The Oklahoma City Thunder held their second day of 2025-26 training camp on Wednesday. The four-day event will serve as a warm-up before they kick off their preseason slate.
The reigning NBA champion starts their title defense soon. Expect the rest of the league to circle their dates against them this upcoming season. After camp, Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault, Isaiah Joe and Jaylin Williams talked to the media.
Daigneault discussed the importance of continuity on his coaching staff. Williams talked about being the last NBA player ever to wear the No. 6 jersey. Joe discussed his chemistry with Isaiah Hartenstein.
Here’s what else happened at the Thunder’s 2025-26 training camp on Wednesday:
Jaylin Williams on being super vocal at training camp. Joked: “I always try to be vocal but yesterday we were getting our asses busted. I was trying to turn our team up. We were getting killed.”
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) October 1, 2025
Jaylin Williams on Nikola Topic: “You could see he just really reads the game. Great passer, great facilitator out there.”
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) October 1, 2025
Jaylin Williams on being the last player to wear No. 6: “I’m honored. I know the No. 6 was retired by the great Bill Russell.”
Said his dad picked out the number for him pic.twitter.com/OQwBKkxiNr
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) October 1, 2025
Jaylin Williams said Aaron Wiggins stole some of his talking points for his speech at the championship parade when they exchanged notes lol: “If you look at the videos of my little thing, I was not trying to get on the mic.” pic.twitter.com/t7cZsD6v6S
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) October 1, 2025
Jaylin Williams said Aaron Wiggins stole some of his talking points for his speech at the championship parade when they exchanged notes lol: “If you look at the videos of my little thing, I was not trying to get on the mic.” pic.twitter.com/t7cZsD6v6S
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) October 1, 2025
Mark Daigneault on his coaching staff: “It’s a low ego, hardworking, cohesive staff that I’m incredibly grateful for. It’s a deep staff of talented people.”
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) October 1, 2025
Mark Daigneault on their decision to swap Kam Woods and Daniel Dixon with their roles as Blue head coach and Thunder assistant: pic.twitter.com/R1YFOhpgEq
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) October 1, 2025
Isaiah Joe on his chemistry with Hartenstein: “I think last year, we got a heavy dose of that. Now it’s second nature. Not even with just Isaiah Hartenstein. Chet does it, J-Will does it at a really good job. We’re just trying to build.” pic.twitter.com/D3j9MjM0bw
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) October 1, 2025
Isaiah Joe on training camp: “Everything’s been great. Guys are playing hard. We’re such a together team. We kinda know where we wanna go. We laid a foundation last year and we’re trying to get better… We’re seeing strides just in our first 2 days.”
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) October 1, 2025
This article originally appeared on OKC Thunder Wire: Recap: What was said at OKC Thunder 2025-26 Wednesday training camp
