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Thunder Clinches Playoff Berth: A Strong Championship Contender?
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3/13/2025
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But, J.Y., when you look at the Thunder right now, clinching a playoff berth last night,
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a 12-game advantage for the top seed in the Western Conference, a minus-145 favorite to
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win the Western Conference crown, the Thunder in a great position.
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And as we predicted, this remains a Finals preview.
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Boston was the short favorite entering last night's game at plus-180, OKC a 2-to-1 price,
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now the exact same number, J.Y., co-favorites to win that Larry O'Brien trophy at the end
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of this season, plus-185, ultimately, at the end of the day, after March is done, through
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April and May, in early June, will it be the Celtics and the Thunder in the NBA Finals?
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It's hard to say that won't happen, but there was a game a couple of nights ago where a
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team put up 140 points and may have the runner-up to the MVP award in Nikola Jokic.
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That's going to have to say a lot about it, even though they just got smoked by Minnesota
01:03
last night.
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So, to me, it's going to come down to, can you handle the pressure?
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Can you handle it being in that spot for the first time?
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Can you handle slaying the dragon?
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That is what Oklahoma City is going to have to do.
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But, listen, Ben, they got the offensive firepower.
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They may have one of the best, maybe not the best player in the world, I think it's Nikola
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Jokic, they have the MVP right now, they're playing great basketball, and their schedule
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is light.
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22nd hardest the rest of the way, which, curious, what I want to see, Ben, is does Mark Diagonal
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start to pull back a little bit?
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Or with two games in the loss column behind Cleveland, do they keep pushing, Ben, to see
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if you get a triple by Cleveland and try to secure the overall number one seed in the
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entire league?
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