INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Somehow, despite being in the second half of a back-to-back and having the offense for much of Saturday’s game, the Thunder remain undefeated.

A 105-92 victory in the mud against the Clippers gives Oklahoma City the best start to a season in franchise history. Six games, six wins. Uncharted territory, even for the legendary predecessors of this team.

However, scale back to a competitive range.

OKC remains one of two undefeated teams joining the Cleveland Cavaliers after Donovan Mitchell kept hopes alive with a game-winner earlier in the day.

The launch has produced all kinds of results: an exposure of Denver’s decline; late-game handles from the Bulls and Hawks; the confirmation of an identity against Spurs; the rediscovery of crime in Portland; and now Saturday.

Saturday night at the Inuit Dome was far from OKC’s sharpest, perhaps ugliest win. But the show of depth and amount of fight to get a win against a tough LA team is exactly why it got to this historic start.

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Isaiah Joe’s cape, vintage Shai and the hard effort across the finish line

Maybe the Intuit Dome will become one of the gyms Isaiah Joe loves. He seemed to enjoy the nets on his debut. When OKC needed its offensive answers most, Joe was seemingly everywhere with a timely 3.

He finished 4 for 7 from deep on Saturday, making a pair of the kind of deep handoffs that viewers knew he would shoot and that could kill any Clipper momentum.

And they did, allowing OKC to solidify its lead late in the fourth quarter and the separation that Saturday’s game took to achieve.

Joe was part of the Thunder’s late offensive resurgence, one of the few ways you could actually explain how OKC was even hanging around.

Part of that was vintage Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, living at the rim and free-throw line instead of the three-point line. Some of that, Mark Daigneault noted, was the product of all the 3s he’s already shot this year.

The goal was for teams to play him higher. The Los Angeles watchdogs did just that, and Gilgeous-Alexander rode to a sixth victory.

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