We’ve gone seven days without a professional basketball game on television. For those non-basketball but yes-Thunder fans, that’s now 37 days without watching your team. It’s not fun, and it surely won’t be fun watching Kevin Durant play on a different team.
But there’s a silver lining in all of this: not every player in the series can return to their respective team next season. There will be current Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers playing on different team’s next year, possibly contributing in a bigger role. Oklahoma City could use a few of these players, and the Finals will be the best opportunity to determine how they would fit.