5 Reasons Kevin Durant and OKC Thunder Will Win the Western Conference in 2012

July 30th, 2011 by Nicholas Goss Leave a reply »
The Oklahoma City Thunder are the best young team in the NBA, and young stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook are ready to take the franchise to the next level, the NBA Finals.

The Thunder lost in last year's Western Conference Finals to the eventual champion Dallas Mavericks in five games. The season before, they lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round. 

Despite their success of 2010, and everybody not taking them lightly last season, the Thunder progressed nicely and went deeper into the playoffs.

With a team that's still rapidly improving, the Thunder will win the Western Conference next season and play for the NBA championship.

Let's look at five reasons why.

 

Nicholas Goss is an NBA and Oklahoma City Thunder featured columnist at Bleacher Report, follow him on Twitter for NBA and Thunder news. Follow @NicholasGoss35

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