It’s almost New Year’s in 2017, and the weather is acting accordingly. The Thunder’s team plane has just touched down from Utah, a place that is somehow even colder than Oklahoma City.



The private charter doesn’t take jetways. Players have to walk down a flight of stairs and into the ice and crescendoing wind to catch their rides home from Will Rogers airport. Yet, as the Russell Westbrooks and Paul Georges of the world bundle up and head into the 2 a.m. brisk, one person is not dressed like the rest.



Steven Adams is wearing athletic shorts and sandals. And there is nothing exceptional about it.



“He continuously only wears flip-flops everywhere. … His attire in cold weather is so odd,” said Josh Huestis, Adams’ at-the-time teammate. “He’ll wear flip-flops, shorts and then a big, heavy camo jacket with his Russian bomber hat.”



The camouflage is a mainstay in Adams’ wardrobe.