The Oklahoma City Thunder punched their ticket to the Western Conference finals with a 125–93 victory over the Denver Nuggets in Sunday's Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals.
In doing so, the Thunder ensured that history will be made in the final two rounds of the NBA postseason. Three of the four participants in this year's conference semifinals—the Thunder, Minnesota Timberwolves and Indiana Pacers—have never won an NBA title. (The Seattle SuperSonics, which became the Thunder in 2008, won the 1979 NBA Finals.) The other participant, the New York Knicks, haven't won a title in the modern era—they last won in 1973.
