Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images Over the past four days, no matter what I’m doing, one thought jumps into my brain every minute or so. Other than, “Has it been long enough for me to eat

Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images The NBA Finals are a huge machine of everything that’s descending upon Oklahoma City this week. Drama, the NBA’s brightest stars, important people and people who think they are important, perhaps

Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images Obviously full preview and other stuff to come, but five quick thoughts on the Thunder’s matchup with the Heat in the NBA Finals. 1. I’ll be honest: I wanted it to

Mike Ehrmann/NBAE/Getty Images How nice is this? Ticket punched to the NBA Finals with the ability to kick back and wait to see who the challenger is. In all reality, it doesn’t matter in

Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images And so here we are, right where most of us thought we’d be right about now, getting ready to watch a showdown series for the Western Conference Championship between the two

Chris Covatta/NBAE/Getty Images You know in The Matrix when Neo finally realizes he’s The One? Agent Smith has kicked his butt the whole movie but finally, he gets whatever it is he needs to

Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images FIRST ROUND EDITION It’s funny how the playoffs work. You beat a team in five games, which seems kind of like it was easy. But it was most definitely not easy.

Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty Images Thunder fans sat in horror in the fourth quarter of Game 2 watching Oklahoma City labor on the offensive end, trying to find just a single point at a time. An