Is this Billy Donovan’s best year of coaching in the NBA? It’s too early to make any conclusions, but leading indicators say yes. Donovan won 55 games in his first season in Oklahoma City in 2015-16 and guided the Thunder to the Western Conference finals, where they lost in seven games to the Golden State Warriors. But Donovan inherited a superstar in Kevin Durant, and the Thunder were only two years removed from a 59-win season in which they lost in the conference finals to the San Antonio Spurs. After Durant left for the Warriors, Donovan took the Thunder to the playoffs the next four years….
