OAKLAND, Calif. — The night before the Thunder tried for the first time to eradicate the Golden State Warriors from the postseason, the Oklahoma City players attended the film X-Men: Apocalypse. The group included the 7-footer Steven Adams, who is from New Zealand but looks as if he could have emerged from the pages of a comic book.
As the players strode through the lobby toward the theater reserved for them, Adams attracted attention from other moviegoers at the multiplex, and not just because of his Samson locks, handlebar mustache and tattoo ink running down his right arm.