The Oklahoma City Thunder are an American professional basketball team based in Oklahoma City. The Thunder compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference. The team plays its home games at the Paycom Center. The Thunder is owned by Professional Basketball Club LLC with Sam Presti as its general manager. The team was formed in 1967 as the Seattle SuperSonics. After spending 41 seasons in Seattle, the SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City. Owner Clay Bennett, who purchased the team in 2006, sought to get public funding for a new arena in Seattle, or a major renovation of the KeyArena in 2007. After failing to do so, he decided to move the team to Oklahoma City. Seattle sued Bennett's group to enforce the lease that required the team to stay until 2010. The two sides reached a $45 million settlement to pay off the team's lease with KeyArena in July 2008.

There have been 18 head coaches for the Thunder franchise. The franchise won its only NBA championship in the 1979 NBA Finals while coached by Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkens. Wilkens is the only member of the franchise to have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. He is also the franchise's all-time leader in regular season games coached and won, playoff games coached and won. Wilkens, Paul Westphal, Nate McMillan and Bob Weiss formerly played for the team in Seattle. Scott Brooks in , and Mark Daigneault in , are the only coaches to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award with the franchise.

Key GCGames coachedWWinsLLossesWin%Winning percentage#Number of coaches* Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the SuperSonics/Thunder Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach

Coaches Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the . #NameTermGCWLWin%GCWLWin%AchievementsReferenceRegular seasonPlayoffsSeattle SuperSonics1–164531110002– (as player-coach)246121125000One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history345133200043713240005–32816216615696*22517000—–634357277693732NBA championship (1979)7–4102022082712158–1185959523942200010–53438415080404011–147767152312–39521218316881330131700014–134538100015822062000Oklahoma City Thunder—1311200016–545338207733934NBA Coach of the Year ()17–40024315741182318–present482275207583315NBA Coach of the Year ()NBA championship (2025)

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