OKLAHOMA CITY — Mark Daigneault hopped onto a dais on Saturday—or stepped, or shuffled, or whatever someone whose season has stretched into its eighth month and 105th game does at the end of it—and addressed what will likely determine the outcome of Sunday’s Game 7 of the NBA Finals: Effort. Energy. Will. Six games, three wins apiece, and these two teams, relative strangers before the start of this series, now have master’s degrees in each other.
“The work is done,” the Thunder coach said. “The muscle is built. We have to flex that muscle. That’s what tomorrow will come down to for us.”
