After the game, Gilgeous-Alexander said the series win means a lot for the city and fans. “They’ve been so good all year. They’ve been behind us through good and bad. It feels like no team in the league has homecourt advantage like we do,” he said. “We’ve been a better team because of them, having them behind us. To know that if we didn’t bring it tonight it could be over for them as well wasn’t fair.”

After letting their youth and inexperience get the better of them in last year's playoffs, the Oklahoma City Thunder showed their immense growth and maturation with a dominant showing on Sunday. The Thunder defeated the Denver Nuggets 125-93 in Game 7 of the Western Conference Semifinals, avenging last year's loss in the same round. They will face the Minnesota Timberwolves in their first Western Conference Finals appearance since 2016, Kevin Durant's last season with the franchise.

This was their chance to prove that they had real postseason chops. The Thunder emphatically answered any questions about whether they were ready for this stage. They transformed a battle-tested Nuggets team with a superstar who is widely considered the greatest player in the world into a ragtag group that looked deflated and stunned apart from the first quarter.