"This, by far, was the toughest test yet.

On the road, in a hostile environment, against a dominant home team — a team that is the only club that can claim it has beaten the Thunder in Oklahoma City.

And though it took the first overtime period of the season to get it done, the Thunder finally finished off the Portland Trail Blazers with a 111-107 victory on Monday night inside the Rose Garden.

Kevin Garnett would approve if you deemed it a bar fight.

By surviving, the Thunder bumped its league-best record to 19-5 and moved to 10-4 on the road after an uncharacteristically poor showing two nights earlier at San Antonio."