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How the Georgia Bulldogs Are Trying to Emulate the Oklahoma City Thunder

Kirby Smart tasked the Georgia Bulldogs to study the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder's 2025 championship run in order to emulate their "uncommon" traits that lead to winning.
By Ryan Kerley
July 22, 2026
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TAMPA - Kirby Smart built the Georgia Bulldogs by learning and, in some cases, stealing from greatness. He learned under legends like Bobby Bowden and the greatest college football coach of all time, Nick Saban. 

He took what he absorbed as an assistant and used it to lead the University of Georgia’s football program to a decade of dominance and to be the winningest college football team of the 2020s.

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