After a bit of a rocky patch, Oklahoma City is officially back on track. Any serious worry about this team was always a bit dramatized, but there was certainly

The Thunder still sat atop the Western Division, but they didn't feel like the same indomitable force they had been over the first quarter of the season. However, a five-game winning streak has quelled some of the doubts that once swept across the Sooner State.

Kevin Durant posted one of the worst shooting performances of his Houston Rockets career in a Thursday night loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

For live updates of the Thunder's game against the Rockets, please regularly check back to this post: The Thunder will start Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Lu Dort, Aaron Wiggins, Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren. The Rockets will start Amen Thompson, Josh Okogie, Jabari Smith Jr., Kevin Durant and Alperen Sengun.

On Christmas Day, after losing to the same foe three times in a span of 12 days, reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander flatly stated that the San Antonio Spurs had proved to be better than the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City met in the second round of last year's playoffs, and after a grueling seven-game first-round series against the LA Clippers

A couple of Western conference teams looking to get properly positioned before the second half postseason push meet up at the Toyota Center in Houston on Thursday, Jan. 15 as the Houston Rockets host the Oklahoma City Thunder.