The Oklahoma City Thunder will play their penultimate pre-playoff bubble game against the Miami Heat on Wednesday.
With a 43-27 record, the Thunder are still in a fight for playoff seeding and could land anywhere from fourth to sixth.
Here is how to watch and stream the game:
Opponent: Miami Heat
Date and time: Aug. 12, 7 p.m. CT
How to watch: FOX Sports Oklahoma
Matchup between the two this season
Oklahoma City and Miami have only faced off once this season.
It wasn’t much of a contest. The Heat scored 41 first-quarter points and then matched the Thunder through the next two quarters, giving Oklahoma City a 115-108 loss.
The Thunder were without Steven Adams, who had a right knee injury. In his place was Nerlens Noel, who had missed the previous six contests with a left ankle sprain. He played just 21 minutes.
Danilo Gallinari scored a team-high 27 for the Thunder, and Dennis Schroder had 18 points, eight assists and seven rebounds in 37 minutes off the bench.
Meanwhile, seven of the nine Miami players who saw the court scored double-digit points.
Miami signed Jimmy Butler this offseason and traded Hassan Whiteside to make room for budding youngster Bam Adebayo to enter the starting lineup. It worked masterfully, as both Butler and Adebayo made the All-Star team and Miami became one of the better Eastern Conference teams.
The team had huge success with rookies Kendrick Nunn and Tyler Herro, and second-year player Duncan Robinson has been a 3-point revelation.
Entering Wednesday’s game, the Heat are in fourth place in the Eastern Conference with a 44-27 record. They lost their progress toward the third seed and are locked into either the fourth or fifth seed, as they have a one-game lead over the Indiana Pacers and own the tiebreaker over the Philadelphia 76ers, who are two games back.