Jan 11, 2019

1/11/2019 12:22:00 AM
It will go down if you missed it arguably the game of the year up to date in "Logo Watch" as the San Antonio Spurs outlast the Oklahoma City Thunder 154-147.  The game itself took two extra frames to decide as it had all theatrics a 50-point scorer, a triple-double, dagger after dagger, big shot after big shot and more importantly Spurs lead man Gregg Popovich passes the legend Utah Jazz lead man Jerry Sloan for 3rd All-Time in NBA W's!

O.K.C. was down just 70-63 at the half but they knew they were in a track meet. That Spurs lead ballooned to a dozen after three 105-93 as LaMarcus Aldridge had already put his stamp on the game with 30 points.

The Regulators faced their biggest margin all game long early in the 4th down 110-97 as Paul George (30 pts 8 rebs 3 stls) led the O.K.C. Starters pulled together to go on a 33-20 run to close the frame and the game all knotted up at 130-130.

Thunder PF/SF Jerami Grant netted a career-high 25 points with a dozen boards. It was Spurs Rookie Derrick White from the "Buffs" of Colorado Boulder by way of Division II Colorado-Colorado Springs where he was a Division II All-American before transferring to CU Boulder had 23 points with DeMar DeRozan adding 16 points and eleven helpers to go along with eight boards.

The night though belonged to LaMarcus Aldridge as L-Train dropped a career-high 56 points with nine boards as he went 20-33 from the field and 16 for 16 from the stripe. That Spurs Bench helped tremendously with Marco Belinelli scoring 19 points and Patty Mills chipping in with 14.

It came down to too much L-Train as O.K.C. missed key shots and empty possessions late in the 2nd extra.  Russell Westbrook went Nut Factory for O.K.C. with 24 points and 24 assists and thirteen boards as Terrence Ferguson dba O.K.C. Ferg added 21 points all money balls.

Spurs move to 25-18 as O.K.C. has slowed a bit dropping to 25-16...  

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