I'm given to hyperbole. So that is conceded as preface to this. I don't however, engage in click-bait shock blogging. I say what I truly believe. I am often wrong but always confident. I was touting Oklahoma City as The Next Dynasty before this season. If they lose the Finals to Indiana I will own up and eat my words. But I have predicted not just a win in this Finals but a Dynasty. The reasons are satisfactory to me. One, they are fully integrated, I think that's the corporate buzzword; oh no, maybe it's aligned. The concept, whatever the term du trend, is that from owner to water boy the basketball corporation is on the same paragraph of the same page of the same chapter of the same book. Oklahoma City is that.

Second, and this is one of my hyperbolic leaps for I have not compared rosters, I believe that 1-15 Oklahoma City has more talent than any team I can rhink of ever. Indiana beat New York with, among other things, like coaching, their depth. Oklahoma City has deeper depth.

Three, Indiana plays 94 feet 48 minutes. Oklahoma City does that similarly.

But I have also tagged the "Thunder" as a Dynasty...before they've won one. I truly believe that, and my evidence is the gold mine of future first round draft picks that they own. A scout said of OKC that he is "scared of the future" of the NBA if OKC get one. There is no reason to think that they can be stopped from running off four or five or seven titles. They are the second youngest team in the Association...and they won 68 games NOW?! Oy VEY. There's the "Stepien Rule" that a team cannot trade its first round picks in two consecutive years. With OKC the Association may need a reverse Stepien Rule. No other team has a chance. especially under the current CBA, of building a team that could challenge OKC through free agency. Aprons and caps and all make it prohibitive. Yet, the alternative is the draft and the best team in the league has more first round picks than any other and it's not even close. Will the league office see this and require OKC to redistribute some of their stockpiled gold futures? It is "scary." To prevent superteams, the league may have created one that cannot be stopped in the future with its own rules. 

But first they have to get one.