When Durant AND Westbrook went down, I figured this would be the case. Those two will come back in 4-6 weeks, the Thunder will start rolling again, and come playoff time, they will be the 6th-8th seed nobody wants to face in the first round. However, I figured it would at least cost them HCA, and that was benefit enough for me.
Now with literally the entire roster crumbling...the Thunder could conceivably dig themselves into a hole just too deep to get out of and miss the playoffs entirely. Keep in mind that only 6 games separated the 4th spot from the 9th spot last season, and the Suns missed the playoffs with 48 wins in the stacked West.
Once again, not likely that a team with Durant and Westbrook miss the postseason, but they are gonna have to scratch and claw for it if they hope to get in.

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