OKLAHOMA CITY — Aaron Gordon will always answer a teammate’s phone call.

Two days after they swept the Los Angeles Clippers off the court in a lopsided Game 7, the Nuggets stole the home-court advantage from the No. 1-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder, with Gordon making his second game-winner of the postseason, this time from distance.

T he Oklahoma City Thunder seemed to be well on their way to a rather stress-free Game 1 victory over the Denver Nuggets in Game 1 of a Western Conference semifinals series before