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Spurs–Thunder: Now the NBA playoffs get real

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We'll do this in 15 steps.

1. Start with Kevin Durant and Kawhi Leonard for seven games. One of them is the best perimeter defender on earth (ever?) and the other is a seven-foot merchant of death and/or buckets. It's an unstoppable force vs. immovable object situation. Watching the two of them go back and forth for 48 minutes is enough by itself to make the Thunder and Spurs must-see television.