bro is a rockets fan

It could’ve also been the Lakers vs Clippers if they didn’t choke in the bubble.

Would have been a much better series if Durant didn’t ruin the league!!

I got Spurs in 6, all in on Area 51

I don’t

Nah I think the Spurs will push it to 6.

Wemby’s rim protection against OKC is a major issue for them. If Wemby dominates on both ends, and Fox, Harper and especially Castle also hit shots then they can get at least two games.

I’m also kind of thinking the Thunder will win a lot easier than people are predicting.

The first 3 losses were all pretty early in the season and the Thunder largely shot poorly.

The Thunder won the 4th meeting.

The 5th meeting (they played 5 times because of the in-season tournament) was with pretty much no one playing for OKC.

I also think adding McCain’s shooting should be meaningful. At minimum he helps space you out, and he also can put defenses into scramble mode way more easily.

Also, I feel like Castle is going to be in foul trouble all series. He averaged nearly 4 PF per game against Minnesota, and they’re probably the least foul-baity team of the entire playoffs.

It’s not that far-fetched to think OKC holds serve at home and splits the away games

I think okc in 6. Spurs had to play a wolves team that had a starter non-existent on offense and they’ll get relentless playmaker in okc.

Why? This is a super evenly matched series idk how you only have 5

Spurs in 5

No, you must have heard hatewatchable

Hell yeah

Wemby is going to drop kick SGA

How else is he gonna elbow someone in the neck?

Dort has elbowed zero Naz Reids in the head so far this post season.

Dort vs Wemby about to be the new Wrestlemania 28

Once in a lifetime event

Lu*

What happened to Kornet?

Oh there will be excuses

It was a grade 1 strain that he was “week to week” on. Most thunder fans and reporters were expecting him back within 2 weeks, it’s been nearly 4.

He said that he was good to go starting LA game 3, but they held him out because they didn’t need him.

It’s been a month. And a lesser grade strain. About on time.

He literally said he was cleared for games 4 against the lakers but didn’t because they were up 3-0.

He took extra time to recover because the lakers series wasn’t close.

It’s been a month. That is the timeline for grade 1 muscle strains

He said he was available for the last few Lakers games but they didn’t need him so gave him extra time to rest.

Game 4 in Indiana.. I f’n lost it lmao. ³⁄₁₆ from 3. 54 points in the second half with Shai scoring 23 of them and 15 in the fourth.

Lost years of my life watching that damn game.

Also going down 1-2 in both of them and losing home court advantage. Those game 4s were teeeense and I believe we were down by high single digits early in the 4th of both.

I thought the finals were over when you were down by a considerable margin late in game 4.

Last year changed me. I can’t remember being that stressed for weeks on end at any point in my life. I feel nothing now. Bring it on. Spurs in 4? Thunder in 7? I’ll feel nothing. Thank you 2025 playoff run.

Shai smiling after going down 2-1 in Denver was cold.

They “since the 2016 finals”. That leaves room for them to be mire hyoed for the 2016 wcf both then and compared to now.

Yeah, the Knicks got a healthy ass whoopin

Bring on the Halibanyama memes

We did not have Mitch 

Despite the fact that they were both in the NBA Finals i’m sure many fans would not agree that the 2018 Cavs were a top team in the way that the comment is talking about but pretty subjective either way

Didn’t LeBron say he has a broken hand

I dont want one team to just dominate the league with zero competition. The league is less fun that way.

Unless it’s us, of course.

Honestly I don’t think so. I think the 4 or 5 in blowouts is unreasonable, but it’s completely realistic for all the games to be close, but the bounces to just favor one team over the other and it end in 4 or 5: (see Celtics vs Pacers two years ago in the ECF, a sweep yet every game was extremely close and pretty much every Boston fan will tell you that was a close series.)

You can have 4 competative games but 1 team dominates in the 4th.

A masterful job of juggling this triage team to this point.

Last time he was out and came back, he was 12-14 in the first half.