The NBA is back and that means fans can sink into their seats for at least 2 1/2 hours to watch their favorite teams square off against 29 other opponents on any given night.

When November comes around, the season is already in full swing, and teams have had a little bit of time to adjust to one another. In the case of franchises looking to improve and player movement around the league is concerned, it's still early enough in the season for teams to find chemistry and gel into what they will be for the year.

That's also the case for the Oklahoma City Thunder who added high profile star Carmelo Anthony and Paul George to the roster in hopes of not only retaining reigning MVP Russell Westbrook but to get back into the thick of playoff contention.

It hasn't been an easy transition as the players held a team closed-door meeting after losing to the Denver Nuggets Thursday night after being unable to seal the game late in the fourth quarter against a surging Emmanuel Mudiay and Paul Milsap.

In one sequence, the team was so out of sync that the entire five-man squad committed a lane violation during a Nuggets free throw late in the second quarter.

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One of those unprecedented things that happen in the course of a game that occurs at least one time in league history was at that moment. In fact, November has brought the NBA many different records and strange happenings over the years, including these few below:

November 29, 2015

Kobe Bryant announces via a poem on The Players' Tribune Web site that he will retire after the 2015-16 season. Bryant spent his entire 20-season NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers

November 23, 1991

The Sacramento Kings snapped their NBA record 43-game road losing streak with a 95-93 win over the Magic at the Orlando Arena. Lionel Simmons scored a game-high 27 points to lead the Kings to their first road triumph since November 20, 1990 in Washington.

November 7, 1991

Earvin “Magic” Johnson retired from the NBA after disclosing that he had tested positive for the HIV virus. Johnson, who helped lead the Lakers to five NBA titles in his 12 seasons with the team, retired as the league's all-time leader in career assists with 9,921. The assist mark was later surpassed by Utah's John Stockton. Johnson returned as an active player for 32 games during the 1995-96 season.