The Indiana Pacers have already secured their ticket to the playoffs and the Oklahoma City Thunder is very close to sealing it, but the reality is that both teams have come less in the final stretch of the 2019 season of the NBA, luxury that can not be give, particularly those of Indiana, if they do not want to lose positions that may be key at the time of planting for the postseason as teams like the Boston Celtics threaten them.
The Chesapeake Energy Arena will receive on Wednesday the two programs with the worst record in the last 10 games that appear among the best 16 in the league as both Pacers and Thunder will reach this clash with record of 4-6 that has seen as Oklahoma City fell to seventh place in the Western Conference, but Indiana has not been affected so much as it continues in the fourth position in the East.
Just a couple of weeks ago these teams met at Indiana Bankers Life Fieldhouse in a game that stayed on the side of the locals by a tight score of 108-106 despite 36 points by Paul George for visitors, but Domantas Sabonis, from the bench responded by the Pacers with 26 units that were backed by the 23 points Bojan Bogdanovic to stay with the victory.Indiana, on that occasion, had a great second half and in the fourth quarter were able to limit 18 goals to his opponent in the last rto, which finally tipped the scales in the duel.