Oklahoma City head coach Mark Daigneault and ESPN analyst Tim Legler demonstrate some of what makes the Thunder defense the best in the league on Coaches Corner presented by Evernorth Health Services. | NBA

On May 3, 1999, an EF5 tornado ripped through Bridge Creek, Oklahoma, with winds reaching a world-record 320 mph. Homes were shredded, cars hurled like toys, and entire neighborhoods flattened in seconds. Amid the devastation, rescuers found something impossible: A baby, torn from a home by the storm, alive under the debris. The child survived one of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded—a storm so violent it scoured pavement off roads. That baby became one of the few miracles pulled from a day