After their last-second win over the Sacramento Kings, the Oklahoma City Thunder clung to the fifth spot in the Western Conference with a 34 and 26 record. However, for a short time after Russell Westbrook hit the “winning” shot just as the final buzzer sounded Thunder fans experienced a few minutes of apprehension when a scoring snafu at NBA.com reported the game as a 113 to 110 loss and not a 110 to 107 win.
The mistake was corrected, but for a short time the standings in the NBA Western Conference looked like this:
So precarious is the place the Thunder find themselves in, had that loss stood, they would have dropped two spots from 5th to 7th.