Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was the best player on the floor in the Thunder’s Game 7 win on Sunday as a young squad passed their biggest playoff test yet.

In the first round, the Thunder opened with a 51-point win over the Grizzlies, but dropped Game 1 to Denver after fading late. Minnesota had a six-day layoff before each of its first two series, winning Game 1 vs. the Los Angeles Lakers and dropping Game 1 to Golden State. The Timberwolves won each series in five games.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the OKC Thunder is headed to the Western Conference finals. To get there, it took surviving the Denver Nuggets.

One of the ways Finch tries to influence games goes beyond the court. If you follow the NBA long enough, you'll know head coaches occasionally spill their gripes about the officials. Heck, he's done it once already with OKC way back in February when Minnesota shocked the first seed with a 25-point comeback win.

There is no question Sunday was the biggest stage this core has ever been on. A Game 7 at home as the heavy favorites in the series, attempting to avoid being u

In a recent mock draft on Bleacher Report, Jonathan Wasserman has the Thunder selecting Liam McNeeley, a former five-star UConn product. At 6-foot-7, 210 pounds, Wasserman compared McNeeley to Sacramento Kings forward Keegan Murray.

The New York Knicks haven't won an NBA championship since 1973. The Indiana Pacers won their most recent title that year — in the ABA. The Oklahoma City Thunder franchise has one title in its history, that coming in 1979 when the team called Seattle home. And the Minnesota Timberwolves have never even been to the NBA Finals.

It was a slug fest, a messy, muddy, grind-it-out series. Eventually, the Oklahoma City Thunder survived the Denver Nuggets in a best-of-7 set that went the dist