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1 week ago | nytimes.com | Michael Charles |Austin Green

By The AthleticGreetings basketball fans! Welcome to The Athletic's live coverage of Game 3 in the Western Conference finals featuring the Oklahoma City Thunder and Minnesota Timberwolves. The Thunder look like the best team in the NBA in this series, hence why they are up 2-0. Can Oklahoma City take a commanding 3-0 lead or will Minnesota get back in the series? Follow our live updates as we build up to tonight's game.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Michael Charles |Austin Green

The Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 114-88 at home Tuesday night, taking a 1-0 series lead over Minnesota as the fight for a spot in the NBA Finals began. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder in scoring with 31 points, adding nine assists and five rebounds. Minnesota kept it close in the first half, but Oklahoma City secured its first double-digit lead in the final few minutes of the third quarter and stayed in control until the buzzer.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Michael Charles |Austin Green

Hello basketball fans and welcome to our live coverage of Game 6 of this Western conference semifinal between the Thunder and Nuggets from Ball Arena in Denver. Despite Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic combining for 72 points, the Nuggets were unable to win a critical Game 5 on the road as the Thunder overcame a nine-point deficit in the fourth quarter to take a 3-2 series lead. Can Denver force a Game 7 tonight or will Oklahoma City advance to the Western Conference Finals?

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Lukas Weese |Austin Green

Hello basketball fans and welcome to The Athletic's live coverage of Game 3 of this NBA Western Conference semifinals series between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors!The biggest storyline in this series remains the absence of Warriors star Stephen Curry after he left Game 1 with what was later diagnosed as a hamstring strain. Curry will miss, at the very least, tonight's game and Monday's Game 4 - and quite possibly even more.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Michael Dominski |Lukas Weese |Cameron Teague Robinson |Ben Pickman |Austin Green

Texas joins South Carolina and UCLA in the Final Four