This is why everyone loves a Game 7, but it's also a lot of pressure. After the game, Thunder guard Alex Caruso told reporters that it is beyond normal to feel the stakes. "If you don't feel anything leading up to it, you're probably like a serial killer, you know?" Caruso said. "You need to be checked out."

Alex Caruso plays basketball like he’s trying to score a $50,000 bonus from Dana White. That said, the Nuggets probably could use, at minimum, two of him. Or two more of something relatively close to him if they’re to get the Joker another title in Denver before the horse is out of the barn.

After Sunday's Game 7, stellar reserve Thunder guard Alex Caruso explained exactly how the Nuggets made the Thunder better over seven games. He said they made Oklahoma City mentally tougher to understand what winning in the postseason takes. In effect, in a matchup of two bona fide championship contenders, iron sharpened iron: