NBA Playoff Schedule 2016: Thursday’s Game Time, TV Info, Odds and More

Golden State booked a spot in the Western Conference Finals with a 125-121 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night. On Thursday, the Oklahoma City Thunder will look to match that effort with a win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of their series.

The Thunder are up three games to two courtesy of stellar outings from the two usual suspects—Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook—some questionable officiating, Serge Ibaka’s three-point surge and two wins in San Antonio. That’s right, two wins at the AT&T Center in the span of eight days. The Spurs dropped just one measly game at home during the entire regular season. 

Thursday’s contest should be a good one as the Spurs fight for playoff survival. Tipoff is at 8:30 p.m. ET. ESPN will be broadcasting the contest, with live streaming available at WatchESPN.

Despite being on the road, Odds Shark lists the Spurs as slight favorites (-1.5). The odds alone are a testament to their ability and this hard-fought, dramatic series which has often been won on razor-thin margins (though not quite as close as the consistent overtime battles waged between Toronto and Miami).

The over-under for the game is listed as 195.5.Preview

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As Bleacher Report’s Howard Beck discusses in the video above, the Spurs’ dynastic trio of Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker have only been intermittently effective in this series. 

Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge have done most of the heavy lifting, and it’s a testament to the coaching ability of Gregg Popovich that this has been a rather seamless transition of power from the old guard to the new. Duncan has looked especially ragged, …

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