but the thunder swept the blazers 4-0 in the regular season, all with nurkic. most of the analytics i saw pre-series had okc at 70-80% favorites to win.
the seeding isn't really significant imo, these teams were all clustered together and leapfrogging one another for 90% of the season.
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