The empire strikes back
The Thunder were not about to lose a fourth straight game to the Spurs. Or if they did, they were going to fight through it.
The Thunder were not about to lose a fourth straight game to the Spurs. Or if they did, they were going to fight through it.
Plus: there's a bunch of management shuffling and the Spurs and Wolves played an instant classic.
The first round is mercilessly, mercifully over after three weekend Games 7. How the narratives twisted.
You get to both via roads built by copious amounts of bricks.
A contender gets eliminated by a team shredded by the injury bug. A No. 2 seed get pushed to Game 7. And a team goes down by 50 in the second quarter. Frauds as far as the eye can see.