Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE Does everyone feel at least a little bit better about a potential Thunder-Nuggets playoff series now? OK, so it doesn’t necessarily have to mean anything that Oklahoma City
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Christian Peterson/NBAE/Getty Images Kendrick Perkins’ trash-talking diatribes have been one of my favorite parts of the latter stages of the regular season. I don’t mind the technical fouls they often generate because he hasn’t
Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images I think I’d like to modify my stance from three weeks ago that Thunder fans should fear the Trail Blazers more as a potential playoff foe than the Nuggets. The
Getty Images The Thunder has a pretty stacked roster when it comes to March Madness experience. Two players won national titles, two more played for the national championship but lost and two more reached
Christian Petersen/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE Don’t look now, but the Thunder played a fringe playoff contender on the road the way a top-four seed should in taking care of business Wednesday night in Phoenix.
Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images BOX SCORE Well, now we know which late-season game people can point to if a single loss costs Oklahoma City a better playoff seed. I guess the bright side is that
Issac Baldizon/NBAE/Getty Images A friend sent me a YouTube clip of Michael Jordan the other day — from a game I saw live as a youngster, mind you, but still — that reminded me
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Oklahoma City vs. Expectations: An unfamiliar battle
Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty Images The Thunder face more than the Nuggets beginning tonight at Oklahoma City Arena. For the first time in most of their playoff lives, Oklahoma City’s players face outsider’s expectations of victory.