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Thunder claps ring out over San Antonio in the NBA playoffs

Thunder claps ring out over San Antonio in the NBA playoffs
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By Christopher Cummins
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Once again at the AT&T Center San Antonio Spurs fans saw their side suffer another defeat in the NBA Western Conference playoff semifinals.

Once again at the AT&T Center San Antonio Spurs fans saw their side suffer another defeat in the NBA Western Conference playoff semifinals.
After a unbeaten regular season at home the Spurs have lost twice against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Conversely it was the Spurs who started well and led deep into the match.

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Russell Westbrook leads the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 3-2 Series lead over the San Antonio Spurs! pic.twitter.com/YZ9XWzuYrk

— NBA Stats (StatisticsNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/StatisticsNBA/status/730224262494232577">May 11, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <b></b>Oklahoma never relented and thanks to Russell Westbrook, a thorn in the side of the Spurs all night, with 35 points and Kevin Durant with 23 they overhauled the home side with a gritty showing. <b></b> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"tw-align-center data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Oklahoma City Thunder 95 - 91 San Antonio Spurs <a href="https://t.co/8YRGBgalwg">pic.twitter.com/8YRGBgalwg</a></p>&mdash; NBA Günlükleri (NBAGunlukleri) May 11, 2016

San Antonio led 88-82 with four minutes on the clock.
Then the Thunder struck to claim a 95-91 victory and a 3-2 lead in the best of seven sereis.
Oklahoma can seal the deal at home in game six on Thursday.

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