2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West Semifinals: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Denver Nuggets (DEN leads 1-0)

[bisme37]

Game 2: Wednesday May 7, 9:30pm ET on TNT

[Hoopstar23]

OKC in 6, should be a close series!

[Devilanche]

Westbrook playing in Oklahoma .

[Capn'O]

This series has the potential to be absolutely lit.

[HotRocks34]

Let's go!

[NZB2323]

I voted Thunder in 6.

Last year I told my Uncle to bet on the Mavs last year when they were 24-1 odds to win it all, and then he hedged on the Celtics in the finals. This year I told him to bet on the Thunder when they were 14-1 odds to win it all. I wonder if he’ll hedge on the Thunder.

[Sixteen]

OKC are a few weeks away from two lottery picks and a potential finals berth. life must be good as an OKC fan

[JXL]

Thunder in 6.

Jokic will have a legendary series, but will still get ousted by OKC because SGA can foul grift like a mother.

[Patches Perry]

Potentially a Hakeem vs. David Robinson situation? Lot of parallels.

David Robinson won MVP after leading his team to 62 wins and #1 seed. Hakeem was still widely thought to be the best player in the league and Rockets had already won 1 championship, and Hakeem led the 47 win 6th seed to a 4-2 series win, and eventually the championship.

Denver has championship DNA and I'd be shocked if they lost this series in less than 6 games. OKC is still very young and hasn't been in these moments. This is likely a 7 game series and Nuggets have the experience to steal game 7 on the road.

[Mk0]

I am super curious to see how this series is officiated. We have seen the refs call soft calls in some series and we just saw a no-blood-no-foul series in Denver/LAC.

OKC's perimeter defense is all about bumping and swiping at everything. Will the refs allow it or are they gonna call this more like the Rockets/Warriors?

I am thinking OKC in 6. They have incredible shooting depth, if anyone is cold they have guys like Joe and Wiggins who can fill it up and I don't think Denver's defense will be able to stick with them when that ball gets swinging side to side.

[Froob]

okc in five

[Manimal]

Denver doesn't have the depth to compete, and they're already going to be gassed from going 7 with LA. Might steal a game at some point, but they're definitely getting absolutely smoked on Monday.

[Raps in 4]

The Thunder are about to get exposed. Jokic will show why he's the real MVP.

Spoiler:

I actually think it'll be Thunder in 5

[MoneyTalks41890]

Looking forward to everyone being cool and normal about the MVP in this thread

[The4thHorseman]

OKC in 5 unfortunately.

[falcolombardi]

Potentially a Hakeem vs. David Robinson situation? Lot of parallels.

David Robinson won MVP after leading his team to 62 wins and #1 seed. Hakeem was still widely thought to be the best player in the league and Rockets had already won 1 championship, and Hakeem led the 47 win 6th seed to a 4-2 series win, and eventually the championship.

Denver has championship DNA and I'd be shocked if they lost this series in less than 6 games. OKC is still very young and hasn't been in these moments. This is likely a 7 game series and Nuggets have the experience to steal game 7 on the road.

The spurs struggled in huge part because robinson and spurs got locked down/exposed by hakeem + rockets help D

Do you see murray, westbrook or braun locking down shai? Or okc struggling to capitalize on help om shai thst badly? (best offense in the nba since january 1)


Okc is also far away of where spurs were by point differential, like i am baffled by the comparision

[TheFire]

Murray needs to play more like game 5 Murray for Nuggets to have a chance.

[Marvin Martian]

I am picking DEN in an upset. I don't see how OKC can guard Jokic and they have had problems dealing with size in the past.

[Bergmaniac]

The Thunder should win pretty comfortably, they have too much depth and too many elite defenders, plus SGA, of course. Westbrook will probably be a turnover machine in this round and Denver don't have anyone else who can provide bench offense without being unplayable defensively.

[Bank Shot]

OKC in five probably. This projects as a very, very rough series for Murray and you're not going to beat a 13 SRS team without your second option having a huge series.