Tomorrow morning at 03:00 CAT, the Golden State Warriors will be taking a trip down to the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City to face one of their so-called “rivals” the Oklahoma City Thunder in what is to be one of the biggest showdowns in this regular season. Little is known what will go down but what we should do is look at the aspects that will make this game one of the best games this season.
The Regular Season MVP vs The Finals MVP
It’s been a year since the infamous departure of Kevin Durant from OKC to the Warriors and in last season’s showdowns against the Thunder KD has set alight to the Thunder in all matches especially the game that was played at the Chesapeake Arena were Russell Westbrook roared at KD that he’s “coming”. One can assume the Westbrook was warning KD that he is coming at him with full force. And now, the two former teammates are MVPs in their respective manner which means they will be playing each other at the best competitive levels and little do we know if these two superstars are going to be at each other’s throats. Although nobody likes to see a clash between two former teammates and supposedly good friends, we wouldn’t mind seeing another altercation between the two MVPs. This matchup will be a battle of deep threes and ridiculous dunks between these two. Let’s just hope that these two won’t have fists flying at each other.
Melo & PG: The Equalizers
With the addition of these two phenomenal forwards who can better than most guards in the OKC team, it looked as if OKC would be flying high and would surely be a match for Golden State. But with their recent performances we can’t be sure if we can even label the Thunder as a rival to the Warriors. But hey, maybe in tomorrow’s game Melo and PG may just able to keep the Thunder in the game…only if they play at least 38 minutes of the game because there’s no other player or duo that can shoot like Melo and be able to play both ends of the court like PG. So it’s fair to say that Golden State might have it tough against the Thunder however ONLY IF CARMELO ANTHONY AND PAUL GEORGE GET THE SHOTS THEY WANT AND SIT LESS MINUTES! Either way, these two men will surely bring their A-game in this intense match to keep the Thunder relevant to the Golden State Warriors.
Cupcake Saga: Episode II
In the game that was played at the Chesapeake Energy Arena earlier this year, some of us thought a tribute to Kevin Durant was going to presented. Instead something else happened…it was a rain of cupcakes and cupcake chants echoing all over the arena. Fans had made cupcake posters, mannequins and even shirts that promote the whole “KD is a Cupcake” saga. Mind you, the term “cupcake” is term that is equivalent to be a weakling that was brought up by a former player of OKC. I shouldn’t remind you that Westbrook uploaded a picture of cupcakes the same day KD made his decision to go to the Golden State Warriors. And oddly enough, the Warriors had the last laugh as Draymond Green and Stephen Curry trolled OKC fans by wearing a cupcake t-shirt and KD would later sport a cap with a cupcake on it. We don’t know if the OKC faithful will bring back the cupcakes to the game tomorrow but let’s hope they do because it will be fun to watch cupcake trolling in an entertaining game…hopefully.
Unlike last year, we don’t know what to completely expect in this matchup but we can be sure that emotions will fly high, there might be altercations and even torn jerseys (these Nike kits are really light and fragile hey). What we do know is that this game has to and perhaps will live up to its hype.
CATCH THIS GAME LIVE ON NBA LEAGUE PASS AND OTHER STREAMING SERVICES @ 03:00. SOWETO TV (DSTV CHANNEL 251) WILL BE PLAYING THE REPEAT LATER ON.
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The Baseline 