You're locked on Warriors, your daily Golden State Warriors podcast. I am Daniel were your host and so happy to bring you your team every day. I wanted to do something a little bit different with this episode. It was a concept I came up with a while ago and was kind of waiting not only for more information, but to kind of clear up my own thoughts on the issue. And so what I wanted to do was rank the Warriors potential Western Conference

playoffs opponents. I'm not including the East, partially because I want to get a firmer grasp on

exactly what's going on in Cleveland right now, and partially just because there are so many East

teams and only one of them, even if the Warriors make the finals, we'll make it there. So I didn't

want to go nuts on that part of it yet. But what

this podcast is is it's ranking the potential Western Conference playoff teams in terms of

desirability for facing the Warriors. And as you would guess, there are some logistical challenge

with this just in terms of health and other things like that. They're mitigating factors

and extenuating circumstances and everything else. But I still wanted to do it. I thought it was a

fun exercise and I'm going to go from most favorable to least favorable. I thought that would be

interesting. Both ways have plenty of intrigue. And the way I'm doing it is any team that I feel has a

realistic chance of making the playoffs. Because once you're in, you never know how it's going to shake out

and everything like that. So for me, the number one most desirable team is not one that a lot of

people would expect considering they're not going to get the eight seed. They're probably not

even going to get the seven seed. But that's the Oklahoma City Thunder. And the Thunder are a fabulous story. I still have Russell

Westbrook as my personal MVP at this point, though I reserve the right to change it because it's so

close that I'm still figuring everything out. But the reason for the Thunder, there are a couple

big ones. One is they have shown a lot of trouble scoring against the Warriors and unlike some other

teams, there are structural issues there in terms of shooting, in terms of personnel that are

not going to get better this year.

The Thunder have also played pretty poorly.

They've gotten worked by the Warriors every time they played this year.

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