Nico Harrison was the brains behind the last team to beat the Thunder in a playoff series . Apparently those Mavericks, who dispatched the Thunder in six games en route to the NBA Finals, weren’t good enough.

In the 18 months since that Western Conference semifinal — and nine months removed from the worst trade in the history of sports — the Thunder has won a championship and is on a warpath to another while the Mavs, Cooper Flagg and all, are punchless.

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