"Not long after the Thunder stole a three-point win over Golden State on Tuesday night, forward Nick Collison rose from his seat inside the visitor's locker room at Oracle Arena and provided some perspective on the Oklahoma City Thunder's early season success.

As he slipped on the matching jacket to his gray sweatsuit, Collison gave a brief reminder of where this team was four years ago.

"I remember when we only won 20 games," Collison said of the 2007-08 Seattle SuperSonics. "That still doesn't seem that long ago, and I'll never forget it."

That's as close as anyone with the Thunder will come to relishing the current ride, which has the Thunder off to a league-best 20-5 start going into Thursday's nationally televised game at Sacramento."