After an evening where the only NBA game was the miserable Lakers versus the even more miserable Chicago Bulls (seriously NBA, wtf? It’s 2017, not 1987!) tonight we get treated to a bonafide battle of two superteams.
This is a budding rivalry, made all the more intense by the animosity caused by Kevin Durant’s departure to Golden State. There are marquee match-ups across the court - Stephen Curry vs Russell Westbrook, Durant vs Paul George, and cupcake costumes versus any resemblence of human dignity.
But as the Thunder are discovering, just throwing talent together isn’t enough - you need to get the culture right to function as a team.