What's most exciting about this elite early-season production is that they're doing all of this without All-NBA forward Jalen Williams playing a lick of action, as he remains sidelined while recovering from offseason wrist surgery.
Considering they became the second-youngest team to ever win a title last season, and are the clear favorites to do so again with the sixth-youngest roster in the entire league at roughly 24.5 years of age, it should come as no surprise that the Thunder are being looked to as the potential heir apparent to the Warriors to become the game's newest dynasty.
What has made fans and pundits even more confident in their ability to accomplish such a feat is the club's treasure trove of draft capital and its long-standing success in finding diamond-in-the-rough talents through such means.
The belief with this is that they'll be able to hold onto their maxed-out players in Holmgren, Williams, and, of course, reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander for the long haul and fill out the roster around them with a quality supporting cast without ever dipping into the devastating second apron to do so.
Add all of this to the fact that they have both the 2024 NBA Coach of the Year in Mark Daigneault and 2025 NBA Executive of the Year leading the charge on the sidelines and behind the scenes, and it's no wonder Kerr is so confident in this Thunder team's ability to take the dynasty baton from this aged-out Warriors squad.