Kobe Bryant recently said that the Oklahoma City Thunder, along with the Chicago Bulls, were the teams playing the best basketball in the league other than the defending champs.

"Right now Chicago is obviously playing at an extremely high level," Bryant said. "For some reason, the Thunder go below the radar in the public opinion, but they’re not under the radar in our mind’s eye by any stretch of the imagination."

It all starts on the offensive end for the Thunder, where they are a top-five team from an efficency standpoint. At 27.8 points per game, Durant sits atop of the league’s scoring table for the second straight season.

Russell Westbrook is a player whose efficiency stats rival those of Chris Paul and Derrick Rose and put him among the league’s elite floor generals.

Oklahoma City, however, have lost their two most recent games.