It started with a bang.
On the first possession of the first game of the San Antonio Spurs' third NBA playoff go-around with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Kawhi Leonard drove past Kevin Durant, Steven Adams and every other blue jersey on the floor for a one-handed slam.
San Antonio never let up—not at 21-8 early on, not at 73-40 at the half (the sixth-largest halftime lead in playoff history), not even after Gregg Popovich emptied his bench during the fourth quarter with the Spurs up 105-66.
Not until the final buzzer sounded on a 124-92 annihilation of OKC at the AT&T Center on Saturday night.
If the Spurs' Borg keeps rolling like this, there may be no stopping it.
Leonard kept going all night after that opening dunk. He hit his first six shots, including a dunk off a full-court fling from a 40-year-old Tim Duncan, en route to a 25-point night on 10-of-13 shooting. The NBA highlighted Leonard's stats:
The rest of the Spurs were just as hot. They nailed 10 of their first 11 looks against a porous Thunder defense and finished the opening frame w ...
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