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Why the Thunder in no way resemble the Hawks

Oklahoma City is one game from what would be a massive upset, seeing as how Golden State won a record 73 games to the Thunder’s 55, but then we stop and think. Didn’t the same Thunder just topple San Antonio, which won 67 and tied for the seventh-best regular season ever?

And then we ask: Should we be surprised that a team with two of the league’s five best players is doing all this upsetting? Isn’t the NBA a superstar’s league?

A year ago, the share-the-wealth Hawks – who’d won 60 games and were the East’s No.