Oklahoma City Thunder vs San Antonio Spurs Prediction NBA Picks 10/7/24

The Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs meet Monday in NBA preseason action at the Frost Bank Center. Here’s a Oklahoma City Thunder vs San Antonio Spurs Prediction. This article will include a Oklahoma City Thunder vs San Antonio Spurs Pick.

Oklahoma City Thunder Betting Preview

The Oklahoma City Thunder won 57 games last season and enter year 5 under coach Mark Daigneault. The Thunder gained their valuable playoff experience and should be better than they were a season ago. The additions of Alex Caruso and Isaiah Hartenstein make OKC better defensively and provide some toughness. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has emerged as a superstar, Chet Holmgren is coming off his best season yet, and guys like Jalen Williams and Luguentz Dort are coming into their own. The Oklahoma City Thunder are young, deep and enjoy playing together. It feels like last year’s run was just the tip of the iceberg, as OKC is a popular pick to threaten the NBA title.

The OKC Thunder haven’t won 50-plus games in back to back seasons since 2013-14. There’s good reason to be excited for Thunder basketball.

San Antonio Spurs Betting Preview

The San Antonio Spurs have won 22 games in back to back seasons, and Gregg Popovich returns for yet another year as he approaches three decades as head coach. The Spurs were must watch basketball regardless thanks to Victor Wembanyama, but they also improved by adding Harrison Barnes and Chris Paul. There’s some leadership in the locker room now and guys who can create offense easier to take some of the pressure off the young superstar. Devin Vassell has also proven to be an above average scorer in his first few years. The Spurs still have work to do in terms of filling out the roster and giving Wemby a real chance to win, but there’s no doubt this year’s version of the Spurs is better than it was a season ago.

The Spurs haven’t made the playoffs since the 2018-19 season and haven’t won a playoff series since Kawhi Leonard was on the team.

Oklahoma City Thunder vs San Antonio Spurs Prediction

The Oklahoma City Thunder are obviously the much better team on paper, but this is the preseason, so a lot of that doesn’t matter. OKC knows its rotation and who is going to make the team, while the Spurs are still trying to figure things out and build around Wemby. It’s the Spurs who have open playing time available, and that should create more competition and better results on the court. We’ve already seen it through the first handful of preseason games. Give me the Spurs and the points.

Randy Chambers's Pick: San Antonio Spurs +5