The Oklahoma City Thunder have swept the season series with the Boston Celtics but each game was a great display of basketball. The NBA would be lucky if each team can navigate to the NBA Finals.

The challenge come June could be OKC. That might not be the best result for the Celtics, but it would be the best series for basketball fans.

Could we realistically see a Boston Celtics - Los Angeles Lakers NBA finals this season? Not too long ago, such a proposition would have seemed dubious at best, with the Celtics repeat champs but Los Angeles struggling to put the right pieces around an aging but still excellent LeBron James.