The NBA playoffs standings and schedule for 2014 has the Memphis Grizzlies and Oklahoma City Thunder playing and the start time is at 8 pm and the TV channel for the game comes from TNT and it will have a live stream online as the teams play Game 6, while the Indiana Pacers and Atlanta Hawks also play and both series are at 3-2 and can end with Memphis and Atlanta into the second found if they win at 4-2 on Thursday night.
The Hawks and Pacers will be the first of two games on the TNT doubleheader and that will be streaming online as well from TNT Overtime and is a huge game for Durant and Russell Westbrook, as the Thunder lost their series to the Grizzlies last season in the second round and this has been a hard fought series with close matchups and overtime games. The Grizzlies took Game 5 and now they have the chance to end the series up 3-2 and that would be a disappointing exit for a Thunder team that thinks they can win the championship.
The last game on Thursday night has the Los Angeles Clippers taking on the Golden State Warriors and that will be at Oracle Arena and starts up at 10:30 pm ET as the second game of the doubleheader. Chris Paul and Blake Griffin have been under the microscope since the Donald Sterling situation and now the team has the chance to advance and that would keep some of the focus off the players, as they could then wait until the first round is over before playing again and that could give Doc Rivers the time he needs to get things in order. The Sterling situation has taken away from the first round, which has been one of the best in NBA history.
The games on Wednesday night set up the Friday schedule and now that the Brooklyn Nets have lost Game 5 to the Toronto Raptors, they will be looking to even things up at 3-3 to force a Game 7 in the series. The San Antonio Spurs won over the Dallas Mavericks and now they are up 3-2, while the Houston Rockets pulled away from the Portland Trail Blazers to stay alive and now they trail 3-2 in the series with Game 6 coming on Friday night and that will be on ESPN. The network has three games, with the Spurs and Mavs on ESPN at 8 pm and the Nets-Raptors on ESPN2 at 7 pm.
The Memphis Grizzlies won against the Oklahoma City Thunder after the fourth overtime game of that series and things were close at the end but Kevin Durant couldn't sink the final shot. The end of the game was odd, as a referee totally interrupted Durant on the foul line after making the first of two free throw attempts, taking the ball away aggressively and then stopping play to yell at the scorers table before having Durant shoot again.
Durant had the chance to tie things up, but he clearly was taken out of his rhythm and he ended up missing it and then after getting the ball back Durant missed a three. The Thunder had the chance to get a tip in at the end of the game that appeared to win it at the buzzer, but the refs looked at the video and ruled that the shot was no good. Now the series returns to Memphis and has the team up 3-2 and they have the chance to eliminate the Thunder for the second year in a row.
Check here for the NBA playoffs TV schedule and channel coverage for the postseason.
