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Top stats to know: Oklahoma City Thunder vs Golden State Warriors in Game 7

The Warriors pursuit of history continues with Monday night’s Game 7 against a Thunder team looking to shake off two missed opportunities to close out this Western Conference finals. Here are the top stats to know ahead of Monday night’s series decider.

History is on the Warriors' side -- except when it isn’t

The good news for the Warriors: Home teams are 100-24 in Game 7s all-time and the top-seeded team is 28-3 in home Game 7s.

Also in the Warriors favor? Teams with the MVP on the team are 26-5 all-time in Game 7s, with 17 straight wins.

So that’s the good. The bad? Teams to have trailed 3-1 in the conference finals have lost 25 straight series.

The Warriors are also the seventh defending champion in NBA history to win Game 6 on the road when facing elimination. That momentum hasn't always equaled a series win, as the three previous defending champs to do it all lost in Game 7.

Teams to trail 3-1 in postseason series are 9-223 in NBA postseason history, a win percentage of 0.039. The last team to overcome such a deficit was the Rockets in the conference semifinals last season against the Clippers.

Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson

Stephen Curry needs to make four 3-pointers to set the record for most in a single series in NBA history. He has 25, and the record is 28, done 3 times, most recently by fellow Splash Brother Klay Thompson in this year’s conference semis.

Curry has done it on the defensive end too as Russell Westbrook is shooting 8-for-26 with seven turnovers with Curry as his primary defender.

Thompson had 41 points in the Warriors’ Game 6 win, the most in a road game when facing elimination since LeBron James had 45 points in Game 6 of the 2012 Eastern Conference finals at Boston. He became the fourth player in the past 50 years to have 40 points in a road elimination game in the conference finals or later. The others are LeBron James, George Gervin and Julius Erving. James and Thompson were the only ones who did so in a winning effort.

Thompson also helped shut down the Thunder stars in Game 6, holding Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook to 5-for-17 shooting and 14 points.

Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook

Kevin Durant has scored at least 25 points in all six games of this series. The only two players to score 25 or more points in each of seven conference finals games are LeBron James in 2012 and Michael Jordan in 1998. Both of them went on to win the title.

Kevin Durant has scored 72 points in his two previous Game 7 appearances. According to Elias Sports Bureau research, his 36.0 points per game in Game 7s is the highest scoring average in NBA history by any player with multiple Game 7s.

He’s also been a great defender, holding opposing players to 19-for-66 shooting (29 percent) as the primary defender, including 2-for-10 with 3 turnovers in Game 6.

As for Russell Westbrook, he’s on pace to become the fourth player in NBA history to average 25 points, 10 assists, and 5 rebounds per game in a single postseason, joining Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas. Westbrook has played in 17 games. None of the others played in more than nine.

He also is outperforming the reigning MVP in this series. He currently has more points, rebounds, and assists than Stephen Curry in these conference finals. Since 1985, only two players have had more points, rebounds, and assists than that season’s MVP – Hakeem Olajuwon in the 1995 Western Conference finals against David Robinson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the 1985 Finals against Larry Bird.

Westbrook is providing for his teammates as well. He has 66 assists in this series while the rest of the team has 61. The Thunder have shot 59 percent off passes from Westbrook in the series, including 11-20 in Game 6. On passes from all other players, the Thunder shot 5-for-15 in Game 6.

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