The San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder have been on a postseason collision course for months, and they will finally meet in the NBA Playoffs.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City finished the regular season 64-18 to win the No. 1 seed in the West. San Antonio went 62-20 to earn the No. 2 seed.<\/p>\n
The Thunder swept their first two playoff opponents, the Phoenix Suns (4-0) and the Los Angeles Lakers (4-0). The Spurs knocked off the Portland Trail Blazers (4-1) and Minnesota Timberwolves (4-2) to advance to the conference finals.<\/p>\n
Now the top two seeds in the West will meet in the NBA Western Conference Finals.<\/p>\n
The Silver and Black enter with confidence. San Antonio dominated the regular-season series, beating the Thunder in 4 of 5 games.<\/p>\n
The teams met five times because of the NBA Cup. That was the first meeting between the two, and the Spurs won 111-109, knocking the Thunder out in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
San Antonio won the next two games 130-110 and 117-102, before falling in the fourth game 119-98. The Spurs closed out the regular season series with a 116-106 win. Oklahoma City sat all five starters in that game due to injuries.<\/p>\n
San Antonio won both home games at Frost Bank Center and went 1-1 at Paycom Center, home of the Thunder. The NBA Cup game was played in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Each side has a regular-season MVP finalist \u2014 Spurs big man Victor Wembanyama and Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama played in all five games against Oklahoma City and averaged 18.4 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game.<\/p>\n
Gilgeous-Alexander faced the Spurs four times and averaged 29.5 points and 5.5 assists while shooting nearly 51% from the floor.<\/p>\n
The Spurs and Thunder last met in the 2015-16 Western Conference Semifinals, a series won by the Thunder 4-2. That series featured the final game of Spurs legend Tim Duncan.<\/p>\n
Much has changed since that series, and now the two franchises will battle for the right to advance to the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n
As the top seed, the Thunder will have home-court advantage in this best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n
Game 1 is set for 7:30 p.m. on Monday, May 18, in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n
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