Oklahoma City Thunder | Game #34 Preview: San Antonio Spurs

The Oklahoma City Thunder should be fresh on Tuesday night as they are coming off three days of rest following a 128-125 overtime loss to the New Orleans Pelicans at home on Friday night. The Spurs are in town less than 24 hours after defeating the Utah Jazz 126-122 in San Antonio.

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After a few days off, the Thunder returns to action to take on the San Antonio Spurs. OKC will look to apply high-pressure defense and efficient offensive possessions, against a disciplined Spurs squad. @NickAGallo and @ParisNLawson provide today's @OUHealth Game Day Report 📝 pic.twitter.com/0lTHDUWkzB

— OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) December 27, 2022

These two teams met on November 30th, a 119-112 victory for the Thunder, who was missing Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at the time. The Spurs are a young team who are struggling to find their way, while OKC looks like they are on the brink of figuring things out and turning into a real threat on any given night.

Game Details

Tip-Off: 7 PM CT

Location: Paycom Center (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)

Television: Bally Sports Oklahoma

Radio: WWLS 98.1FM OKC The Sports Animal

Twitter: Follow @ZacharyLowNBA for live tweets and discussion during the game

Game Notes: Oklahoma City Thunder Official Game Notes, San Antonio Spurs Official Game Notes

Projected Starters

Thunder

• PG: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
• SG: Josh Giddey
• SF: Luguentz Dort
• PF: Jalen Williams
• C: Aleksej Pokusevski

Spurs

• PG: Tre Jones
• SG: Devin Vassell
• SF: Keldon Johnson
• PF: Jeremy Sochan
• C: Jakob Poeltl

Injury Report

Thunder

• Ousmane Dieng is OUT (non-displaced fractured right wrist).
• Chet Holmgren is OUT (right foot surgery).
• Eugene Omoruyi is OUT (G League — two-way).
• Jeremiah Robinson-Earl is OUT (sprained right ankle).
• Lindy Waters is OUT (G League — two-way).
• Jaylin Williams is OUT (G League — on assignment).

Spurs

• Dominick Barlow is OUT (G League — two-way).
• Keldon Johnson is QUESTIONABLE (lower back tightness).
• Doug McDermott is QUESTIONABLE (right knee soreness).
• Blake Wesley is OUT (G League — on assignment).

Head-to-Head

• Since arriving in Oklahoma City in 2008, the Thunder is 22-28 against the Spurs in the regular season (15-11 at home, 7-17 away) and 10-8 against them in the playoffs (7-2 at home, 3-6 away).
• Since arriving in Oklahoma City, the Thunder has won the season series with the Spurs twice, lost it 4 times, and tied 7 times.
• The Thunder went 1-3 against the Spurs last season (1-1 at home, 0-2 on the road).
• The Thunder is 1-0 agains the Spurs so far this season (1-0 at home, 0-0 on the road).