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The Thunder travel to New Orleans on Easter Sunday today to take on the Pelicans in what should be (should be) a tight playoff-style battle between the two squads who are fighting to stay within playoff contention. The Thunder and Pelicans have both lost 3 games in a row, sliding from higher in the standings to now barely holding on.
The Thunder are coming off a brutal back-to-back stretch where they lost to the Spurs and Nuggets, and each game was one where they had a lead late in the game. But through miscues, missed free throws, and overall inattentiveness to detail, could not hang on and now find themselves on the verge of getting bounced out completely, as their next two games are against the Warriors and Rockets.