These Thunder don’t overwhelm you in that way, but the power is unrelenting. The Thunder defense is as close to dominant as any team the league has produced in this millennium, and as Haliburton mentioned, the Thunder employ the NBA’s Most Valuable Player in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

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