Supercomputer predicts Oklahoma City Thunder to win NBA Championship against Boston Celtics

The Boston Celtics ended their 12-year hold for an NBA Championship past season, but the Oklahoma City Thunder are acceptable to dethrone them, according to a supercomputer.

An NBA supercomputer has thrown a curveball by predicting that the Oklahoma City Thunder volition snatch the crown from the Boston Celtics successful an epic seven-game Finals showdown this season.

Despite the Celtics securing their archetypal NBA Championship since 2008 past twelvemonth with a convincing 4-1 bid triumph implicit the Dallas Mavericks, Sportscasting forecasts a antithetic result for the upcoming Finals. The Celtics are tipped to scope the Finals again but autumn abbreviated of victory.

The supercomputer foresees the Thunder clinching their archetypal NBA rubric successful 46 years, triumphing implicit Boston successful a nail-biting seven-game series. Oklahoma City's way to glory is expected to see victories against formidable opponents specified arsenic the Los Angeles Lakers, Denver Nuggets, and the Mavericks successful the Western Conference Finals.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is anticipated to beryllium astatine the forefront of the Thunder's charge, starring the squad successful scoring and assists. Australian sensation Josh Giddey is besides predicted to play a pivotal role, delivering triple-doubles and showcasing his precocious hoops IQ, portion Jalen Williams is acceptable to marque important contributions connected some ends of the court.

Thunder's caput manager Mark Daigneault continues to impress, earning monolithic respect from his players, including Gilgeous-Alexander, who has been with him since his determination from the LA Clippers successful 2019. "I consciousness similar he's the aforesaid guy. He's hoops astute obviously," Gilgeous-Alexander praised. "He's humble. He commands the country successful a humbling way. Guys respect him due to the fact that of that."

"Now obviously, his X's and O's, helium keeps learning similar everyone other does, but helium has remained the aforesaid and accordant passim the full process," helium added. "Through the winning and losing, and I deliberation that's what makes him special."

OKC has mostly stayed injury-free implicit the past 2 seasons but they've had immoderate struggles this offseason and preseason. Daigneault is committed to utilizing his squad successful its entirety. "We person a strategy that tin crook to whoever is connected the court," Daigneault said.

"Part of wherefore you bash that is if you instrumentality injuries, you don't person to alteration thing based connected who's disposable and who's not. But wrong that system, each idiosyncratic player's benignant and strengths hopefully tin flower."

He added: "We're going to beryllium explorational, I would say. But not due to the fact that (Hartenstein's) out. That's conscionable the mode we attack the opening of the play and passim the play anyway. We're decidedly going to bash that arsenic we've done successful the past."

The past clip the Thunder won an NBA Championship was each the mode backmost successful 1979, and it's their lone rubric to date. Back then, the Thunder were known arsenic the Seattle SuperSonics earlier their relocation to Oklahoma City successful 2008. The SuperSonics could marque a comeback successful Seattle successful the adjacent 2 years, though, arsenic the NBA eyes a two-team expansion. Seattle and Las Vegas are 2 starring candidates for caller franchises, expanding the league to 32.