Considering the circumstances, considering what developed over 48 minutes, considering what the Thunder were dealing with tonight, this might’ve been the most emotional Oklahoma City Thunder game I’ve ever watched.

The Thunder are lucky. Very lucky. But sometimes, that’s what it takes.

The Thunder’s gameplan against the Rockets in Game 1 was simplified as just “play well.” And that’s exactly what they did.

If we learned anything tonight, it’s that the Thunder’s second and third units might make the playoffs in the East.

From 3-29 to 60 wins and the top overall seed in the West. Just another step in the process for the Thunder.

With a solid 106-90 win over Portland tonight, the Thunder put away their 59th victory of the season, hung another division banner and overcame maybe the biggest remaining hurdle to locking up the West’s top seed.

The Thunder move a game closer to the top seed in the West with an impressive 116-97 win over the Warriors as Kevin Durant completely owned the game.

What Sunday’s game against the Knicks was to fun and exciting, tonight’s game against the Jazz was pretty much the opposite. Instead of fast, explosive and offensive, it was slow, rugged, defensive and ugly. But effective.