{"id":692472,"date":"2026-04-01T19:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692472\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:34:27","slug":"recap-what-happened-at-okc-thunders-wednesday-apr-1-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692472\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: What happened at OKC Thunder&#8217;s Wednesday, Apr. 1 practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oklahoma City Thunder;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Oklahoma City Thunder&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> held practice on Wednesday. They&#8217;re enjoying another two-day break before they host the Los Angeles Lakers in a national TV matchup on Thursday. At 60-16, OKC continues to have a small lead for the first seed.<\/p>\n<p>Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault and Aaron Wiggins talked to the media after practice. Daigneault explained that OKC&#8217;s success is the reason why they&#8217;ve become the NBA&#8217;s top villain. Wiggins campaigned for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to win the MVP award.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere at the practice facility, Thomas Sorber experienced some innocuous rookie hazing. The Thunder filled up his ride with package peanuts. It&#8217;s something OKC has done in recent years to first-year players. The 20-year-old joins the list.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what else happened at OKC&#8217;s Wednesday, Apr. 1 practice:<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on OKC Thunder Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/okcthunderwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/thunder\/2026\/04\/01\/recap-what-happened-at-okc-thunders-wednesday-apr-1-practice\/89424547007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Recap: What happened at OKC Thunder&#039;s Wednesday, Apr. 1 practice;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Recap&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Recap: What happened at OKC Thunder&#8217;s Wednesday, Apr. 1 practice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oklahoma City Thunder held practice on Wednesday. They&#8217;re enjoying another two-day break before they host the Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[1289,7,14355,1255,150,1622,6,3110,378,310,475,179,3966,3965,969,209,954,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-692472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-aaron-wiggins","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-clemente-almanza","11":"tag-jared-mccain","12":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","13":"tag-mark-daigneault","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nikola-topic","16":"tag-okc","17":"tag-oklahoma","18":"tag-oklahoma-city","19":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","20":"tag-oklahomacity","21":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","22":"tag-san-antonio","23":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","24":"tag-thomas-sorber","25":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116331129709364969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}