The Oklahoma City Thunder are a juggernaut. They won 68 games in the regular season with the best point differential in NBA history. They won 40 of those games by 15 points or more, another new record, and they've already won seven playoff games by that same margin (and five of them by 25-plus). At their best, it looks like they must have snuck a sixth defender on the court. Last Wednesday, in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals, they made the Minnesota Timberwolves -- an excellent, well-coached team in their own right -- appear downright incompetent, and it wasn't even particularly surprising. Ten days before that, the Thunder finished off their second-round series the exact same way: in Game 7, the Denver Nuggets had trouble even getting the ball to Nikola Jokić.
On Sunday,