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What They're Saying: Cavs-Thunder Has 'Game of the Year' Feeling

Check out what people are saying about Wednesday's game (7 ET, ESPN)

NBA.Com Staff

On Wednesday, the best team in the Eastern Conference, the Cleveland Cavaliers (31-14), host the No. 1 team in the Western Conference, the Oklahoma City Thunder (30-5), in a game that some are billing as an NBA Finals preview.

The Thunder enter Wednesday’s game (7 ET, ESPN) riding a franchise record 15-game win streak, while the Cavs are nearly as hot, boasting a 10-game win streak of their own.

Check out what people are saying about this epic midseason match-up:

  • LISTEN: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers of The Athletic’s NBA Daily podcast calls out that only 30 teams in NBA history have won 28 of their first 33 games — including OKC and Cleveland this season. Of the 28 teams that have done it before, 13 of them won the NBA Finals. Fourteen teams made the NBA Finals with 24 of the 28 teams reaching the conference finals.
  • READ: Rylan Stiles from Locked On Thunder shows how the Thunder have become a second-half team with relentless defense, especially in recent games against the New York Knicks and defending champion Boston Celtics.

  • WATCH: Locked On Cavs debates if this Cavs-Thunder contest could be the early favorite for “Game of the Year”.
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