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May 19
33m 26s

Thunder roll to Western Conference Final...

THE ATHLETIC
About this episode
The Oklahoma City Thunder beat Nikola Jokić and the Denver Nuggets in game 7 to advance to the conference finals, and Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, Es Baraheni, and Andrew Schlecht are here to talk about it. They the Thunder’s disruptive defense, how they figured out Denver’s zone defense, and Aaron Gordon’s gutty performance. Then, the gang looks ahead to the conference finals round of the playoffs and make some predictions.

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