Scotty Pippen Jr. learned that the hard way in the fourth quarter when he attempted to cut off OKC's All-Star forward on a fastbreak. Williams brushed the undersized defender off with ease, sending him flying, before he stopped on a dime for a 3-pointer that found the bottom of the net.

The Thunder are the first of eight teams to advance to the NBA playoffs' second round. In a Round 1 series that got competitively closer with each game, they did just enough to su

With OKC having completed its first round in a four-game sweep by April 26, that could mean 7-10 days between games — that gap coming after a series in which there was a single off-day in between each game.