Beating on the boards by nearly 20 in Game 1, the Oklahoma City Thunder looked like the older squads with tired legs, while the Denver Nuggets looked like a batch of young chickens. Besides an awful final 13 seconds that resulted in a stunning Aaron Gordon game-winner,

Game 2's most fervid battle, the OKC frontcourt vs. Nikola Jokic, was a window into the Thunder's early punches and wire-to-wire domination of the Nuggets.

After letting a late lead slip in Game 1, the Thunder didn’t mess around in Game 2. The Thunder crushed the Nuggets 149-106 Wednesday night in Oklahoma City to even the second-round series. Let’s get to the grades: REQUIRED READING: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,