Oklahoma City Thunder (64-18, first in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (62-20, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Antonio; Thursday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Spurs -3.5; over\/under is 218.5<\/p>\n
WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: Thunder lead series 3-2<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Oklahoma City Thunder look to clinch the series over the San Antonio Spurs in game six of the Western Conference finals. The Thunder defeated the Spurs 127-114 in the last meeting on Wednesday. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 32 points, and Stephon Castle led the Spurs with 24.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 36-16 against Western Conference opponents. San Antonio has an 8-5 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Thunder have gone 41-11 against Western Conference opponents. Oklahoma City is third in the Western Conference scoring 119.0 points per game and is shooting 48.4%.<\/p>\n
The Spurs make 48.3% of their shots from the field this season, which is 4.6 percentage points higher than the Thunder have allowed to their opponents (43.7%). The Thunder are shooting 48.4% from the field, 3.3% higher than the 45.1% the Spurs’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Victor Wembanyama is averaging 25 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 3.1 blocks for the Spurs. Devin Vassell is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 31.1 points and 6.6 assists for the Thunder. Alex Caruso is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 6-4, averaging 118.2 points, 49.0 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 9.5 steals and 7.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Thunder: 8-2, averaging 117.9 points, 40.9 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 10.2 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n
Thunder: Ajay Mitchell: out (calf), Jalen Williams: out (hamstring), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder (64-18, first in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (62-20, second in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6539,89148,82,84,83,154],"class_list":["post-310402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}