The Oklahoma City Thunder achieved everything they set out to do last season: from dominating the regular season to winning their maiden NBA championship in their new city. Now, it’s September, and after a pretty quiet offseason outside of renewing Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams, and Chet Holmgren to maximum contracts, they are all set to defend their crown in a stacked Western Conference.

However, despite almost the entire conference leveling up its game, Mike Daigneault’s men are still without a doubt the favorites to win the Larry O’Brien once again. However, before they tip off their title defense against Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets at Paycom Center on October 21st and raise their championship banner, they’ll have to take care of their media duties.

When is the OKC Thunder media day?

The defending champions’ media day is set to take place on Monday, 12:00 p.m. EDT, 29th September 2025, at the OKC Thunder practice facility in Oklahoma City. Well, they won’t be alone as the majority of the NBA teams will also be having their respective media days on the same date. Nonetheless, a lot of eyes will be on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Co., as everyone wants to know where the franchise will go from here after having accomplished everything last season.

Well, whatever their targets might be, it’s safe to say that we’ll get all our answers with all the players, all the way from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to Alex Caruso, will be present alongside the coaching staff, and the front office executives on media day. There will be several activities taking place throughout the day on media day, with players taking interviews and also team and individual photo sessions set up. However, the real action will start once OKC wraps up its media day.

After a grueling day of questioning about what’s about to come, the players will then head to take part in their training camp at the end of the month, which will be held in Bricktown yet again. This is where we will get to see the first real glimpse of the OKC Thunder roster and also some of their rookie additions. Moreover, this will also be a chance to see if there are any significant changes in the team’s playing style. While this is pretty much all that you can expect from the media day, what are the expectations from the team?

What do the fans expect from the OKC Thunder this season?

Well, for most of the teams, the expectations for the next season are to improve upon their performances, but that doesn’t apply to the team that went all the way last season. Instead, what the fans want from Mike Daigneault’s team is to just continue performing the way they did in the last campaign. Last season, the Thunder had one of the, if not the greatest, seasons ever as they boasted a 68-14 regular season record and won the championship.

According to a survey held by the OKC Thunder Wire, in which hundreds of fans participated, they just want Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren, and the rest of the Thunder superstars to win another championship. In fact, they are pretty confident, as around 80 percent believe that OKC will at least have a 60-win campaign. Well, you cannot even blame them, given the roster they have, if all goes well, it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if they finished the regular season with close to 70 wins.

However, it won’t be easy because not only has the conference strengthened quite heavily, but also the fact that the pressure of expectations seems to get to teams as they collapse during the latter stages of the competition while defending their title. We mean, we all saw what happened with the Boston Celtics last season. Moreover, no team has ever won back-to-back titles since the Warriors did it back in 2017-18. Nonetheless, if there’s any team that can do this, it’s the Thunder, as we’ll watch their season unfold quite closely.