The NBA Finals start between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers on Thursday, and it's a series that matters to the Golden State Warriors of the past and future.

In fact, the series hasn't even started, and the Warriors are already in the crosshairs.

Well before Game 1, ESPN already compared the Thunder to the last NBA dynasty - the Warriors. The similarities, ESPN's Zach Kram wrote, were "startling."

Well, the premise might be.

Yes, before the Thunder have won a game in the Finals, much less won a title or the multiple titles required to have the "dynasty" word tossed around, they're getting prime-era Warriors comps.

And while the Thunder's organic (and Clippers-aided) rise has been fantastic - leading, obviously, to fantastical prognostications - if there is one thing w

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