The Oklahoma City Thunder fell in game 6 to the Utah Jazz on the road 96-91, ending round one of their playoff series. In what might be considered a minor upset, not necessarily of this series (teams finished with the same record) but of the entire season, OKC’s grand experiment of a star-laden team has failed, as we predicted it would many times along the way.
While the Thunder showed numerous instances throughout the year that they had a peak gear comparable to the league’s best, the problem then, as now, is that it happened so infrequent, with the valleys as low as the league’s worst.