An NBA playoff series is a fundamentally unstable entity. We enter each one with expectations and then Game 1 blows all of them up. Coaches adjust on the fly. By the time Game 2 a

Safe to say the Thunder passed its first test of the playoffs. Oklahoma City mauled Memphis 131-80 Sunday to take a 1-0 lead in the Western Conference first-round series.

The Thunder beat the Grizzlies, 131-80, in Game 1 of their first-round Western Conference playoff series on Sunday, the fifth-biggest margin of victory in NBA postseason history. The 51-point margin was seven points shy of the record and was the largest Game 1 win in NBA playoff history.