Kevin Durant’s Explanation For The Thunder Not Celebrating After Game 1 Is Typical

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There isn’t yet a movement in the NBA to Make Basketball Fun Again and if one ever begins, it won’t be led by Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Following their 108-102 victory against the Golden State Warriors in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals, the Thunder were muted in their assumed joy afterward. They rallied from a huge deficit against the best regular-season team in league history and took a matter-of-fact approach to it all.

It seems this was calculated.

After taking out the San Antonio Spurs in the second round, Durant said something similar.

“This wasn’t our championship,” he told ESPN’s Royce Young.

Sure, you’d like to see a little more enthusiasm about winning a series but you can understand why this is the mental approach the Thunder are taking against the Spurs and Warriors. If you want to beat two teams that combined for 140 wins in the regular season on eight separate occasions, you can’t feel too good about yourself because you won one game. I’d love to see Russell Westbrook offer a 360-degree crotch chop to Oracle Arena as the horn sounds. but you can understand why he’d want to stay humble.

Then again, if Enes Kanter laughs at Skip Bayless after every win, that’s fine.

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