OKLAHOMA CITY — We almost always know which team is going to win a playoff series.
Regular-season performance, home-court advantage, injured players, number of star players…it is a performance-driven but evidence-based process.
So as competitive as the individual games can be, there is a limit to the unpredictability of the end game in a series.
The Western Conference Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors, though?
Wonderfully unpredictable. So different from the norm. Both teams worthy of full respect and belief.
When a series comes along in which we truly don't know who is going to win—and even better, when we waffle on which team is actually the better team—it's like basketball heaven.
As we reach Game 6 Saturday night in this series, we think we know the Thunder are positioned to win this thing. We think the Thunder, especially after another solid outing in their Game 5 loss Thursday night in Oakland, have flipped the script to be the better team. We think the Thunder will win because less than four percent of NBA teams ha ...
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