Champagne Issues: Why the Thunder’s Locker Room Celebration Was Delayed

The Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder had simply received the NBA championship, the on-court ceremony was over and so they had been heading to the locker room to begin the celebration. This sometimes consists of the normal spraying of champagne throughout everybody and all the pieces.

And the Thunder had been able to partake in all that.

“The place’s the champagne at?” some yelled on their approach into the room.

It was prepared. Drawback was, the Thunder weren’t.

See, the Thunder are younger, the youngest NBA champion in practically a half-century. And, effectively, it seems that the majority gamers had completely no thought how one can pop the corks.

“None of us knew how one can do it,” middle Isaiah Hartenstein stated, revealing that some gamers — sure, moments after successful the NBA title — had been going onto YouTube looking for tutorials for how one can make the bubbles fly.

Enter Thunder guard Alex Caruso, who has already received an NBA title. The oldest participant on the staff, at 31, confirmed everybody how one can get it achieved. And ultimately, they received it proper.

“We didn’t do all of it on the similar time till, like, the third attempt,” Caruso stated. “I attempted my finest.”

In time, all of them figured it out. It was the final lesson of many this season for the Thunder, who completed with 84 wins — tying for the third-most in NBA historical past.

And the staff may have all of its key gamers again subsequent season; they’re all beneath contract. So, if the Thunder discover a technique to go back-to-back, Caruso expects the locker room celebration to go a bit extra easily in 2026.

“We’ll get some relaxation, reset, attempt to go once more subsequent 12 months and see if we are able to do it once more,” Caruso stated. “We’ll be higher. We’ll be higher subsequent 12 months.”

Reporting by The Related Press.

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