It’s not as if I didn’t pick the Oklahoma City Thunder to come out of the west at the top of the season. So at some point, that meant the Lakers would be going fishing. But, the act of watching the Lakers go out is painful. The Thunder are just the better team. They have been all season. The Lakers have the formula to beat them (that was obvious in the fact that the Lakers should’ve been up 3 games to 1 but lost 2 of those games in the fourth quarter.) But the Thunder are to fast and the Lakers don’t have enough firepower.

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