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The Thunder are counting down now, with two games to go in the regular season and their playoff seeding still very much up in the air. While the chance of a 5th seed is barely a whisper of hope at this point, until probability becomes certainty and Utah wins one out of its two remaining games, OKC has a chance.
And it starts with our friends the Houston Rockets, forever bound in basketball history.
Perhaps it was inevitability with the way this season has unfolded, that the Thunder, who have essentially flip-flopped positions over the course of the past 60 games, now are staring at a regular season ending and a highly probable playoff matchup against Houston.