Will the OKC Thunder miss their home floor in the NBA playoffs?

The Thunder are a true ‘Bubble Team’

The OKC Thunder are in a position to thrive in the NBA’s Orlando bubble.

The expectations of the team are higher than they were to start the season, but they’re nowhere near the championship aspirations of years past.

The Thunder is one of those teams that could, at worst, stumble into this version of the NBA Finals.

The league has handled its COVID-19 protocols as well as any major sports league could hope for, but there will always be the chance that a key player gets sick — or just tests positive and has to sit out in a key moment in the playoffs.

Lesser teams still probably wouldn’t overcome an Anthony Davis-less Los Angeles Lakers or a Russell Westbrook-less Houston Rockets in a seven-game series — but perhaps the Thunder could.

No one is wishing illness or bad luck on any of these people involved, but we’ve seen the shortened MLB season getting drastically affected by a coronavirus outbreak that has yet to be fully resolved.

Nothing outside of a Lou Williams trip for chicken wings has raised red flags on the NBA’s restart so far.

However, it’s much too soon to start believing that this virus is done complicating everything from federal lockdowns to players’ everyday lives in the bubble.

There’s a chance the Thunder could be the healthiest team by the end of this 2019-20 “Season 2.0” which could mean bringing championship hardware back to “Loud City” whenever the day is that the fans can safely come back to the stands.