Frustrating End Spoils Season That Saw Thunder Embrace Kevin Durant’s Positivity

May 31st, 2016 by Kevin Ding Leave a reply »

OAKLAND, Calif. — Back when the Oklahoma City Thunder were slaying the first giant in their path, upon winning Game 5 in San Antonio earlier this month, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook critiqued teammate Dion Waiters in the postgame locker room for his brand of cologne.

This was Durant and Westbrook, each 27, lecturing Waiters, 24, on the finest colognes and how those invariably are the older editions. It was the NBA's equivalent of some snooty wine-connoisseur examination, though Durant indeed does the whole spray-the-air-and-step-into-it thing even when he's just heading home after a game in Oklahoma City.

It was a fun, warm moment in San Antonio among many this tumultuous season for the Thunder, who finished in no mood Monday night for light topics of any kind.

This second giant, seemingly mortally wounded, instead rose back up and ended what could have been the Thunder's dream season with a 96-88 Game 7 win.

The Golden State Warriors did what the Spurs could not, solving the Thunder's long, athletic defense to take Games 5, 6 and 7 of the Western Conference Finals.

Almost. That's what w ...

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