Thunder vs. Pelicans: February 6, 2015
Regular season game
For whatever reason, NBA only has two available games in these free archives after the 2010 Finals: A November 2010 Kevin Love 30-30 game, and this February 2015 game featuring the New Orleans Pelicans and Oklahoma City Thunder.
Yeah, we’re not sure why they went from playoff classics to these regular-season games either.
But it was an exciting one! Russell Westbrook and Anthony Davis went back and forth! Westbrook ended up with 48 points, 11 assists, and nine rebounds. He put what would have been a cherry on top when he got fouled on a 3-point attempt down three points with 1.2 seconds remaining and drilled all of them to tie the game.
But Davis stole the show as he drilled the buzzer-beater 3-pointer to give the Pelicans a 116-113 victory.
Setting the stage: Don’t read this next sentence if you’re still upset about the 1994 game in the last section: This loss proved crucial in the 2015 playoff race. The top seven teams in the Western Conference had 50 wins or more.
The eighth-seed Pelicans went 45-37. The ninth-seed Thunder went 45-37. New Orleans won the tiebreaker.
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