Tonight marks the start of the OKC Thunder embarking on arguably their most difficult schedule segment. OKC will play 11 teams either currently seeded or fighting for postseason berths. Moreover, five of those matches feature teams currently seeded in the top three of their respective conferences.
How the OKC Thunder navigate this segment of their schedule will determine if they make the playoffs. More importantly it will determine what seed they will garner.
Just to emphasize how volatile the west is Thursday morning the bottom four seeds in the west were the Pelicans, Wolves, Clippers and Jazz.