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The Oklahoma City Thunder face added pressure in their bid for an NBA championship thanks to a report that general manager Sam Presti would consider breaking the team up.

“They seem young now, but this is a young man’s game,” Presti told an Oklahoma City radio station. “If they don’t win this year or in 2013, 2014 or 2015, I’ll have to start thinking about tearing this team down and starting over. So, yes, there’s some pressure there.”

Despite being only 23 years old, Thunder forward Kevin Durant has been in the NBA for five years and is still without a ring.

“I hear the whispers all the time: ‘Is he incapable of winning the big one? Is he a choker? Will Kevin Durant never win a championship?’” says Durant. “Well, I don’t actually hear them. Because they are whispers. But I’m sure some people are saying stuff like that maybe.”

Oklahoma City Thunder players took the court on Wednesday night dressed in matching white uniforms with blue trim in a “white out” to show support and solidarity with their color-coordinated fans.

“I think Oklahoma City has the best players in the NBA,” said Thunder fan Jason Morton. “It’s really neat to see that they’re so into what we’re doing in the stands that they would dress all the same like that. It may seem like a little thing, but it means a lot.”

Thunder forward Kevin Durant says the team thought of the gesture before the game.

“We were in the locker room and these white uniforms were hanging in our lockers,” said Durant. “We thought: ‘You know what? We should all wear these tonight for the fans. It will look cool.’ And it did.”

“The uniforms were also free,” said point guard Russell Westbrook. “You can’t beat a free uniform. I’m sure if was on all of us to wear the right uniform, someone would have forgotten and Serge Ibaka would have ruined the look by playing in an old Raptors jersey or something. But the fact that these white ones were provided made it all possible. So I want to thank whoever did that. I’m going to keep this uniform forever.”

Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant has made a habit of wearing a backpack throughout his post-game press conference appearances — a look that has prompted Nike to plan the release of a line of Durant-branded backpacks. But the high-scoring forward’s latest look may be harder for the apparel giant to market.

“I don’t care too much about fashion or how things look,” said Durant, of the fanny pack he has been wearing in recent games. “I just want my clothing and accessories to be comfortable and useful,” he added, unzipping his fanny pack to get some chapstick.

Durant’s in-game fanny pack — in which he carries tissues, mints, aspirin, his cell phone, wallet, a Swiss army knife, pen and notepad, and a pocket-size book of Sudoku puzzles — has been the talk of the league since he began wearing it last week. The pack, an item most often used by uncool, middle-aged dads, has also forced the NBA to contemplate banning their use during games.

“We never listed fanny packs in the uniform code because we couldn’t conceive of there being an NBA player so uncool to even consider wearing one,” said NBA commissioner David Stern. “Even I don’t wear a fanny pack when I take my grand kids to the zoo and look at me! I’m probably one of the lamest people there is.”