Despite the end result, the past two years can be defined as successes for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
They did not reach their personal goal of an NBA championship, but lost to the eventual champions in both of the past two years (Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat) in the conference finals and NBA Finals.
When you have a starting core of players that are all younger than 25, there looks to be years—maybe more than a decade—of championship title opportunities.
But with that said, Oklahoma City’s title chances for next season rest solely on point guard Russell Westbrook.
Kevin Durant is the face of the franchise, but Russell Westbrook still manages to repeatedly take more shots. Somehow, Durant has managed to win the past three years’ worth of scoring titles. In large part due to his efficiency, Durant is a quietly dominant scorer who is a nightly threat to put up 30 points.
Limiting Durant’s opportunities to score may only prevent the three-time scoring champion from reaching his full potential as a scorer because Westbrook takes a significant portion of the shots in 48 minutes, It also prevents ...
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Oklahoma City Thunder’s Real Title Chances Rest Solely on Russell Westbrook
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