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The OKC Thunder is shifting focus to the 2025-26 season after winning its first NBA championship.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander says "it would suck to lose the NBA championship in 2026, so that's the new focus. That's the new goal."

The Thunder will face the challenge of being the defending champions, a title that has seen the last seven winners fail to repeat.

The only weight on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 's shoulders was a set of shoelaces.

Hanging from it was a golden pair of his signature sneaker, the Shai 001 . Converse made the special colorway to celebrate the OKC Thunder's first championship , which it secured with a Game 7 home win over the Indiana Pacers on June 22. And as Gilgeous-Alexander melted into his seat for his postgame press conference, so too di

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