The matchup in the 2025 NBA Finals shouldn’t be as surprising as it feels at first blush.
Doubting the Oklahoma City Thunder was always a fool’s errand. The Thunder won 68 games this year, tied for the sixth-most ever, while posting the second-best net-rating ever behind the 72-win 1996 Chicago Bulls. It wasn’t exactly hard to see this coming: OKC was the best team in the West a year ago, but suffered the growing pains expected from such a young team with a second round playoff exit. The Thunder roared back even stronger this year after adding two perfect role players in Alex Caruso and Isaiah Hartenstein who at
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